Emerging Cancer Health Disparities - Dr. Gomez
Descriptive Epidemiology Seminar Series
January 23, 2020 | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
NCI Shady Grove Seminar TE406 Rockville, M.D.
Speaker
Scarlett Lin Gomez, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Genetics,
University of California San Francisco
Description
Dr. Scarlett Lin Gomez is an epidemiologist with research interests in the role of social determinants of health, including race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, immigration status, sociocultural factors, and neighborhood contextual characteristics, on health outcomes. She is also Director of the Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry, a part of the California Cancer Registry and the NCI Surveillance Epidemiology End Results (SEER) Program. She has contributed surveillance data regarding cancer incidence and outcome patterns and trends for distinct Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander and Hispanic ethnic groups, as well as cancer patterns by nativity status and neighborhood characteristics. She developed the California Neighborhoods Data System, a compilation of small-area level data on social and built environment characteristics, and has used these data in more than a dozen funded studies to evaluate the impact of social and built neighborhood environment factors on disease outcomes.
Host
Meredith Shiels, Ph.D. M.H.S., Investigator, Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI
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