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42794
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11114
National Ranking
5719

Overview

Robert A. Hiatt is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a focus on Oncology, General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Research topics include Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, Health disparities and outcomes, Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection, Cancer Risks and Factors, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Climate Change and Health Impacts, and Health Literacy and Information Accessibility.

Frequent co-authors in Robert A. Hiatt's academic work include Urmimala Sarkar, Natalie A. Rivadeneira, Arash Naeim, Barbara A. Parker, and Lisa Madlensky.

Many publications appear in venues such as Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, PLoS ONE, UNC Libraries, Cancer Research, and The Lancet Oncology, reflecting the scholar's multidisciplinary research reach within the cancer research community.

Selected recent papers authored by Robert A. Hiatt include:

  • Cancer and climate change, 2020, The Lancet Oncology
  • A Case-Control Study to Evaluate Environmental and Lifestyle Risk Factors for Esophageal Cancer in Tanzania, 2020, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Girls' Pubertal Timing and Tempo and Mental Health: A Longitudinal Examination in an Ethnically Diverse Sample, 2021, Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Factors associated with biomedical research participation within community-based samples across 3 National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers, 2020, Cancer
  • Impact of language preference and health literacy on health information-seeking experiences among a low-income, multilingual cohort, 2021, Patient Education and Counseling

Best Publications

  • Revised Bethesda Guidelines for Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer (Lynch Syndrome) and Microsatellite Instability

    Asad Umar;C. Richard Boland;Jonathan P. Terdiman;Sapna Syngal

  • Breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy: collaborative reanalysis of data from 51 epidemiological studies of 52 705 women with breast cancer and 108 411 women without breast cancer

    E. E. Calle;C. W. Heath;R. J. Coates;J. M. Liff

  • Design of the Women's Health Initiative clinical trial and observational study

    G. Anderson;S. Cummings;L. S. Freedman;C. Furberg

  • Breast cancer and hormonal contraceptives : collaborative reanalysis of individual data on 53.297 women with breast cancer and 100.239 women without breast cancer from 54 epidemiological studies

    E. E. Calle;C. W. Heath;H. L. Miracle-McMahill;R. J. Coates

  • Folate deficiency causes uracil misincorporation into human DNA and chromosome breakage: Implications for cancer and neuronal damage

    Benjamin C. Blount;Matthew M. Mack;Carol M. Wehr;James T. MacGregor

  • Diffusion Theory and Knowledge Dissemination, Utilization, and Integration in Public Health

    Lawrence W Green;Judith M Ottoson;César García;Robert A Hiatt

  • Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer - Collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 58 515 women with breast cancer and 95 067 women without the disease

    N Hamajima;K Hirose;K Tajima;T Rohan

  • Menarche, menopause, and breast cancer risk: Individual participant meta-analysis, including 118 964 women with breast cancer from 117 epidemiological studies

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

  • Identifying Women With Cervical Neoplasia: Using Human Papillomavirus DNA Testing for Equivocal Papanicolaou Results

    M. Michele Manos;Walter K. Kinney;Leo B. Hurley;Mark E. Sherman

  • Breast Cancer and Serum Organochlorines: a Prospective Study Among White, Black, and Asian Women

    Nancy Krieger;Mary S. Wolff;Robert A. Hiatt;Marilyn Rivera

  • Approaching Health Disparities From a Population Perspective: The National Institutes of Health Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities

    Richard B. Warnecke;April Oh;Nancy Breen;Sarah Gehlert

  • Trends and disparities in socioeconomic and behavioural characteristics, life expectancy, and cause-specific mortality of native-born and foreign-born populations in the United States, 1979–2003

    Gopal K Singh;Robert A Hiatt

  • Concordance of Self-reported Data and Medical Record Audit for Six Cancer Screening Procedures

    Nancy P. Gordon;Robert A. Hiatt;Dominique I. Lampert

  • Type and timing of menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer risk: individual participant meta-analysis of the worldwide epidemiological evidence

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

  • Calcium Plus Vitamin D Supplementation and the Risk of Breast Cancer

    Rowan T Chlebowski;Karen C Johnson;Charles Kooperberg;Mary Pettinger

  • Interventions to prevent skin cancer by reducing exposure to ultraviolet radiation: A systematic review

    Mona Saraiya;Karen Glanz;Peter A. Briss;Phyllis Nichols

  • Misconceptions About Cancer Among Latinos and Anglos

    Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable;Fabio Sabogal;Regina Otero-Sabogal;Robert A. Hiatt

  • Promoting informed decisions about cancer screening in communities and healthcare systems.

    Peter Briss;Barbara Rimer;Barbara Reilley;Ralph C Coates

  • Investigation of Relationships between Urinary Biomarkers of Phytoestrogens, Phthalates, and Phenols and Pubertal Stages in Girls

    Mary S Wolff;Susan L Teitelbaum;Susan M. Pinney;Gayle C. Windham

  • The increased risk of coronary heart disease associated with nephrotic syndrome

    Juan D. Ordoñez;Robert A. Hiatt;Ellen J. Killebrew;Bruce H. Fireman

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence H. Kushi
Lawrence H. Kushi Kaiser Permanente
Gary D. Friedman
Gary D. Friedman Kaiser Permanente
Bruce Fireman
Bruce Fireman Kaiser Permanente
Susan L. Teitelbaum
Susan L. Teitelbaum Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mary S. Wolff
Mary S. Wolff Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Charles P. Quesenberry
Charles P. Quesenberry Kaiser Permanente
Dan H. Moore
Dan H. Moore University of California, San Francisco
Barbara K. Rimer
Barbara K. Rimer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Julianna Deardorff
Julianna Deardorff University of California, Berkeley
Bette J. Caan
Bette J. Caan Kaiser Permanente

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