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Health Disparities

With observed disparities in most, if not all, chronic diseases, there is a need to move beyond documentation to an improved understanding of the underlying mechanisms as well as the interplay between risk factors that drive differences across groups in the incidence, morbidity, mortality and survival of the major causes of mortality. In CDE program, we are conducting studies using both large data sets as well as originally collected data from local, regional, national, and global settings.

Faculty of Interest

  • Michaela Dinan, PhD

    Associate Professor Tenure; Co-Leader, Cancer Prevention and Control, Yale Cancer Center

    Research Interests
    • Breast Neoplasms
    • Carcinoma, Renal Cell
    • Chronic Disease
    • Colonic Neoplasms
    • Costs and Cost Analysis
    • Epidemiology
    • Urologic Neoplasms
    • Risk Assessment
    • Cancer Survivors
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  • Beth Anne Jones, PhD, MPH

    Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases); Inaugural Director, Cancer Screening & Prevention Program

    Research Interests
    • Breast Neoplasms
    • Neoplasms
    • Social Class
    • Socioeconomic Factors
    • Epidemiologic Factors
    • Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
    • Minority Health
    • Health Status Disparities
    • Healthcare Disparities
    • Social Determinants of Health
    • Health Care
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  • Judith Lichtman, PhD, MPH

    Department Chair and Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases); Director, Humanities, Arts, and Public Health Practice at Yale (HAPPY) Initiative; Co-director, Center for Neuroepidemiology and Clinical Neurological Research

    Research Interests
    • Epidemiology
    • Heart Diseases
    • Quality of Health Care
    • Research
    • Stroke
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  • Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS

    Associate Dean for Health Equity Research and C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine), of Epidemiology (Chronic Disease) and of Public Health (Social And Behavioral Sciences) & Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Founding Director, Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC), Yale School of Medicine; Director, Center for Research Engagement (CRE); Director, Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity; Deputy Director for Health Equity Research and Workforce Development, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI); Director, Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership

    Research Interests
    • Chronic Disease
    • Health Services Research
    • Internal Medicine
    • Social Justice
    • Socioeconomic Factors
    • Global Health
    • Women's Health
    • Caribbean Region
    • Vulnerable Populations
    • Minority Health
    • Healthcare Disparities
    • Community-Based Participatory Research
    • Social Discrimination
    • Social Determinants of Health
    • Patient Reported Outcome Measures
    • Global Burden of Disease
    • Population Health
    • COVID-19
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