Leticia Nogueira, PhD, MPH

Scientific Director
Health Services Research

At ACS since 2017

Leticia Nogueira, PhD, MPH, is the scientific director of health services research in the Surveillance & Health Equity Science department at the American Cancer Society (ACS). Her research focuses on determinants of health disparities in the cancer care continuum that can be addressed by policy changes.

Research focus and accomplishments

Nogueira’s work 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 patients’ access to treatment and survival, as well as the overlap between climate change and cancer causes and solutions.

She was selected as one of the inaugural NIH Climate and Health Scholars and has received various awards, including the:

  • 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