Training opportunities include:

The Harvard School of Public Health Cancer Prevention Fellowship
This program is sponsored jointly by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. It draws on the teaching, scientific research, and field activities of the HSPH, the clinical resources of the DFCI, and the shared laboratory and scientific facilities of both institutions to form the basis for a comprehensive education program in cancer prevention and control.

Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowship Program draws on the rich research environment and intellectual resources of the Harvard School of Public Health. Named for Dr. Alonzo Smythe Yerby, an African-American pioneer in public health, this initiative is geared toward expanding the diversity of those entering academic public health. The program creates a bridge between academic training in health-related disciplines and entry-level faculty positions at institutions throughout the United States. The goal of the program is to advance the intellectual and professional development of each Yerby fellow. Under the guidance of a senior HSPH faculty member with compatible interests, fellows develop their research agendas, gain experience in publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals and obtaining grant support, participate in a variety of professional development workshops, and increase their teaching expertise.

National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Education and Career Development Program (R25T)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) represents the continuation of the Cancer Education and Career Development Program (CECDP) established by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The purpose of the CECDP is to support the development and implementation of institutional curriculum-dependent predoctoral/postdoctoral programs with specific core didactic and research requirements to train a cadre of scientists in interdisciplinary and collaborative cancer research settings. Examples of interdisciplinary/collaborative areas of cancer research that are particularly applicable to intent of the CECDP are cancer prevention and control, behavioral and population sciences, nutrition, imaging, and molecular diagnosis. This FOA makes an NCI-specific use of the NIH Education R25 grant mechanism.


Maria De Jesus
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LW637
Ph: 617-582-7468
Fax: 617.632.5690

Projects currently working on:
1-Coordinated Approach to Cancer (CATCH)
2-Healthy Directions 2 (HD2)
3-HPV vaccine and Parents' Attitudes ad Knowledge
4-Relationship Quality of Clients and Community Health Workers

Primarily interested in health disparities, Dr. De Jesus' research programmatic interests are in health promotion and disease prevention as well as community health education, particularly with low-income immigrant and ethnic families and communities. Her research is motivated by a strong interest in understanding, analyzing, and promoting culturally responsive health interventions. She has a strong background in community-based participatory research approaches, which are particularly useful in forming collaborative partnerships with different stakeholders, including members of marginalized communities whose health is most at risk. Community-based research that centers the perspectives of members of these communities is crucial in advancing a research agenda that contributes to the elimination of socioeconomic and ethnic/racial health disparities.


Bettina Drake
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LW750
Ph: 617-582-7461
Fax: 617-582-7105

Bettina Fisher Drake is a Yerby Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Society Human Development & Health at Harvard School of Public Health and the Center for Community-Based Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.  Her research interests lie in two complimentary areas: 1) explicating the biological and social determinants of cancer that are associated with the racial disparity seen in cancer incidence and mortality; and 2) understanding the social and cultural factors that influence cancer-risk behaviors and, in-turn, cancer outcomes.  Her current research focuses on prostate cancer disparities in early detection, treatment and survival as well as the influence of vitamin D as a preventive measure on prostate and colorectal cancer.  

Current project:  Vitamin D supplementation and cancer risk factors trial


Claudia Pischke
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LW750
Ph: 617-582-8292
Fax: 617-582-7105

Dr Claudia Pischke was trained as a Health Psychologist at the Free University Berlin, Germany, where she received her PhD in Health Psychology in 2008. She performed her dissertation research on the role of health behavior change in secondary prevention of diabetes, coronary heart disease, and heart failure at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, CA. She recently joined Dr. Gary Bennett’s lab, where she is examining weight loss in the ‘Be fit, be well’ trial, a study targeting lower income, ethnic minority participants at risk for heart disease. Her research interests focus on primary and secondary prevention of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease with a specialization in personality and mental health moderators. She also has a strong interest in the role of gender and sex differences.

