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Parisa Tehranifar is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.  She received her DrPH in Sociomedical Sciences in 2004, and served as the Deputy Director of Research and Surveillance in the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for three years.  Dr. Tehranifar returned to Columbia to complete a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in Cancer-Related Population Sciences, funded by the National Cancer Institute.  Dr. Tehranifar’s broad research area is on social determinants of cancer risk and survival.  She is the PI of a study investigating the role of medical advances to social disparities in cancer survival.  Dr. Tehranifar is currently pursuing three lines of research: examining the effect of social conditions across the lifecourse and generations on cancer-related outcomes, the contribution of social conditions as fundamental sources of racial/ethnic disparities in cancer survival, and understanding the relationship between social factors and biomarkers of cancer risk.