Join the Global Cancer Collaborative for a meeting on human papillomavirus and cervical cancer. This meeting will showcase Georgetown faculty’s recent findings and innovative approaches aimed at prevention, treatment, and awareness. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore potential interdisciplinary collaboration on current and future research initiatives.
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Alejandra Hurtado De Mendoza, Ph.D., is a tenured associate professor at the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. She aims to combine interdisciplinary approaches in social psychology, behavioral science, and communication to develop and evaluate interventions that address stark disparities in the uptake of genetic risk assessment in high-risk underserved groups.
Sharon Kibwana, Ph.D., MPH, is an assistant professor and senior program manager at the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, part of Georgetown University Medical Center. She has substantial management expertise implementing global HIV, workforce development, maternal and neonatal health, and cervical cancer prevention projects, and she is passionate about expanding access to quality health care for underserved and marginalized communities.
Cecilia Van Hollen, Ph.D., is a teaching professor in the Asian Studies Program of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist whose research focuses empirically on social and cultural dimensions of health, medicine, the body, and global and public health policy in India, and theoretically on globalization and modernity, feminism and gender studies, critical medical anthropology, and social inequality and power.