Health Equity Workgroup

The Health Equity Workgroup evaluates and develops guidance on how the implementation of MCED technologies could be used to reduce healthcare disparities and advance health equity. This workgroup includes representatives from organizations focused on serving minority and underserved populations in their local communities.

Please read our latest Guidance and visit our Workgroup Resources page for information for our other workgroups.

Building Health Equity through Research Study Design for Multicancer Early Detection Tests: Key Considerations

Patient Barriers to Care: A Health Equity Landscape Analysis for Emerging Multicancer Early Detection

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 Workgroup Leadership

  • Esther Krofah

    US Chair
    Executive Director
    FasterCures and Center for Public Health

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  • Kate Brain

    UK Deputy Chair
    Professor of Health Psychology
    Cardiff University’s School of Medicine

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 Workgroup Membership

  • Durado Brooks, MD

    Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Screening
    Exact Science

  • William G. Cance, MD

    Distinguished Scientist, Medical Affairs
    GRAIL

  • Pamela Ganschow, MD

    Director, Cancer Prevention and Survivorship Clinical Programs

    Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine University of Illinois Cancer Center

  • Carmen Guerra

    Associate Professor of Medicine Vice Chair of Diversity and Inclusion

    Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

  • Tawana Thomas Johnson

    Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer
    American Cancer Society

  • Laura Marlow, PhD

    Senior Research Fellow
    King’s College London

  • Folasade May, MD, PhD, MPhil

    Associate Director
    UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity

  • Gary Puckrein, PhD

    President and Chief Executive Officer
    National Minority Quality Forum

  • Harriet Quinn-Scoggins, PhD

    Research Associate, Cancer Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis Theme
    Cardiff University School of Medicine, Division of Population

  • Rudene Mercer Haynes

    Board Member VCU Massey Cancer Center

  • Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD, MPH, MPA

    Founder & CEO Grapevine Health