Dudith Pierre-Victor, PhD, MPH, recently joined Jackson State University as Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences in the Department of Behavioral and Environmental Health. Prior to joining JSU, Dr. Pierre-Victor was the Director of Research in the HCA Healthcare /USF Morsani College of Medicine Graduate Medical Education Consortium where she mentored and oversaw over 844 medical residents and fellows pursuing scholarly activities. She earned an M.P.H with a concentration in Epidemiology (2011) and a Ph.D. in Public Health (2016), with a concentration in Epidemiology. Dr. Pierre-Victor completed the prestigious Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the NCI’s Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP), which encompasses over 1,000 research sites and 3,500 oncologists. She combined her epidemiology expertise and her health services experience to design and implement research that incorporates quantitative and qualitative methods for the investigation of a broad range of factors contributing to health disparities. Her research interests include comorbidity management during cancer treatment, health disparities, and women’s health.