Kimlin Tam Ashing

Professor Beckman Research Institute, Deputy Director Division of Health Equities, Founding Director of the Center of Community Alliance for Research and Education · City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

Dr. Ashing is Professor Beckman Research Institute, Deputy Director Division of Health Equities, and Founding Director of the Center of Community Alliance for Research and Education at City of Hope Medical Center. As an advocate-population scientist, she is working closely with multiethnic, and multisectoral partners to develop and implement evidenced based, culturally, clinically and community responsive health improvement studies and interventions. Her mission is to conduct multidisciplinary, translational research while engaging advocates and civil society in science to speed-up and ensure the public benefit of biomedical research and advancements. She holds several national leadership roles, such as in the American Association for Cancer Researchers. She is a leader within the NIH-funded African-Caribbean Cancer Consortium where she co-chairs the Women’s Cancers Working-Group; Society of Behavioral Medicine, Cancer Special Interest Group-Health Equity; CancerCare Patient Values Initiative_Patient Values Working-Group; ASCO-Depression and Anxiety Expert Panel. She is a Life member of Association of Black Psychologists. She is a notable leader in examining health disparities, cancer inequities and survivorship. She has published over 130 articles and book chapters. In 2017, she coauthored Detecting and Living with Breast Cancer: for Dummies, Wiley, NY. She thrives on faith, family, science to society, and organic gardening. She is co-Principal investigator along with Pastor McCall and other leaders for the iCCaRE Consortium for Black men focused on improving survivorship care and outcomes.

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