First Annual Summit Biographies

Jon Kerner, PhD

Dr. Kerner is Deputy Director for Research Dissemination and Diffusion of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Kerner received his B.Sc. from McGill University, his Ph.D. in Community Psychology from New York University, and received post-doctoral training in cancer epidemiology, biostatistics and clinical trials design at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.

After 20 years as an NCI grantee and NIH peer-reviewer, Dr. Kerner joined NCI in March of 2000. His primary responsibilities at NCI include: 1) facilitating the translation of evidence-based interventions into community health practice to improve outcomes in partnership with federal, state and local government and voluntary agencies, and 2) co-leading the NCI Health Disparities Area of Public Health Emphasis investigating the broad social causes of, and policy solutions for, cancer-related health disparities.