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Glorian Sorensen
Glorian Sorensen, PhD, MPH, is Director of the Center for Community-Based Research and of the Office for Faculty Development at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health in the Harvard School of Public Health. The core of Dr. Sorensen's research is randomized worksite- and community-based studies that test the effectiveness of theory-driven interventions targeting individual and organizational change. These interventions are designed particularly to be effective for low income, multiethnic populations, including blue- and pink-collar workers. These behavioral interventions are embedded in the social context or environment in which people live. Her research has focused on a range of community settings, including worksites, labor unions, and low-income housing developments.
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Karen Emmons
Karen M. Emmons, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a faculty member in the Center for Community-Based Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She is also the Deputy Director of CCBR and Associate Director of The Initiative to Eliminate Cancer Disparities (IECD) of DF/HCC. Her research focuses primarily on community-based approaches to cancer prevention and control. Her expertise is in behavior change interventions for several behavioral risk factors, including smoking, passive smoke, sun exposure, diet, and exercise. She is also interested in cancer disparities.
Karen Emmons webpage
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Jennifer D. Allen
Jennifer D. Allen, ScD, MPH, RN is Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Harvard School of Public Health. She began her career in community health in international and domestic settings, which sparked her interest in the roles of social, economic, and environmental forces on health.
Dr. Allen's research focuses on community-based interventions to promote cancer prevention and control in underserved populations, with an ultimate goal of reducing health disparities. Her intervention work is implemented and disseminated in “non-traditional settings,” such as worksites, churches and neighborhoods. Findings from Dr. Allen’s research have spawned new insights into the role that social networks play in shaping cancer screening behaviors, and have illuminated socio-cultural factors that influence decisional processes regarding the uptake of clinical services (e.g., follow-through with recommendations for diagnostic services after an abnormal mammogram).
Jennifer Allen webpage
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Stacy Gray MD, AM
Stacy Gray MD, AM is a medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, an Associate Physician in Medicine/Oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Gray is also a member of the McGraw/Patterson Center for Population Sciences and a member of the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Dr. Gray completed a fellowship in hematology/medical oncology at the University of Chicago; during her fellowship Dr. Gray focused on cancer risk evaluations in high-risk patient populations and the clinical care of patients with lung cancer. Following her fellowship, Dr. Gray went on to complete post-doctoral training in cancer communications research at the University of Pennsylvania and in cancer outcomes research training at the Institute for Technology Assessment at Massachusetts General Hospital. She also holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Harris School at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Gray’s research interests focus on understanding how population-level communication influences the diffusion and adoption of cancer technologies. Her current research program examines the use of genomic technologies in cancer care and strives to understand how information dissemination may drive the adoption of novel cancer tests and therapies. The ultimate goal of this line of research will be to design interventions that aim to optimize the appropriate use of personalized cancer care.
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Reginald Tucker-Seeley
Reginald Tucker-Seeley, ScD is a Research Associate at the Center for Community-Based Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). From 2008-2010, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the joint Harvard School of Public Health/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Educational Program in Cancer Prevention. Dr. Tucker-Seeley’s research focuses on two areas. First, he is interested in financial well-being across the cancer continuum from prevention to end-of-life care. His work focuses on the measurement of financial well-being as well as investigating the potentially bidirectional relationship between financial well-being and health outcomes across the cancer continuum. Second, he is interested in the measurement of the neighborhood environment in cancer prevention and social epidemiology research. His work in this area focuses on the measurement of neighborhood services and the impact of the neighborhood service/retail environment on health and health behavior.
In addition to his doctoral degree from the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Tucker-Seeley holds a Master’s degree in Health and Social Behavior from HSPH and a Master’s degree in Human Development Counseling from Saint Louis University. He completed a one-year clinical internship in counseling at Washington University in St. Louis. He has also completed pre-doctoral fellowships from the joint Harvard School of Public Health/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Educational Program in cancer prevention, and from the Association of Schools of Public Health/Center for Disease Control.
Dr. Tucker-Seeley currently serves on the Rhode Island Department of Health’s Commission for Health Advocacy and Equity. He is also on the Executive Committee of the Interdisciplinary Consortium on Urban Planning and Public Health (ICUPPH).
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K. Vish Viswanath
K. "Vish" Viswanath, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, a faculty member in the Center for Community-Based Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and director of the Health Communication Core of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC). Dr. Viswanath's research interests include mass communication and social change and health communication in both national and international contexts with particular focus on communication inequities and disparities. He is primarily interested in using a macro-social approach to the study of mass communication and public health.
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