PhD, MSPH
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
UNC-Chapel Hill
Cancer Prevention and Control
Area of Interest
Mya L. Roberson, MSPH, PhD is an assistant professor of health policy and management in the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health. Mya’s research interests are in achieving equity in cancer care delivery, especially among Black people in the United States South.
Methodologically she bridges patient engagement with approaches using large healthcare data such as administrative claims and electronic medical record data to promote cancer health equity. Substantively Mya’s research has included work on population-level trends in cancer treatment, survivorship care for people living with metastatic breast cancer, and improving access to genetic and genomic services delivery for marginalized populations.
Awards and Honors
- American Association for Cancer Research in Partnership with Victoria’s Secret and Pelotonia Career Development Award, 2022
- National Cancer Institute Diversity Supplement Recipient, 2022
- Delta Omega Public Health Honors Society, 2021
- University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health Robert Craft Millikan Cancer Epidemiology Award, 2020
- Aspen Ideas Scholar, 2019
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar, 2017
- American Association for Cancer Research Scholar-in-Training Travel Award, 2017
- Truman Scholar, 2015
