Areas of Research: Key Initiatives

Cohort Studies

• Black Women's Cohort: A Follow-up Study for Causes of Illness in Black Women
  Lynn Rosenberg, Sc.D., Boston University
• Breast Cancer Prognostic Factors/Pathobiology
  Kathleen Malone, Ph.D.
  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• California Teachers Study: Breast and Other Cancers in the California Teachers' Cohort
  Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D., University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Cancer in American Natives: A Prospective Study of Alaska Natives and American Indians
  Martha Slattery, Ph.D., University of Utah
  Anne Lanier, M.D., M.P.H., Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
  Jeffrey Henderson, M.D., M.P.H., Black Hills Center for American Indian Health
• Dietary Factors in the Etiology of Cancer in Shanghai
  Jian-Min Yuan, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., University of Minnesota
• Health Professionals Follow-up Study: Prospective Studies of Diet and Cancer in Men and Women
  Walter Willett, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health
• Iowa Women's Health Study: Epidemiology of Cancer in a Cohort of Older Women
  Aaron Folsom, M.D., M.P.H., University of Minnesota
• Multiethnic/Minority Cohort Study of Diet and Cancer
  Laurence Kolonel, M.D., Ph.D., Cancer Research Center of Hawaii
• Natural History of HPV- Infection to Neoplasia
  Anna-Barbara Moscicki, M.D., University of California at San Francisco
• Natural History of HPV Infection in Men: The Health in Men Study
  Anna Giuliano, Ph.D., H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
• Nurses' Health Study I: Dietary and Hormonal Determinants of Cancer in Women
  Sue Hankinson, Sc.D., Harvard School of Public Health
• Nurses' Health Study II: Risk Factors for Breast Cancer Among Younger Nurses
  Walter Willett, M.D.,M.P.H., Dr.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health
• Prospective Study of Breast Cancer Survivorship
  Lawrence Kushi, Sc.D.
  Kaiser Permanente
• Seventh-day Adventist Cohort Study: Cancer Epidemiology in Adventists - A Low Risk Group
  Gary Fraser, M.B.Ch.B., Ph.D., M.P.H., Loma Linda University
• Shanghai Men's Health Study: Cohort Study of Cancer-inhibitory Factors in Men
  Xiao Shu, M.D., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
• Shanghai Women's Health Study: Cancer Risk Reduction and Diet - A Cohort Study of Women
  Wei Zheng, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Vanderbilt University
• Singapore Cohort Study of Diet and Cancer
  Mimi Yu, Ph.D., University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Southern Community Cohort Study
  William Blot, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University and International Epidemiology Institute, Ltd.
• VITAL Vitamins and Lifestyle Study: Cohort Study of Dietary Supplements and Cancer Risk
  Emily White, Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center