Lisa Quintiliani
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LW731
Ph: (617)582-7462
Fax: (617)632-4858

Lisa Quintiliani, PhD RD is in her 3rd year of a post-doctoral fellowship under the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program. She has a background in public health and nutrition, graduating from the Nutrition Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006. Her main areas of research interest are multiple health risk behavior interventions, dissemination/implementation research, and use of innovative technologies for intervention development.  Lisa is currently pursuing technology-based, sustainable intervention approaches that will optimally serve nontraditional college students, for example students that work in conjunction with obtaining a bachelors degree, who may have less access to health-related programs compared to traditional college students.  
 
Project: Health and Welfare Fund Study


Grace Sembajwe
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LW731
Ph: (617)582-8365  
Fax: (617)632-4858
NCI-Cancer Prevention and Control Fellow
Grace Sembajwe, ScD, MSc is an occupational epidemiologist and Cancer Prevention Fellow at Harvard School of Public Health. Her research interests include investigating the multifactorial contributors to cancer and early mortality in occupational cohorts, by integrating qualitative and quantitative information about the environment, physiological burden, and exposure modeling with multilevel analysis. Her work has focused on the social patterning of physical, chemical and psychosocial exposures in retail workers, bus drivers, electrical light fixture manufacturers, and meatpackers. She is currently investigating physical impairment and other health effects from exposures to multiple components of job strain with physical and chemical exposures among the GAZEL cohort (a prospective study of gas and electrical workers in France) with INSERM, the French national institute of health and medical research. She is also evaluating biological markers of exposure and pain among direct patient care workers at hospitals and nursing homes, in two workplace and family health studies.

Reginald Tucker-Seeley
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LW747
Ph: (617)582-8321
Education:
BSBA (Accounting), 1995, University of Tulsa
MA (Human Development Counseling), 2002, Saint Louis University
ScM (Health and Social Behavior), 2004, Harvard School of Public Health
ScD (Health and Social Policy), 2009, Harvard School of Public Health

Projects:
Health In Common Study
HSPH Center for Work, Health, and Well-being

Research Interests: 
In addition to further exploring the themes of his dissertation research on financial hardship and health among older adults, Reginald plans to spend his time as a post-doctoral fellow working on the Health In Common Study investigating the association between neighborhood environment and health behavior among low-income housing residents.  In addition, Reginald is developing projects investigating occupational health disparities among older adults working with the HSPH Center for Work, Health, and Well-being.


Helene Tveito
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ph: (617) 582-7463 or (508) 497-0220
fax: (617)632-4858 or (508) 435-8163

Torill Helene Tveito is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Liberty Mutual – Harvard School of Public Health fellowship program. Her background is in dentistry, health psychology, and health promotion. She received her doctoral degree in health psychology from the University of Bergen, Norway. The title of her doctoral thesis was “Sick Leave and Subjective Health Complaints.” The research interests of Dr. Tveito are employee health and life style; subjective health complaints; sick leave; rehabilitation; and stress, coping, and sensitization. Her current main project is development of a workplace self-management group intervention for workers with low back pain. Self-management interventions have been shown effective in different patient groups with chronic pain, but are not targeted towards the challenges of managing low back pain in the work place. The first part of the project was a focus group study to gain knowledge about successful coping and strategies for staying at work. The next part of the project will be to develop a work place self-management intervention based on the literature on this theme and the information from the focus groups; and pilot test it in a work place. Dr. Tveito is also working on the HSPH Center for Work, Health, and Well-being project.



Sherrie Wallington
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LW637
Ph: 617-582-7733
Fax: 617-582-8728

Dr. Sherrie Flynt Wallington is a postdoctoral fellow with the Harvard School of Public Health and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Her research program focuses on three areas of interests, which targets those at greatest risk for cancer disparities. The first area focuses on the cancer information needs, information seeking patterns, and barriers to information seeking. The second area examines the study of new media technologies in the dissemination of cancer information. The third area investigates the effects of mass media in the development, implementation, and evaluation of cancer communication interventions. Previously, Dr. Flynt Wallington served as an adjunct professor at Howard University in the John H. Johnson School of Communications and the Howard University College of Medicine’s Masters in Public Health Program. She also has held teaching and administrative positions at Bowie State University and Winston-Salem State University. She earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dr. Flynt Wallington received her doctoral degree in mass communication and media studies, specializing in health communication from Howard University.