Overview: Cancer Education and Career Development Program
Jump start your research career in cancer prevention and control! Our interdisciplinary training program has an excellent track record: graduates go on to strong post-doctoral programs and faculty positions and become independent investigators.
A stimulating environment provides diverse opportunities for interdisciplinary training:
- More than 30 investigators with experience and training in multiple disciplines and training and cultural backgrounds who
- draw on a range of theories and models
- use both quantitative and qualitative methods for epidemiology, ascertainment, intervention, and diffusion research studies
- have built collaborative networks in the Houston community, in the State, and elsewhere in the U.S. and nationally and internationally
- are authors of widely used textbooks and editors and authors of other books
- are reviewers on NIH study sections and other review groups
- are members and chairs of influential task forces, boards, and advisory groups
- are winners of prestigious awards
- are committed to mentoring and recognized for mentoring excellence
- Funded projects addressing a range of important risk factors, most of which are focused on underserved Hispanic, African American, and border and rural populations and also on subpopulations--e.g., drug users, incarcerated men and women, and neighborhoods affected by inequitable environmental policy and enforcement
