Leticia Nogueira, PhD, MPH, is a Scientific Director at the American Cancer Society. She also holds an Adjunct Professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and is the inaugural NIH Climate Change and Health Scholars hosted by the National Cancer Institute.
Dr. Nogueira’s research focuses on cancer disparities that can be addressed through policy changes, especially those related to climate change and structural racism.
She received the Fellows Award for Research Excellence from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Woman in Cancer Research and the Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Awards from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), was inducted into the College of Natural Sciences Hall of Honors and received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award from the University of Texas at Austin, where she serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council.
She also serves on the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer Quality Assurance and Data Committee and is an ambassador for the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team.
Dr. Nogueira earned her PhD in molecular biology from the University of Texas at Austin and her MPH in Quantitative Methods from the Harvard School of Public Health.
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