Lorraine Dean, ScD
Exploring Social Factors that “Get Under the Skin” for Cancer and HIV/AIDS
December 5 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Utopia Theater
RSVP: lsolomon@austin.utexas.edu
This interactive talk will present results from several studies on social (social capital) and economic (financial hardship) determinants of health outcomes across the cancer and HIV care continuums. This is a great opportunity to learn about the ways in which chronic disease outcomes reflect the larger social context in which people live, work, and play.
About the speaker: Lorraine Dean is an assistant professor in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and is currently funded by an NCI K01 on the social determinants of cancer survivorship disparities. She holds a doctorate in social epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health, funded by a Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award and a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Cancer Prevention Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. Dean is a first-generation college student and her early career opportunities as an undergraduate at Penn paved the way for her to spend a year in Venezuela conducting breast cancer research under the William J. Fulbright Program. Prior to her current position, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, managed the Tobacco Policy and Control Program at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, worked as a senior research analyst for the non-profit Urban Affairs Coalition, and as a private evaluation consultant with the Goodman Research Group.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the School of Social Work’s 2016-2017 Dean’s Lecture Series “Contemporary Issues in Research and Practice” and the Dell Medical School Department of Population Health