, Prevention, and Control T32 Training Grant

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of is the recipient of a T32 National Research Service Award Institutional Research Grant in Cancer Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control from the National Cancer Institute (aka training grant). The training grant provides funds for training at the pre- and post- doctoral levels in 3 tracks: the etiology and prevention of cancer, the genetic epidemiology of cancer, and cancer control. At the pre-doc level, training involves pursuit of a doctorate and dissertation research; funding is usually for up to three years, which includes tuition, stipend, and individual health insurance. At the post- doctoral level, training involves research in a mentored environment; funding usually is for two years, which includes stipend and individual health insurance.

At any one time, 6 doctoral students and 3 post-doctoral fellows are funded by the training grant. Slots are available only periodically and appointments typically are not aligned with the start of the academic year. Selection by the training grant Steering Committee for a slot on the training grant is highly competitive. To be eligible for support on the training grant, you must be:

1) A US citizen or Permanent Resident;

2) Committed to training and pursuing a career in the etiology and prevention of cancer, the genetic epidemiology of cancer, or cancer control; and

3) Accepted to/enrolled in a doctoral program (PhD, ScD, or DrPH) in the Department of Epidemiology or in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (pre-docs) or have received a doctorate in epidemiology, social and behavioral sciences, or other areas appropriate for conducting research in the etiology and prevention of cancer, the genetic epidemiology of cancer, and cancer control (post-docs).

***The training grant does not support students pursuing master’s degrees, irrespective of prior training at the doctoral level***

Directions for Pre-docs: Recipients of a pre-doc slot will receive multidisciplinary training in cancer epidemiology, prevention, and control through:

• Didactic methodologic, substantive area, and research ethics courses; • Interactive information exchange via orientation, retreat, symposium, journal club, research in progress, seminars; • Practical experiences in the statistical analysis of a cancer dataset, in the conduct of and service, and in laboratory methods for exposure assessment; • Teaching, communications, and grant writing opportunities; • Pre-doctoral dissertation research; and • Training-program specific educational, research, and career mentoring.

In addition to the training specific to the training grant program, pre-docs must meet the requirements of their home Department and the School.

Doctoral applicants to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health should indicate on their application form their interest in being considered for the Cancer Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control T32 Training Grant. Be sure to include in your personal statement the nature and extent of your commitment to training and a future career in population-based research on etiology and prevention of cancer, the genetic epidemiology of cancer, or cancer control. Note that we cannot guarantee the availability of a slot on the training grant at any given time.

When a pre-doc slot is available, current doctoral students who study cancer or cancer risk factors using the population-based approach will be considered. The training grant Steering Committee meetings include the Academic Coordinators from the Departments of Epidemiology and Health, Behavior and Society, who provide the names of eligible doctoral students. To learn if a slot will become available, contact Dr. Elizabeth Platz ([email protected]).

Directions for Post-docs: Recipients of a post-doc slot will receive multidisciplinary training in cancer epidemiology, prevention, and control through:

• Interactive information exchange via orientation, retreat, symposium, journal club, research in progress, seminars; • Practical experiences in the statistical analysis of a cancer dataset, in the conduct of cancer research and service, and in laboratory methods for exposure assessment; • Teaching, communications, and grant writing opportunities; • Post-doctoral research; and • Training-program specific educational, research, and career mentoring.

In addition to the training specific to the training grant program, post-docs must meet the requirements of their home Department and the School. Post-doctoral fellows are non-degree seeking; that is, the training grant does not pay for tuition for the pursuit of a master’s or doctoral degree.

Individuals who wish to train as a post-doctoral fellow in Cancer Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control and wish to be considered for funding on the training grant should first identify a primary mentor (see table at bottom) and work with the mentor to develop a project(s). Note that not all faculty members are available to take on a post- doc at any given time.

Then, apply to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (http://www.jhsph.edu/admissions/postdoc_info/index.html) as a post-doctoral fellow and concurrently apply for a slot on the training grant. The post-doc application for support on the Cancer Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control training grant should consist of:

1) Brief letter (1 page or less) with bullets for the following:

a) Indicate that you are applying for a post-doctoral slot on the Cancer Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control training grant b) Describe the nature and extent of your commitment to training and a future career in population-based research on etiology and prevention of cancer, the genetic epidemiology of cancer, or cancer control. c) State the date of completion of your doctorate, the field in which your doctorate was awarded, and the awarding institution d) The name and department of your mentor, and a brief description of your proposed research topic.

