Researcher Profile

Kitaw Demissie, MD, PhD

Full Member, Cancer Prevention and Control Program

Member since 1999

Academic Appointment

Professor and Chair of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Positions

Director, Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities

Research Interests

• Childhood asthma
• Perinatal epidemiology
• Breast cancer
• Racial disparity issues in developing health care

Selected Publications