Scarlett Gomez, PhD, MPH
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.