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Steering Committee Members
Note: Year following Steering Committee Members' names indicates term end date.
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Heather Eliassen, ScD - 2022
Chair
Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Representing the Nurses’ Health Study-II (NHS-II) -
James V. Lacey, Jr., PhD, MPH - 2023
Chair Elect
Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope
Representing the California Teachers Study -
Jelena Besevic, MSc, PhD - 2024
University of Oxford
Representing the UK Biobank -
Shine Chang, PhD - 2022
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Representing the Mexican American (Mano a Mano) Cohort Study -
Yu Chen, PhD, MPH - 2024
New York University School of Medicine
Representing the NYU Women’s Health Study -
Pietro Ferrari, PhD - 2025
International Agency for Research on Cancer
Representing the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) -
Melissa A. Merritt, PhD - 2024
AMC Representative
The University of Sydney
Representing the Associate Member Council (AMC) -
Roger Milne, PhD - 2022
Outgoing Chair
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Australia
Representing the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study -
Janet Olson, MPH, PhD - 2024
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Representing the Mayo Clinic Biobank -
Alpa Patel, PhD - 2025
American Cancer Society, Inc.
Representing the Cancer Prevention Studies (CPS-II, CPS-II Nutrition Cohort, CPS-III) -
Dale P. Sandler, PhD - 2025
National Institute of Environmental Health, NIH
Representing the Sister Study (SIS) -
Jeannette M. Schenk, PhD, MS, RD - 2022
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Representing the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial -
V. Wendy Setiawan, PhD - 2025
University of Southern California
Representing the Multiethnic/Minority Cohort Study of Diet and Cancer (MEC) -
Lynne Wilkens, DrPH
Special Advisor
University of Hawaii Cancer Center
Representing the Multiethnic/Minority Cohort Study of Diet and Cancer -
Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, MPH - 2025
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Representing the Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS)
Ex-Officio Members
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Katrina A.B. Goddard, PhD
Director, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS), NCI -
Stephen Chanock, MD
Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), NCI -
Mia Gaudet, PhD
Senior Scientist, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), NCI -
Kathy Helzlsouer, MD, MHS
Associate Director, Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP), DCCPS, NCI
NCI Executive Staff
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Rachel Hanisch, PhD, MPH (Executive Director)
Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP), DCCPS, NCI -
Scott Rogers, MPH (Advisor, Cohorts and Grants)
Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP), DCCPS, NCI -
Pothur Srinivas, PhD, MPH (Deputy Associate Director)
Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP), DCCPS, NCI
Ad hoc Steering Committee Participants: Pothur Srinivas and Scott Rogers