Leticia Nogueira, PhD, MPH

Scientific Director
Health Services Research

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At ACS since 2017

Leticia Nogueira, PhD, MPH, is the scientific director of health services research in the Surveillance, Prevention, & Health Services Research (SPHeRe) at the American Cancer Society (ACS). Dr. Nogueira is thought leader in environmental health, recognized as the first scholar to establish a link between climate change and cancer. She applies a systems thinking approach to her research, identifying modifiable determinants of cancer risk, access to care, and survival that can be addressed by policy changes.

Research focus and accomplishments

Nogueira's work is solution-oriented, addressing the drivers of adverse cancer outcomes and advancing solutions with co-benefits for cancer control. She has contributed to the understanding of how the Affordable Care Act impacts access to cancer care, how climate change and extreme weather events can impact cancer control, including exposure to air pollution, drug shortages, access to medical care, and survival.

Dr. Nogueira is on the editorial board on JCO OP and JNCI, where she is Senior Editor of DEI, served as the invited editor for a special collection at Cancer Causes & Control, and received several awards in recognition of her work including:

  • Woman in Cancer Research and Minority Scholar in Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research

  • Fellows Award for Research Excellence from the National Institutes of Health

  • Induction into the University of Texas College of Natural Sciences' Hall of Honors in 2018

To learn more about Nogueira's work, listen to this podcast: Global Climate Change and Cancer Care

Publications

For a full list of Dr. Nogueira’s publications, see her Google Scholar page. 

Contact 

 

Work before ACS

  • Texas Department of State Health Services
    • Director of the Environmental and Injury Epidemiology and Toxicology Unit
    • Epidemiology Manager at the Texas Cancer Registry
  • National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Cancer Prevention Postdoctoral Fellow

Professional organizations

  • Society of Behavioral Medicine; Climate Change, Behavior, and Health Committee; Presidential Working Group Co-chair
  • College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Deans Advisory Committee, Member
  • American College of Surgeons, Commission on Cancer, Quality Integration Committee, Member

Education

  • MPH: Quantitative Methods, Harvard School of Public Health
  • PhD: Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin