Evaluation of Population Based Data at the DC Department of Health and Analysis of Disparities in Cancer Rates within DC

Brief Project Description

Sponsor: National Cancer Institute
Principal Investigator: Paul H. Levine, MD
Statistician: Heather A. Young, PhD, MPH
The major goals of this project are to examine racial differences in cancer rates and examine data on socioeconomic disparities as it relates to disparities in cancer incidence rates using GIS and other statistical techniques.

Faculty

• Paul Levine, MD
  Research Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Clinical Professor of Medicine
• Heather Young, PhD, MPH, CHES
  Assistant Research Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Department

• Epidemiology and Biostatistics