Quiera S. Booker, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Quiera Booker, Ph.D., M.P.H., joined the NCI in 2023 as a postdoctoral fellow in the Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch (ITEB). She is also an iCURE Scholar through the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities, where she is mentored by Dr. LeeAnn Bailey.

Dr. Booker earned a B.S. in chemistry with a concentration in biochemistry from Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia, in 2017. She completed her M.P.H (2020) and Ph.D. (2023) at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health. Dr. Booker's graduate studies research portfolio focused on breast cancer survivorship care utilization among underserved patient populations. In her dissertation, she explored the effects of sociocultural factors, race, and ethnicity on the relationship between motherhood and receipt of treatment among breast cancer patients.

She has received several awards, including the NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE), NCI's Professional Development Workshop and Mentored Mock Review Outstanding Poster Award, American Association for Cancer Research Integrative Molecular Epidemiology Workshop Training Award, and American Society for Preventive Oncology (ASPO) Disparities Special Interest Group Outstanding Poster Award.

In ITEB, Dr. Booker is integrating her molecular and social epidemiology expertise to study breast cancer disparities under the co-mentorship of Jonine Figueroa, Ph.D., M.P.H., NIH Distinguished Scholar and senior investigator, and Gretchen Gierach, Ph.D., M.P.H., ITEB Director and senior investigator.