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Roshan Bastani is Professor of Health Services and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Public Health. She is also Associate Director of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research which is jointly housed in the School of Public Health and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. She teaches courses in Cancer Prevention and Control and Program Evaluation.

Dr. Bastani is a Social/Health Psychologist whose main research interest is the study of access to health care among low-income, ethnic minority and other underserved groups, with a focus on testing the efficacy of patient and health care system directed interventions to improve access. Examples of her federally funded (NIH) research include: a randomized experiment targeting indigent minority women from two public hospitals to enhance utilization of appropriate follow-up diagnostic and treatment services for serious breast abnormalities, a study to understand health system and patient factors related to hepatitis B screening, an experiment to assess the effects of an intervention to promote informed decision making regarding prostate cancer screening among Latinos and a CDC funded prevention program to promote community-based collaborative intervention research projects to reduce ethnic disparities related to tobacco use, obesity and cancer screening. She is also the director of an NCI funded training grant which prepares post doctoral fellows (PhD and MD) to conduct interdisciplinary cancer prevention and control research.

Selected Presentations

The Culture of Health Disparities Research (3/22/06) - view

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Selected Publications

1. Bastani, R., Maxwell, A.E., Bradford, C., Prabhu Das, I., Yan, K. (1999) Tailored Risk Notification for Women with a Family History of Breast Cancer. Preventive Medicine, 29(5): 355-364.

2. Bastani, R., Gallardo, N., Maxwell, A.E.(2001). Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Ethnically Diverse High- and Average Risk Individuals. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 19 (3/4): 65-84.

3. Lavretsky, H., Bastani, R., Gould, R., Huang, D., Llorente, M., Maxwell, A., Jarvik, L., and the UPBEAT Collaborative Group (2002). Predictors of two year mortality in a prospective “UPBEAT” study of elderly veterans with comorbid medical and psychiatric symptoms. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 10(4): 458-468.

4. Bastani, R., Berman, B., Belin, T., Crane, L., Marcus, A., Nasseri, K., Herman-Shipley, N. (2002). Increasing cervical cancer screening among underserved women in a large urban county health system: Can it be done? What does it take? Medical Care. 40(10): 891-907.

5. Maxwell, A.E., Bastani, R., Vida, P., Warda, U.S. (2003). Results of a randomized trial to
increase breast and cervical cancer screening among low-income Filipino-American women. Preventive Medicine 37:102-109.

6. Bastani, R., Yabroff, K.R., Myers, R.E., Glenn, B. (2004) Interventions to Improve Follow-up of Abnormal Findings in Cancer Screening. Cancer, 101(S5):1188-1200.

7. Davidson, P.L., Bastani, R, Nakazono, T.T., Carreon, D.C. (2005). Role of Community Risk Factors and Resources on Breast Carcinoma Stage at Diagnosis. Cancer, 103(5):922-30.

CEHD Co-Director, Dr. Roshan Bastani