Black History Month Seminar

Dr. Hughes-Halbert serves as the Associate Director for Cancer
Equity. She is a nationally recognized leader in cancer prevention
and minority health research. She has dedicated her career to
reducing the disparities in cancer outcomes that affect patients
from underrepresented communities, with a primary focus on
African American communities. Among her many achievements,
she has identified sociocultural, psychological, genetic and
environmental determinants of cancer health disparities and
translates this information into interventions to improve health
equity among racially and ethnically diverse populations, as well
as other medically underserved groups.For her many
contributions, Hughes-Halbert was elected to the National
Academy of Medicine in 2017.

In addition to her election to the National Academy of Medicine,
Hughes-Halbert received the American Cancer Society’s Cancer
Control Award in 2010. President Barack Obama appointed her
to the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors in
2012, and in 2014 she joined the National Advisory Council of the
National Human Genome Research Institute. The American
Association for Cancer Research named her chair of its Minorities
in Cancer Research Council the same year, and she received the
AACR Distinguished Lecture Award on the Science of Cancer
Health Disparities, funded by the Susan G. Komen Foundation, in
2018. She earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from
Howard University after graduating summa cum laude from
Hampton University.