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Imani Canton, PhD, MPH

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Cancer Prevention Fellow

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Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch (HCIRB)

Behavioral Research Program (BRP)

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Imani Canton, PhD, MPH, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program in the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch of the Behavioral Research Program.

Dr. Canton’s research examines neighborhood social, economic, and built environment factors impact on the health and well-being among cancer survivors. Specifically, Dr. Canton is interested in understanding the interplay between the neighborhood contextual factors on physical activity, health-related quality of life, and physical functioning.

Dr. Canton earned her PhD in Kinesiology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and her MPH from Yale University on the Applied Biostatistics and Epidemiology track. For her dissertation, she conducted an 8-week culturally-tailored community gardening intervention to examine if community gardening could be an effective approach to increase physical activity levels and improve psychological health among middle-aged African American women.

Scientific Interests

  • Social epidemiology
  • Long term cancer survivorship
  • Neighborhood built environment
  • Physical activity as cancer preventive behavior

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