BRAD POLLOCK was named chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the UC Davis School of Medicine.
Pollock came to UC Davis from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where he was the founding chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Medicine.
He is the principal investigator of a $19 million NCI grant to engage community physicians in expanding participation in cancer clinical trials as well as research on cancer control and cancer care delivery. The grant includes a focus on underserved populations, including Latinos, adolescents and young adults. While his research focuses on pediatric oncology, Pollock also has extensive experience in multi-institutional studies on adult cancer, HIV, diabetes and obesity.
He also co-chairs the Clinical Trials Task Force for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s PCORnet national network, and he previously chaired the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Research Design Key Function Committee of the national Clinical Translational Science Award Program.
