page_title: Lucile Adams-Campbell
hierarchical_section_title: Lucile Adams-Campbell
caption_attribution_description: English: Air date:	Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 3:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local Views:	Total views: 160 (85 Live, 75 On-demand) Category:	WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures Runtime:	01:00:26 Description:	NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series Dr. Adams-Campbell's areas of research focus on addressing health disparities with particular emphasis on cancers that disproportionately impact African-Americans. Dr. Adams-Campbell's research focuses on lifestyle interventions including physical activity, energy balance, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and oral health among minority and underserved populations. She has considerable expertise in cohort studies including the Women’s Health Initiative and the Black Women’s Health Study (which follows a cohort of African American women to gather epidemiological data on health risks and disease development). She also oversees the Capital Breast Care Center (CBCC), a community-based patient navigation program. Dr. Adams-Campbell is the Principal Investigator of a Center of Excellence for Health Disparities that focuses on metabolic syndrome and breast cancer risk in an exercise intervention clinical trial. She has more than 200 peer reviewed publications. For more information go to https://oir.nih.gov/wals/2018-2019 NLM Title:	A community approach to breast cancer prevention&#160;: addressing health disparities / Lucile Adams-Campbell. Author:	Adams-Campbell, Lucile. National Institutes of Health (U.S.), Publisher: Abstract:	(CIT): NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series, Dr. Adams-Campbell's areas of research focus on addressing health disparities with particular emphasis on cancers that disproportionately impact African-Americans. Dr. Adams-Campbell's research focuses on lifestyle interventions including physical activity, energy balance, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and oral health among minority and underserved populations. She has considerable expertise in cohort studies including the Women's Health Initiative and the Black Women's Health Study (which follows a cohort of African American women to gather epidemiological data on health risks and disease development). She also oversees the Capital Breast Care Center (CBCC), a community-based patient navigation program. Dr. Adams-Campbell is the Principal Investigator of a Center of Excellence for Health Disparities that focuses on metabolic syndrome and breast cancer risk in an exercise intervention clinical trial. She has more than 200 peer reviewed publications. Subjects:	African Americans Breast Neoplasms--prevention &amp; control Community-Based Participatory Research Health Promotion Health Status Disparities United States Women's Health Publication Types:	Lecture Webcast NLM Classification:	WP 870 NLM ID:	101749140 CIT Live ID:	31983 Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=31983
context_page_description: Lucile L. Adams-Campbell is the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in epidemiology in the United States. She serves as the Professor of Oncology at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Associate Director for Minority Health at the Georgetown University Medical Center. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine and the Washington DC Hall of Fame.
context_section_description: Lucile L. Adams-Campbell (born December 30, 1953) is the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in epidemiology in the United States. She serves as the Professor of Oncology at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Associate Director for Minority Health at the Georgetown University Medical Center. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine and the Washington DC Hall of Fame.
caption: Adams-Campbell speaks at the National Institutes of Health in 2019
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