Bettina Drake, PhD, MPH

Bettina Drake, PhD, MPH

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine

Research Interest

Identifying the modifiable and nonmodifiable risk factors for cancer as well as the at-risk groups for these factors; utilizing epidemiologic methods to understand the interactions between behavioral and biologic determinants of adverse cancer outcomes; and contributing to the translation of epidemiological findings into behavioral interventions at the individual and population level.

Education

  • 2003: MPH, epidemiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth
  • 2006: PhD, epidemiology, University of South Carolina, Columbia

Training

  • 2006 - 2009: Postdoctoral fellow, social epidemiology, Harvard University, Boston

Selected Research Publications

A Community-Engaged Approach to Enhancing Participation in Genomic Research in Rare and Understudied Cancer Populations.
  • Khan S, Martin-Giacalone B, Wallace K, [...] Drake BF
  • Int J Environ Res Public Health 2025
Overcoming Systemic Barriers to Make Patient-Partnered Research a Reality.
  • Venkataraman V, Martin-Giacalone BA, Drake BF, [...] George S
  • J Clin Oncol 2024
Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants.
  • Wang A, Shen J, Rodriguez AA, [...] Drake BF, [...] Haiman CA
  • Nat Genet 2023

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