Electra D. Paskett, PhD

At the Ohio State University, Dr. Electra Paskett is the Marion N. Rowley Professor of Cancer Research and Director of the Cancer Prevention and Control Division in the Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, a professor in the Division of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, and the Founding Director of the Center for Cancer Health Equity at the James Cancer Hospital. She has served as Co-leader of the Cancer Control Program and Associate Director of Population Sciences and Community Outreach in the Comprehensive Cancer Center since 2002. She received her doctorate in epidemiology from the University of Washington. Dr. Paskett’s almost 400 peer-reviewed publications showcase her work in intervention research directed at cancer prevention, early detection, and survivorship issues. Her studies use multi-level interventions in transdisciplinary teams with community-based participatory research to identify and intervene on factors causing disparities among underserved populations such as social and ethnic minority groups and rural/ underserved populations. Dr. Paskett successfully competed for an NCI-funded P50, Center for Population Health and Health Disparities, to examine why rates of cervical cancer are high in Appalachia Ohio and is the Multiple Principal Investigator (MPI) of a large cervical cancer prevention program project in Appalachian regions of four states. In 2016, she was appointed by President Obama as a member of the National Cancer Institute’s National Cancer Advisory Board, and in 2020 she was appointed by Governor Mike DeWine as a member of the Ohio Commission on Minority Health.