Faculty

Primary Faculty

Paige Bracci, PhD, MPH, MS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology


Alison Cohen, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
  • Lifecourse
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • health equity, adolescent and young adult health, social determinants of health, community-based participatory research, program and policy evaluation, environmental health justice, research-practice partnerships


Robert Hiatt

Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
  • Global Health
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Robert Hiatt is Associate Director for Population Science at Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research interests include: cancer epidemiology, especially breast cancer, cancer prevention & screening, health inequities, health services & outcomes research, social determinants of cancer, environmental health research, environmental exposures in early development related to cancer, mathematical modeling of cancer, global health science


Peggy Reynolds, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Peggy Reynolds, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
  • Lifecourse

Research Interests:
  • The role of physical/occupational environmental exposures and windows of susceptibility on cancer risk.


Salma Shariff-Marco, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Salma Shariff-Marco, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Understanding the role of social determinants of health in shaping and perpetuating health disparities, how neighborhood characteristics (e.g., social, built, and physical environment attributes) and geographic variation may shape cancer-related health behaviors and outcomes across the cancer continuum


Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Understanding the impact of diagnostic testing on important patient outcomes and understanding the difference in access to different tests and variance in accuracy of these tests, the risk of cancer associated with incidental findings identified on ultrasound and CT imaging, and assessing patterns of radiation from diagnostic imaging


Lydia Zablotska, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
  • Global Health