Scarlett Lin Gomez, M.P.H. and Ph.D. in Epidemiology, is Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a member of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, at the University of California, San Francisco. She is Director of the Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry, a participant in the NCI SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results) program and the California Cancer Registry.  Her research focuses primarily on cancer health disparities and aims to understand the multilevel drivers of those disparities. 

Daniel Wiese, PhD is a senior scientist at the American Cancer Society and adjunct assistant professor at Temple University. He is a medical geographer with main research focus on geographic cancer disparities. His expertise is in the application of spatial analytic tools using GIS and remote sensing modeling techniques. He has conducted research on how social and environmental neighborhood factors may influence individual and populational health outcomes,   including several cancer types. 

Ulrike Boehmer, PhD is an Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Boehmer received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from Boston College. Dr. Boehmer’s research interests are in the areas of health disparities, LGBT health, and cancer prevention and control. She is particularly known for her work on LGBT cancer survivorship. Dr. Boehmer is recognized as a leader in LGBT health, especially in the context of cancer. She edited together with Dr. Elk the first book on Cancer and the LGBT population entitled, Cancer and the LGBT Community: Unique perspectives from Risk to Survivorship. She served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer in Young Women, serves on Scientific Advisory Committees for various NIH grants that focus on LGBT health, and is the Associate Editor of the Journal LGBT Health.

Salma Shariff-Marco, PhD, MPH is a social and behavioral scientist with a research portfolio focused on understanding the role of social determinants of health in shaping and perpetuating health disparities. One main area of her research is on place and health, with studies evaluating how neighborhood characteristics (e.g., social, built, and physical environment attributes) and geographic variation may shape cancer-related health behaviors and outcomes across the cancer continuum. In addition, her research includes efforts to better characterize neighborhoods for population health studies (neighborhood archetypes, virtual audits with Google Street View).