Scarlett Gomez, PhD, MPH

Professor
M_Epidemiology & Biostatistics
+1 510 608-5041

Scarlett Lin Gomez, M.P.H. and Ph.D. in Epidemiology, is Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a member of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, where she is Co-Leader of the Cancer Control Program and a member of the Prostate Cancer Program Leadership Committee. She is Director of the Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry, a participant in the NCI SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results) program and the California Cancer Registry. Her research focuses primarily on cancer health disparities /inequities and aims to understand the multilevel drivers of those disparities. She has enhanced the capability of population-level cancer surveillance data to examine the roles of immigration, ethnic enclave, and institutional and neighborhood-level factors, with attention to providing empirical cancer statistics for disaggregated populations defined by race/ethnicity, nativity, and other social determinants. She conducts studies that incorporate mixed-methods approaches to focus specifically on discrimination, cultural factors, immigration-related issues including stress, and contextual-level influences including family, institutional, and neighborhood factors relating to disparities in cancer incidence and outcomes.

Publications

Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions years after a nearby tidal disruption event.

Nature

Nicholl M, Pasham DR, Mummery A, Guolo M, Gendreau K, Dewangan GC, Ferrara EC, Remillard R, Bonnerot C, Chakraborty J, Hajela A, Dhillon VS, Gillan AF, Greenwood J, Huber ME, Janiuk A, Salvesen G, van Velzen S, Aamer A, Alexander KD, Angus CR, Arzoumanian Z, Auchettl K, Berger E, de Boer T, Cendes Y, Chambers KC, Chen TW, Chornock R, Fulton MD, Gao H, Gillanders JH, Gomez S, Gompertz BP, Fabian AC, Herman J, Ingram A, Kara E, Laskar T, Lawrence A, Lin CC, Lowe TB, Magnier EA, Margutti R, McGee SL, Minguez P, Moore T, Nathan E, Oates SR, Patra KC, Ramsden P, Ravi V, Ridley EJ, Sheng X, Smartt SJ, Smith KW, Srivastav S, Stein R, Stevance HF, Turner SGD, Wainscoat RJ, Weston J, Wevers T, Young DR

Knowledge Gaps, Challenges, and Opportunities in Health and Prevention Research for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders: A Report From the 2021 National Institutes of Health Workshop.

Annals of internal medicine

Kanaya AM, Hsing AW, Panapasa SV, Kandula NR, G Araneta MR, Shimbo D, Wang P, Gomez SL, Lee J, Narayan KMV, Mala Mau MKL, Bose S, Daviglus ML, Hu FB, Islam N, Jackson CL, Kataoka-Yahiro M, Kauwe JSK, Liu S, Ma GX, Nguyen T, Palaniappan L, Setiawan VW, Trinh-Shevrin C, Tsoh JY, Vaidya D, Vickrey B, Wang TJ, Wong ND, Coady S, Hong Y

Integrating Electronic Health Record, Cancer Registry, and Geospatial Data to Study Lung Cancer in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Ethnic Groups.

Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology

DeRouen MC, Thompson CA, Canchola AJ, Jin A, Nie S, Wong C, Jain J, Lichtensztajn DY, Li Y, Allen L, Patel MI, Daida YG, Luft HS, Shariff-Marco S, Reynolds P, Wakelee HA, Liang SY, Waitzfelder BE, Cheng I, Gomez SL

Cancer health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States.

British journal of cancer

Zavala VA, Bracci PM, Carethers JM, Carvajal-Carmona L, Coggins NB, Cruz-Correa MR, Davis M, de Smith AJ, Dutil J, Figueiredo JC, Fox R, Graves KD, Gomez SL, Llera A, Neuhausen SL, Newman L, Nguyen T, Palmer JR, Palmer NR, Pérez-Stable EJ, Piawah S, Rodriquez EJ, Sanabria-Salas MC, Schmit SL, Serrano-Gomez SJ, Stern MC, Weitzel J, Yang JJ, Zabaleta J, Ziv E, Fejerman L

Breast Cancer Mortality in Older and Younger Patients in California.

Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology

Tao L, Schwab RB, San Miguel Y, Gomez SL, Canchola AJ, Gago-Dominguez M, Komenaka IK, Murphy JD, Molinolo AA, Martinez ME

Charting the Future of Cancer Health Disparities Research: A Position Statement From the American Association for Cancer Research, the American Cancer Society, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the National Cancer Institute.

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

Polite BN, Adams-Campbell LL, Brawley OW, Bickell N, Carethers JM, Flowers CR, Foti M, Gomez SL, Griggs JJ, Lathan CS, Li CI, Lichtenfeld JL, McCaskill-Stevens W, Paskett ED

Geospatial Approaches to Cancer Control and Population Sciences.

Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology

Schootman M, Gomez SL, Henry KA, Paskett ED, Ellison GL, Oh A, Taplin SH, Tatalovich Z, Berrigan DA

Cancer Mortality in Hispanic Ethnic Groups.

Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology

Pinheiro PS, Callahan KE, Siegel RL, Jin H, Morris CR, Trapido EJ, Gomez SL

Interpreting biomarker data from the COPHES/DEMOCOPHES twin projects: Using external exposure data to understand biomarker differences among countries.

Environmental research

Smolders R, Den Hond E, Koppen G, Govarts E, Willems H, Casteleyn L, Kolossa-Gehring M, Fiddicke U, Castaño A, Koch HM, Angerer J, Esteban M, Sepai O, Exley K, Bloemen L, Horvat M, Knudsen LE, Joas A, Joas R, Biot P, Aerts D, Katsonouri A, Hadjipanayis A, Cerna M, Krskova A, Schwedler G, Seiwert M, Nielsen JK, Rudnai P, Közepesy S, Evans DS, Ryan MP, Gutleb AC, Fischer ME, Ligocka D, Jakubowski M, Reis MF, Namorado S, Lupsa IR, Gurzau AE, Halzlova K, Fabianova E, Mazej D, Tratnik Snoj J, Gomez S, González S, Berglund M, Larsson K, Lehmann A, Crettaz P, Schoeters G

Impact of neighborhood and individual socioeconomic status on survival after breast cancer varies by race/ethnicity: the Neighborhood and Breast Cancer Study.

Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology

Shariff-Marco S, Yang J, John EM, Sangaramoorthy M, Hertz A, Koo J, Nelson DO, Schupp CW, Shema SJ, Cockburn M, Satariano WA, Yen IH, Ponce NA, Winkleby M, Keegan TH, Gomez SL

Lung cancer incidence in never smokers.

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

Wakelee HA, Chang ET, Gomez SL, Keegan TH, Feskanich D, Clarke CA, Holmberg L, Yong LC, Kolonel LN, Gould MK, West DW