Electra D. Paskett, Ph.D., became the Marion N. Rowley Professor of Cancer Research at The Ohio State University (OSU) in 2002. She is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control in the College of
Medicine, Professor in the Division of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health, Deputy Director for Population Sciences and Community Outreach in the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Founding Director of the Center for Cancer Health Equity at the James Cancer Hospital. Dr. Paskett’s over 500 peer-reviewed publications showcase her work in intervention research directed at cancer prevention, early detection, and survivorship issues.
Her studies use multi-level interventions in transdisciplinary teams with community-based
participatory research to identify and intervene on factors causing disparities among
underserved populations such as social and ethnic minority groups and rural/underserved
populations. She is a past-President of the American
Society of Preventive Oncology, a former Deputy Editor of the journal Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, and Section Editor of the journal, Cancer. Dr. Paskett is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Preventive Oncology and Epidemiology. She is Director of the Cancer Control program in Alliance. Dr Paskett has received numerous awards such as the American Society of Preventive Oncology Distinguished Achievement Award, The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Jimmie Holland Award, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Distinguished Lecture Award on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities and the AACR Team Science Award for her long-standing role in the WHI. She as a member of the National Cancer Institute’s National Cancer Advisory Board from 2017 to 2023, and was a member of the Ohio Commission on Minority Health (OCMH) in 2020 and was appointed Chair in 2023.
