The DREAM Lab is studying health disparities using population-based data
The DREAM (Disparities Research: Environment And oMics) Lab, housed in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, is a multidisciplinary research team studying and addressing health disparities at the population level, with the goal of collecting complete population-based data ranging from biological data to neighborhood and policy contextual data. The team moved to UCSF just over a year ago from the Cancer Prevention Institute of California. With this move also came the Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry, one of the earliest registries with the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program of the NCI.
Led by Scarlett Lin Gomez, PhD, MPH, Iona Cheng, PhD, MPH, and Salma Shariff-Marco, PhD, MPH, the team includes epidemiologists and analysts who are skilled at molecular epidemiology, “big data”, geospatial analyses, data visualization, and the design of recruitment and outreach materials, as well as bi-lingual and bi-cultural field staff.