Faculty & Staff

Lorna H. McNeill, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Cullen Trust Health Care Chair in Health Disparities Research
Professor and Chair, Department of Health Disparities Research
Associate Director, Cancer Health Disparities and Community Outreach
Director, Center for Community-Engaged Translational Research

Research Interests: increasing physical activity among racial/ethnic minorities as a mechanism to reduce cancer risk

Executive Assistant: Daphne Coney

Karen Basen-Engquist, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor

Research Interests: health behavior, exercise, cancer survivors and quality of life

Shine Chang, Ph.D.
Term Tenure Professor

Research Interests: obesity and cancer risk, health scientist training and education, cancer prevention and education, career development and scientific writing

Dalnim Cho, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Research Interests: cancer survivorship and control and reducing cancer
disparities among underserved populations, exploring the interplay
of individual, social and environmental factors to better understand health
and behavior changes in underserved cancer survivors

Qian Lu, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor

Research Interests: creating brief, scalable, and resource-efficient behavioral interventions, such as expressive writing and narrative videos, as well as multilevel strategies addressing social determinants of health, including peer support and access

Scherezade K. Mama, Dr.P.H.
Assistant Professor

Margaret Raber, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Research Interests: cancer survivor lifestyle and wellness, community nutrition, Food Is Medicine, modifiable risk factors for cancer, and community outreach and engagement

Surendranath S. Shastri, M.D., D.Ph.
Professor

Larkin L. Strong, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor

Research Interests: cancer prevention, behavioral lifestyle interventions, community-engaged research, physical and social environmental context, and exercise/physical activity

Dede Teteh-Brooks, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Research Interests: breast and lung cancer survivorship, biobehavioral community interventions and implementation science