Leadership

Maria Pisu, Ph.D.

Professor, Division of Preventive Medicine

Focus Areas: Economics, health services research, economic hardship/financial toxicity in cancer survivors, disparities

Mona Fouad, M.D., MPH

Director, UAB Minority Health & Health Equity Research Center

Focus Areas: Health disparities and equity; cancer prevention, control, and outcomes; diversity and inclusion; social determinants of health; research education and training

Marie Bakitas, DNSC, NP-C, FAAN

Focus Areas: Supportive/Palliative care, intervention adaptation/development, rural & under-resourced cancer populations, mentorship, investigator development

Lori Bateman, Ph.D.

Focus Areas: Qualitative methods, CBPR, social determinants of health, health disparities intervention development addressing obesity-related chronic disease and cancer prevention and control

Gabriela Oates, Ph.D.

Focus Areas: Social determinants of health (SDH), application of multi-level SDH measures, tools, and data for health disparities and population health research

Laura Rogers, M.D., MPH

Focus Areas: Cancer survivorship, health behavior, obesity medicine, psychosocial outcomes, physical activity in-person and web-based interventions (development and adaptation), survey development, implementation science

Lisa Zubkoff, Ph.D.

Focus Areas: Dissemination and implementation science, health services research, cancer care delivery research