Leticia Nogueira, PhD, MPH
Scientific Director
Health Services Research
At 快猫短视频 since 2017
Leticia Nogueira, PhD, MPH, is the scientific director of health services research in the Surveillance & Health Equity Science department at the American Cancer Society (快猫短视频). Her research focuses on determinants of health disparities in the cancer care continuum that can be addressed by policy changes.
Research focus and accomplishments
Nogueira’s work has contributed to the understanding of how the impacts access to cancer care,?how??and??can impact cancer?, including patients’ access to treatment and?, as well as the overlap between climate change and cancer??and?.
She was selected as one of the inaugural??and has received various awards, including the:
- Woman in Cancer Research and Minority Scholar in Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research
- Fellows Award for Research Excellence from the National Institutes of Health
- Induction into the University of Texas College of Natural Sciences’ Hall of Honors in 2018
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Publications
For a full list of Dr. Nogueira’s publications, see her ?page.?
Contact?
Work before 快猫短视频
- Texas Department of State Health Services
- Director of the Environmental and Injury Epidemiology and Toxicology Unit
- Epidemiology Manager at the Texas Cancer Registry
- National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Cancer Prevention Postdoctoral Fellow
Professional organizations
- Society of Behavioral Medicine; Climate Change, Behavior, and Health Committee; Presidential Working Group Co-chair
- College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Deans Advisory Committee, Member
- American College of Surgeons, Commission on Cancer, Quality Integration Committee, Member
Education
- MPH: Quantitative Methods, Harvard School of Public Health
- PhD: Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin