Virtual lecture and live Q&A
featuring Dr. Otis W. Brawley
Dr. Otis W. Brawley, a globally recognized expert in cancer prevention and control and related areas of public policy, will talk and take our questions on his ongoing work to address cancer health disparities through his current leadership of a broad interdisciplinary research effort at the Johns Hopkins University as well as previous service as Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of the American Cancer Society.
At Johns Hopkins, Dr. Brawley is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center in the School of Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a frequent, frank, insightful, and engaging commentator on cancer and health disparities. If you follow the news, you are likely to know him when you see or hear him. Dr. Brawley has published more than 200 scientific articles and wrote How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America (2011) for the lay audience. A native Detroiter, he is a graduate of the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and the College and Medical School of the University of Chicago.
“… I believe that health care is a human right. So to me, disparity exists when any human being doesn’t get the services all humans are entitled to. ”
About Dr. Otis Brawley
Otis Brawley is a globally-recognized expert in cancer prevention and control. He has worked to reduce over-screening of medical conditions, which has revolutionized patient treatment by increasing quality of life and reducing health disparities.
Brawley’s research focuses on developing cancer screening strategies and ensuring their effectiveness. He has championed efforts to decrease smoking and implement other lifestyle risk reduction programs, as well as to provide critical support to cancer patients and concentrate cancer control efforts in areas where they could be most effective. Brawley currently leads a broad interdisciplinary research effort on cancer health disparities at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, striving to close racial, economic, and social disparities in the prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer in the United States and worldwide. He also directs community outreach programs for underserved populations throughout Maryland.
Brawley joined Johns Hopkins University as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in 2019 from the American Cancer Society and Emory University.