2) CV

3) Copy of your academic transcript for your doctorate (if degree not from Hopkins).

Note: you will not be considered for funding if you have not already identified a mentor and project(s) with that mentor. Please address your application to: Dr. Elizabeth Platz Department of Epidemiology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 615 N. Wolfe St., Rm E6132 Baltimore, MD 21205

You may forward your application to Dr. Platz by email: [email protected]

Table 2. Participating Faculty Members (Alphabetically by Faculty Member)

OMB Number 0925-0001 (Rev. 8/12 Approved Through 8/31/2015) Name/Degree(s) Rank Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s) Role in Program Research Interest PRECEPTORS (eligible to serve as primary advisor or mentor) 1. David B. Abrams, PhD Professor Department of Health, Behavior and Society, JHSPH Preceptor Tobacco control using transdisciplinary and Executive The Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and translational research Director Policy Studies, American Legacy Foundation strategies; measurement of (external to Johns Hopkins) mechanisms of behavior change and outcomes including: social cognitive and motivational constructs, psychiatric, alcohol and substance abuse comorbid conditions, measurement of tobacco use trajectories, patterns and transitions, nicotine dependence and biochemical validation of smoking; deployment of dissemination, implementation and community-based research to inform policy and practice. 2. Terri Beaty, PhD Professor Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH (Department Co-Director for Genetic epidemiology and of Oncology, JHSOM) Genetic Epidemiology statistical genetics to identify of Cancer Track / genes contributing to risk of Steering Committee / complex , including Preceptor cancer.

3. Janice Bowie, PhD, MPH Associate Department of Health, Behavior and Society, JHSPH Preceptor Behavioral, social and Professor structural factors associated Urban Health Institute with and impact health disparity including cancer; religion and spirituality for prevention and treatment of poor health; approaches that lead to the success and sustainability of community- based interventions; conduct and dissemination of applied prevention research. 4. Joanna Cohen, PhD, Professor Department of Health, Behavior and Society, JHSPH Preceptor Tobacco policy research; MHSc (Department of Oncology, JHSOM) factors that affect adoption and implementation of public Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at health policies and on Johns Hopkins evaluating the beneficial effects and the unintended Director Institute for Global Tobacco Control consequences of such policies. 5. Frank C. Curriero, PhD Associate Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH (Department Preceptor (eligible to Applications of spatial Professor of Biostatistics, JHSPH) co-mentor) statistics and geographic information systems (GIS) in public health. Research applications involve areas related to environmental epidemiology, mapping, and spatial variation in risk models. Current methodological research includes selection bias in spatial data and models for non-Euclidean isotropic spatial dependence. 6. Gypsyamber D’Souza, Associate Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH (Departments Preceptor Infectious causes of cancer; PhD, MPH Professor of Oncology and Otolaryngology and Head and HPV and oral, cervical and Neck Surgery, JHSOM) anal ; global cancer; screening and prevention Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at of cancer; risk behaviors and Johns Hopkins STDs.

7. M. Daniele Fallin, PhD Professor, Department of Mental Health, JHSPH (Department Preceptor Genetic epidemiology Chair of Epidemiology, JHSPH) methods; developing applications and methods for epigenetic epidemiology. 8. David R. Holtgrave, PhD Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, JHSPH Preceptor Effectiveness and cost- Chair (Departments of Medicine and Oncology, JHSOM) effectiveness of prevention and care intervention; economic evaluations of interventions designed to reduce smoking behaviors. 9. Corinne E. Joshu, PhD, Assistant Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH (Department Preceptor 1) Identifying modifiable risk MPH Professor of Oncology, JHSOM) factors for the recurrence of in men who Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at underwent surgery for Johns Hopkins clinically localized disease. 2) Assessing whether the inherited risk of colon cancer George W. Comstock Center for Public Health can be reduced via changes Research and Prevention in modifiable risk factors for this cancer. 3) Determining Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and how chronic conditions Clinical Research influence cancer , mortality, and case-fatality, as well their influence on cancer screening behavior. 10. Gregory D. Kirk, MD, Associate Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH (Division of Preceptor Understanding natural history PhD, MPH Professor Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine; of viral infections, particularly Department of Oncology, JHSOM) HIV and the hepatitis viruses, in both domestic and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at international settings; non- Johns Hopkins AIDS outcomes of HIV including cancer, and lung diseases; clinical, imaging, and 'omic' (genetic, epigenetic, proteomic) metho ds to identify individuals at greatest risk for clinically relevant outcomes from HIV, HBV and HCV infections.

