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Leticia Nogueira

Scientific Director, American Cancer Society

Leticia Nogueira, PhD, MPH, is a Scientific Director of Health Services research at the Surveillance and Health Equity Sciences Department at the American Cancer Society. Dr. Nogueira’s research focuses on cancer disparities that can be addressed through policy changes, especially those related to climate change and structural racism. She also holds an Adjunct Professor position at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

In 2023, she was selected as one of the inaugural NIH Climate Change and Health Scholars. Earlier in her career she received the Fellows Award for Research Excellence from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Woman in Cancer Research and the Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Awards from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). More recently, she was inducted into the Hall of Honors at the University of Texas at Austin, where she serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council and was also awarded the Outstanding Young Alumni Award.
Dr. Nogueira earned her PhD in molecular biology from the University of Texas at Austin and her MPH in Quantitative Methods from the Harvard School of Public Health.

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