Off-Campus Mentors

Annaba Cancer Registry.

Oncology Centre – Annaba University Hospital.

Dr. Garcés-Palacio has research experience with underserved populations in the United States and Colombia, focusing primarily on cervical cancer prevention. Her projects have focused on the effect of the social determinants of health in cervical cancer screening and follow-up of abnormalities, and psychological factors related to HPV infection and vaccination. She has also investigated smoking prevention among women and maternal and child health in the Colombian armed conflict. Dr. Garcés-Palacio completed her undergraduate studies in Nutrition at Javeriana University in Colombia and graduate studies in Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham-UAB-(MPH in 2004 and DrPH in 2009). She was a post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Preventive Medicine at UAB during 2009 and 2010 and was honored with a Fulbright scholarship in 2002 and the Outstanding Doctoral Student award in 2009 from UAB’s School of Public Health.

Possible projects to develop during the program include but are not limited to secondary data analyses of vital statistics of Colombia, focusing on cancer and its relationship with health care insurance, ethnicity, and country of origin (migrants). For example, looking at how changes in health insurance policies influenced mortality of long vs short survival cancers.

Chairman, Gharbia Cancer Society, Egypt

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Colon Cancer, Breast Cancer

Head of Oncology Center at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Ghana

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Lymphoma

Consultant Oncologist at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Ghana

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Lymphoma

Executive Director, Middle East Cancer Consortium, Haifa
Cancer Research Specialty Area: Cancer Registry

Director, Department of Urology at Ramban Medical Center, Haifa

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Bladder Cancer, Prostate Cancers

Director, Jordan National Cancer Registry
Cancer Research Specialty Area: Cancer Registry, Lymphoma, Breast Cancer

Senior Clinical Research Scientist
Clinical and Technical Advisor
Nairobi Cancer Registry

Ibn Rochd Oncology Center at Hassan the Second University, Morocco

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Breast Cancer

Ibn Rochd Oncology Center at Hassan the Second University

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Cancer Pathology

Hassan VI Univ., Marrakesh

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Cancer Registry

University Hospital of Niamey, Niger

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Breast Cancer

Chairperson, Oman Cancer Association, Oman

Institutional Affiliation: National Center for Health Statistics and Informatics in Public Health, Bucharest, Romania

Director, Ocean Road Cancer Institute Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Professor of Oncology, Muhimbili Faculty of Medicine

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Cervical Cancer, Lymphoma

Saleh Aziz Cancer Institute and Cancer Control Association

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Breast Cancer, Cancer prevention

Uganda Cancer Registry

Cancer Research Specialty Area: HIV-Malignancies

Cancer Disease Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia

Cancer Research Specialty Area: HIV-Malignancies