11. Alison P. Klein, PhD, Associate Department of Oncology, JHSOM (Department of Preceptor Genetic epidemiology, MHS Professor Pathology, JHSOM; Department of Epidemiology, pancreas cancer; inherited JHSPH) cancer syndromes.

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins 12. Christine Ladd-Acosta, Assistant Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH Preceptor Epigenetic basis of several PhD Professor common human diseases, including due to prenatal exposures. 13. Elizabeth A. Platz, ScD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH (Department Program Director / Epidemiology of prostate and MPH Deputy Chair of Urology, JHSOM) Preceptor colon cancers; circulating and tissue-based biomarkers of Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at risk and prognosis; Johns Hopkins explanations for racial disparities in prostate cancer; George W. Comstock Center for Public Health translational epidemiology, Research and Prevention team science; methodologic issues in study design. Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research 14. Debra L. Roter, DrPH, Professor Department of Health, Behavior and Society, JHSPH Preceptor Patient-provider MPH (Departments of Medicine and Oncology, JHSOM) communication; social psychology research on communication dynamics and interpersonal influence; patient and physician interventions to improve quality of communication and enhance effects on patient health outcomes; educational applications in training and evaluation of teaching strategies to enhance physicians’ communication skills; association between patients’ and physicians’ ethnicity and gender and their communication style and medical care outcomes.

15. Katherine A. Smith, PhD, Associate Department of Health, Behavior and Society, JHSPH Co-Director for Social determinants of health MA Professor (Department of Oncology, JHSOM) Cancer Control Track behavior; communication of / Steering Committee health information; issues Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at / Preceptor and dietary behaviors among Johns Hopkins long term cancer survivors; global surveillance system of tobacco packaging; cancer survivorship care planning. 16. Kala Visvanathan, MD, Associate Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH (Department Preceptor Epidemiologic research MHS Professor of Oncology, JHSOM) focused on reducing breast and incidence Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at and mortality; underlying Johns Hopkins etiology of these diseases, genetic and environmental George W. Comstock Center for Public Health risk factors and implementing Research and Prevention early detection and preventive strategies to women in the general and high-risk population. AFFILIATES (not eligible to serve as primary advisor or mentor; bring richness to training program through expertise, co-advising / mentoring, and serving on thesis committees and as examiners for qualifying exams or defenses) 1. Joan E. Bailey-Wilson, Adjunct Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH Affiliate Statistical genetics; genetic PhD Professor epidemiology; human Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch, population-based and family- Senior National Human Genome Research Institute based studies; genetic risk Investigator (Baltimore, MD) loci for human cancers, and Co-Chief including rare variants. 2. Brian Caffo, PhD Professor Department of Biostatistics, JHSPH Affiliate Statistical methods and development for biological signal analysis; computational statistics.

3. Carlos Castillo-Salgado, Professor Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH (Department Affiliate Applied epidemiology, health MD, DrPH, MPH, JD of Oncology, JHSOM) planning and evaluation, geographic information Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at systems, health impact Johns Hopkins assessment, measuring health inequalities, urban health. 4. Avonne E. Connor, PhD, Assistant Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH (Department Affiliate (in training to disparities MPH Professor of Oncology, JHSOM) be a Preceptor) including in Hispanic, African American, and underserved Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at populations including in Johns Hopkins Baltimore; modifiable risk factors and breast cancer risk and survival; adherence to recommended breast cancer screening practices. 5. Angelo M. De Marzo, MD, Professor Department of Pathology, JHSOM (Departments of Affiliate Prostate cancer pathology; PhD Oncology an Urology, JHSOM) tissue microarrays; biomarker development; biospecimen Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at banking; MYC, PTEN and Johns Hopkins prostate cancer; prostate cancer and inflammation. 6. Lori A. Erby, PhD, MSc. Adjunct Department of Health, Behavior and Society Affiliate Process of genetic Assistant counseling and client Professor outcomes; communication to National Human Genome Research Institute enhance informed decision- (Baltimore, MD) making and adaptation; communication of complex genetics topics outside of the realm of genetic counseling, particularly to populations with reduced literacy; psychological and social implications of genetic technologies.

