Leticia Nogueira, PhD, MPH

Scientific Director
Health Services Research

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At ACS since 2017

Leticia Nogueira, PhD, MPH, is the scientific director of health services research in the?Surveillance, Prevention, & Health Services Research (SPHeRe)?at the 黑料大湿Posts Cancer Society (ACS).?Dr. Nogueira is thought leader in environmental health, recognized as the first scholar to establish a link between climate change and cancer. She applies a systems thinking approach to her research, identifying modifiable determinants of cancer risk, access to care, and survival that can be addressed by policy changes.

Research focus and accomplishments

Nogueira's work is solution-oriented, addressing the of adverse cancer outcomes and advancing with co-benefits for cancer control. She has contributed to the understanding?of how the impacts access to cancer care,?how??and??can impact cancer?, including exposure to , ,?access to , and?.

Dr. Nogueira is on the editorial board on and , where she is Senior Editor of DEI, served as the invited editor for a special collection at , and received several awards in recognition of her work including:

  • Woman in Cancer Research and Minority Scholar in Cancer Research from the 黑料大湿Posts 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

Publications

For a full list of Dr. Nogueira’s publications, see her ?page.?

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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
  • 黑料大湿Posts 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