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At ACS since 2017

Leticia Nogueira, PhD, MPH, is the scientific director of health services research in the Surveillance & Health Equity Science department at the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Cancer Society (ACS). 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 ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ 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 ACS

• 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
• ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ 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