7. Francis M. Giardiello, MD Professor Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Affiliate Gastrointestinal track Medicine, JHSOM (Department of Oncology, cancers; chemoprevention; JHSOM) genetic basis of familial ; use of Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at genetic testing in the Johns Hopkins hereditary forms of colorectal cancer; genotypic-phenotypic correlations in the polyposis syndromes. 8. Michael G. Goggins, Professor Department of Pathology, JHSOM (Department of Affiliate genetics MBBCh, MD Oncology, JHSOM) and epigenetics; pancreatic cancer screening; familial Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at pancreatic cancer; early Johns Hopkins detection of pancreatic cancer. 9. John D. Groopman, PhD Professor Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Affiliate Development and application JHSPH (Department of Oncology, JHSOM) of molecular biomarkers of exposure, dose, and effect Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at from environmental Johns Hopkins carcinogens, including aflatoxins; ; virus. 10. Stuart A. Grossman, MD Professor Department of Oncology, JHSOM Affiliate Brain tumors, medical oncology, neuro-oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at pain management. Johns Hopkins 11. Ralph H. Hruban, MD Professor Department of Pathology, JHSOM (Department of Affiliate Pancreatic cancer pathology; Oncology, JHSOM) characterization of PanINs, the precursor lesions that Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at give rise to invasive Johns Hopkins pancreatic cancer; National Familial Pancreas Tumor Registry. 12. William B. Isaacs, PhD Professor Department of Urology, JHSOM Affiliate Characterizing consistent alterations in the structure Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at and expression of the Johns Hopkins genome of human prostate cancer; germline variations conferring increased risk.

13. Norma F. Kanarek, PhD Associate Department of Environmental Health Sciences Steering Patient participation in clinical Professor Committee/Affiliate trials, use of preventive Department of Oncology, JHSOM health services and cancer etiology. Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins 14. Kenneth W. Kinzler, MD, Professor Department of Oncology, JHSOM Affiliate Cancer genetics; discovery of PhD APC pathway in the initiation Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at of most colorectal cancers Johns Hopkins and IDH1/2 mutations that underlying many gliomas; development of tools for analysis of expression and genetic alterations in cancer; integrated whole genome analyses of human cancers through expression, copy number, and mutational analyses of all the coding genes in several human cancer types including colorectal, breast, pancreatic and brain. 15. Jeffrey T. Leek, PhD Associate Department of Biostatistics, JHSPH Affiliate Statistical methods and Professor development for analysis of Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at data from next generation Johns Hopkins sequencing; turning public genomic data into clinically useful tools, including for cancer.

16. Ana Navas-Acien, MD, Associate Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Affiliate Environmental epidemiology, PhD, MPH Professor JHSPH (Department of Oncology, JHSOM) health consequences of widespread environmental Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at exposures; chronic health Johns Hopkins effects of trace metals, secondhand tobacco George W. Comstock Center for Public Health smoke, air pollution; Research and Prevention research in support of progressive policies that Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and reduce involuntary exposure Clinical Research to environmental toxicants. 17. William G. Nelson, MD, Professor and Department of Oncology, JHSOM (Departments of Affiliate Cellular defenses against PhD Director Urology, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences; carcinogens; cellular Medicine; Pathology; Radiation Oncology and responses to DNA damage; Molecular Radiation Sciences, JHSOM) DNA methylation and epigenetic gene silencing; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at inflammation and Johns Hopkins prostatic . 18. Darcy F. Phelan-Emrick, Assistant Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH Affiliate prevention DrPH, MHS Scientist services; HPV vaccine uptake; cervical cancer Epidemiologis Baltimore City Health Department screening strategies to t-in-Chief reduce screening overuse and associated harms; impact of the HPV vaccine on cervical cancer screening behaviors and on predictive values of current cervical cancer screening algorithms. 19. Craig E. Pollack, MD, Associate Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Affiliate Social determinants of health; MHS Professor Medicine, JHSOM (Departments of Epidemiology organization of cancer care; and Health Policy and Management, JHSPH) cancer disparities.

