Garth Rauscher, PhD

Garth Rauscher, PhD, is Associate Professor 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. He has collaborated with Equal Hope (formerly the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force) on quality improvement initiatives and research on the quality of breast cancer care. He has mentored numerous epidemiology PhD students as part ofUIC R25 and T32 cancer prevention and control training grants.