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Michaela Dinan, PhD

Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
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Associate Cancer Center Director for Research Training and Education, Yale Cancer Center

Co-Director, Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) Center, Yale School of Medicine

Co-Leader, Cancer Prevention and Control, Yale Cancer Center

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Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Associate Cancer Center Director for Research Training and Education, Yale Cancer Center; Co-Director, Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) Center, Yale School of Medicine; Co-Leader, Cancer Prevention and Control, Yale Cancer Center

Biography

Dr. Michaela Dinan is a Professor of Epidemiology in the Yale School of Public Health, Associate Cancer Center Director for Cancer Research Training and Education at the Yale Cancer Center (YCC) as well as Co-Director of the Yale Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy, and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) Center. She is also co-leader of the YCC Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program. Dr. Dinan has extensive research expertise in leveraging existing real-world data sources as well as novel data linkages to examine oncology outcomes.

Dr. Dinan is a health services researcher by training and she specializes in using econometric and epidemiologic methodologies to analyze complex datasets. Specifically, Dr. Dinan's research examines advances in cancer care technologies, such as emerging treatments and diagnostics, and how these advances in technologies impact different cancer outcomes and experiences such as access, quality of care, cost of care, and health disparities.

Dr. Dinan has led studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She is currently MPI of an NCI-funded R01 study examining broad genomic profiling in patients with lung cancer to determine how testing and test results impact treatment, survival, and costs of care. Dr. Dinan is also leading a study funded by the ACS to develop and validate risk prediction algorithms to inform efficient and high-quality care for long-term cancer survivors.

In 2021, Dr. Dinan led the first linkage of the Medicare claims data to physical tumor specimens and cancer registry data. This proof-of-concept study was the first to demonstrate the ability to combine the detailed clinicopathologic data from the SEER Registry, the longitudinal follow-up provided by the Medicare claims data, with genomic sequence data obtained from the physical tumor specimen all into one dataset. Dr. Dinan is the PI of an ACS Research Scholar Grant building on this novel data linkage to determine the molecular etiology of aggressive screening-detected breast cancers.

Last Updated on October 05, 2025.

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Education & Training

PhD
University of North Carolina, Health Policy and Management (2011)

Research

Overview

Dr. Dinan has extensive research expertise in leveraging existing real-world data sources as well as novel data linkages to examine oncology outcomes. She is a health services researcher with training in econometric and epidemiologic methodologies to analyze complex datasets. Specifically, Dr. Dinan's research involves issues related to access and quality of care, health disparities, and cost of care for cancer patients.



Medical Research Interests

Breast Neoplasms; Cancer Survivors; Carcinoma, Renal Cell; Chronic Disease; Colonic Neoplasms; Costs and Cost Analysis; Epidemiology; Risk Assessment; Urologic Neoplasms

Public Health Interests

Aging; Cancer; Chronic Diseases; Health Equity, Disparities, Social Determinants and Justice; Health Policy; Women's Health; Pharmacoepidemiology

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Michaela Dinan's published research.

Publications

2026

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Chronic Disease Epidemiology

PO Box 208034, 60 College St

New Haven, CT 06520

United States

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    New Haven, CT 06510

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