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20. Richard B. Roden, PhD Professor Department of Pathology, JHSOM (Departments of Affiliate Pathology of cervical and Oncology and Gynecology and Obstetrics, JHSOM) ovarian cancer; development of a preventive vaccine that is Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at active against all oncogenic Johns Hopkins types of HPV; identification of novel tumor antigens of significance in the biology of ovarian cancer that are applicable as biomarkers for early detection or targets for immunotherapy. 21. Anne F. Rositch, PhD, Assistant Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH (Department Affiliate (in training to Global cancer epidemiology; MSPH Professor of Oncology, JHSOM) be a Preceptor) field-based research; natural history of infection-associated Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at cancers in HIV-positive Johns Hopkins individuals, aging women, and in low-resource settings. 22. Ingo Ruczinski, PhD Professor Department of Biostatistics, JHSPH Affiliate Biostatistics, statistical genetics, genomics, George W. Comstock Center for Public Health proteomics, computational Research and Prevention biology. 23. David Sidransky, MD Professor Department of Oncology, JHSOM (Department of Affiliate Lung and ; Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, ; JHSOM) molecular cancer detection and staging. Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins 24. Paul T. Strickland, PhD Professor Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Steering Molecular biomonitoring of JHSPH Committee/Affiliate toxic agents and genetic polymorphisms associated George W. Comstock Center for Public Health with their metabolism. Research and Prevention 25. Grant Tao, MD, PhD Associate Division of Occupational and Environmental Affiliate Environmental and Professor Medicine, Department of Medicine, JHSOM occupational epidemiology; (Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH) research using cancer registry data; GIS applications in environmental epidemiologic research.

26. Bruce J. Trock, PhD Professor Division of Epidemiology, Department of Urology, Affiliate Breast cancer; prostate JHSOM (Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH) cancer; biomarkers of age- related change in the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at prostate; biological Johns Hopkins mechanisms of aging. 27. James D. Yager, PhD Professor Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Affiliate Mechanisms of estrogen JHSPH (Department of Oncology, JHSOM) carcinogenesis, both endogenous and environmental chemicals with estrogenic activity; breast cancer. 28. Hsin-Chieh (Jessica) Associate Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Affiliate Novel risk factors and Yeh, PhD Professor Medicine, JHSOM (Department of Epidemiology, complications related to JHSPH) and type 2 diabetes, particularly lung function, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at smoking, and cancer; health Johns Hopkins informatics to provide behavioral intervention. George W. Comstock Center for Public Health Research and Prevention

Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research NEW FACULTY TO BE PROPOSED IN A FUTURE AWARD YEAR AS PARTICIPATING FACULTY 1. Lorraine Dean, ScD Assistant Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH Future Preceptor or Health disparities, social Professor Affiliate determinants of health, (effective racism, policy, social capital, 1/1/2016) . 2. Ryan Kennedy, PhD Assistant Department of Health, Behavior and Society, JHSPH Future Preceptor or Tobacco control policy Professor Affiliate development, implementation, and evaluation, including systems for tobacco cessation support (e.g., quit lines, primary care providers).

3. Meghan Moran, PhD, MA Assistant Department of Health, Behavior and Society, JHSPH Future Preceptor or Health communication Professor Affiliate research focused on persuasion and social influence (e.g., media, pop culture) on tobacco use, adolescent health, health disparities, and uptake of HPV vaccines in the prevention of cervical cancer. 4. Sara Neelon Benjamin, Associate Department of Health, Behavior and Society, JHSPH Future Preceptor or Research on policy and PhD, MPH Professor Affiliate environmental approaches to obesity prevention in vulnerable populations. 5. Jill Owczarzak, PhD Assistant Department of Health, Behavior and Society, JHSPH Future Preceptor or Application of the methods Professor Affiliate and theory of medical anthropology to understand public health policy and practice. 6. Roland Thorpe, PhD Assistant Department of Health, Behavior and Society, JHSPH Future Preceptor or Health disparities; functional Professor Affiliate status and decline; life Center for Health Disparities Solutions course; men’s health.