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Michaela Dinan, PhD

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

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Associate Professor Tenure

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

Biography

Dr. Michaela Dinan is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Yale School of Public Health, and Co-Leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at the Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine. She is also a member of the Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy, and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) Center. 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 involves issues related to 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 leading an NCI-funded R01 study examining multi-level factors that contribute to disparities in access and adherence to oral anticancer agents for patients with kidney cancer. 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.

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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 Policy; Women's Health; Health Equity, Disparities, Social Determinants and Justice; Pharmacoepidemiology

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Michaela Dinan's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

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Chronic Disease Epidemiology

PO Box 208034, 60 College St

New Haven, CT 06520

United States

Locations

  • Ste 444

    Academic Office

    60 College Street

    New Haven, CT 06510