2024 Cancer Health Disparities Fellows' Research Award Winner Announced
, by Elise Tookmanian, Ph.D.
Jennifer McGee-Avila, Ph.D., M.P.H., C.H.E.S., C.P.H., postdoctoral fellow in the Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch, received the 2024 Cancer Health Disparities Fellows' Research Award for her proposal, "Structural and Social Determinants of Cancer Among U.S. Incarcerated Populations: An Investigation of Cancer Incidence, Mortality, and Trends.”
The DCEG Cancer Health Disparities Research Award encourages postdoctoral trainees to initiate new and highly innovative cancer disparity and/or minority health research projects that they will continue into their independent research careers. Winners of the DCEG Cancer Health Disparities Research Award receive up to $75,000 of supplemental funding.