Michelle Doose, PhD, MPH

Michelle Doose, PhD, MPH, serves as a program director in the NCI Office of Cancer Survivorship and holds a secondary appointment in the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch (HCIRB) of the Behavioral Research Program. As a program director, Dr. Doose is responsible for advancing cancer survivorship research and supporting programs and initiatives to promote health equity and improve the health of populations that experience cancer disparities. She is particularly interested in research that informs health policy, clinical care, and community health to improve the health and well-being of cancer survivors.

Prior to joining NCI in 2023, Dr. Doose was a program official at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), where she developed and managed a research portfolio of grants focused on the patient-clinician relationship, health care models for multiple chronic conditions, health care for older adults, and addressing misinformation among populations that experience health disparities. Dr. Doose first joined NIH in 2019 as an NCI cancer prevention fellow in the Health Systems and Interventions Research Branch of the Healthcare Delivery Research Program to study care coordination among cancer survivors with multiple chronic conditions.

Dr. Doose has conducted cancer survivorship research funded by NCI and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to study multilevel drivers of cancer care disparities at the policy, community, healthcare system, and care team levels. In addition, Dr. Doose has worked on survivorship interventions for African American/Black breast cancer survivors and Latino/Hispanic adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors. She also has worked as a bilingual and bicultural health educator helping AYA cancer survivors navigate survivorship.

Dr. Doose earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Epidemiology from Rutgers School of Public Health. She is a graduate of RWJF’s Health Policy Research Scholar Program, a national leadership development program in health equity and health policy. She holds a Master of Public Health in Community Health Sciences with a specialization in health education and health promotion from UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and bachelor’s degrees in Spanish and International Studies with an emphasis in Latin America studies from Pepperdine University.

Education
PhD – Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health
MPH – Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
BA – International Studies, Pepperdine University
BA – Spanish, Pepperdine University