Joni D. Nelson, PhD, MS, BS

Assistant Professor
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina

What are your long-term career goals?

“As a public health researcher, my professional purpose lies in my passion for research on population oral health, social drivers of health, head and neck cancer and advancing an interprofessional health workforce to reduce population health disparities. As part of my research objective, I aim to conduct mixed-methods research that results in identifying individual healthcare decision making and health systems utilization to create more humanistic and efficient solutions for care to address cancer equity.”

Abstract #998: Pursuing leadership in literacy to ameliorate head and neck cancer disparities.

Poster Session: PO.CL05.01