Over the coming weeks, the Department of Allied Health Sciences will be welcoming four candidates for a new Assistant Professor position focused on Health Disparities Research. See full position description.
Please join us for the second candidate's talk (45 minutes plus 15 minutes of discussion):
October 25, 2018 | 11:30-12:30 P.M. | Koons Hall 217
Mark Manning, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine/Karmanos Cancer Institute)
“Information, Behavioral Decision-Making, and Between-Race Differences in Health Outcomes: Breast Density Notification and Breast Cancer Risk-Concordant Follow-Up”
Between-race differences in how individuals use different types of information for health behavioral decision-making can lead to differences in health outcomes. I have been examining these dynamics in the context of women’s behavioral and psychological responses to receiving breast density notifications in the state of Michigan. I provide background as to why we would expect between-race differences in this context, and will present my own findings relevant to between-race differences in processes and outcomes following receipt of breast density notification. Finally, I will discuss how those findings guide proposed research examining between-race differences in post-notification follow-up behaviors that are concordant with women’s individual breast cancer risk.
For more information, contact: Bambi Mroz at bambi.mroz@uconn.edu