PHC 6931 Seminar in Contemporary Public Health Issues presents
Mammography Screening in African American Women: Results from the Race Differences in Mammography Screening Process
Study
Beth A. Jones, Ph.D., MPH
Yale University School of Medicine, School of Public Health
Feb 11, 2008
11:45AM -1:40 PM
Room G101 HPNP Building
Dr Beth Jones is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public
Health, Yale University School of Medicine. The focus of Dr. Jones’s teaching and research is health disparities, primarily the study of racial/ethnic disparities in cancer.
Dr. Jones has now conducted a number of studies that have systematically evaluated factors that contribute to the relatively poor cancer outcomes in African Americans.
Using a multidisciplinary approach, she is evaluating the role(s) of tumor characteristics and selected genetic factors, as well as social class, medical care, and psychosocial factors in explaining the lower survival from cancer in African Americans compared with
Whites. Although most of the work to date has focused on breast cancer, this work has been extended to other cancer sites as well (e.g., prostate, colorectal). Additionally, she is researching the process of screening mammography and the racial/ethnic-specific factors that influence adherence to screening guidelines and follow-up for abnormal screening tests. Another area of her cancer prevention research includes a study of
African American / White differences in the prevalence and correlates of high-risk breast density patterns; she is also Co-Investigator on a study of breast density and in situ breast cancer.