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Garth Rauscher, PhD
Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program
Associate Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
School of Public Health
Email: garthr@uic.edu
Garth Rauscher, PhD, is Associate Professor of in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UIC School of Public Health. Much of his research has focused on the role of social determinants of health and structural racism as drivers of disparities in cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment and survival. He is lead for the Metro Chicago Breast Cancer Registry (MCBCR), which is one of six active registries that contribute demographic, radiology and population-based breast cancer data to the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium. He oversaw implementation of the Breast Cancer Care in Chicago (BCCC) study, and has co-authored numerous papers from this population-based study examining racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in breast cancer tumor characteristics, timing and quality of screening and diagnostic care, treatment, DNA methylation, and outcomes.
Education
- PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Research Focus
- Cancer Prevention and Control
- Disparities
- Residential History
- Life Course Epidemiology
- Quality of Care