Scarlett Lin Gomez

Scarlett Lin Gomez is Professor and Vice Chair of Faculty Development in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. She serves as Co-Leader of the Cancer Control Program for the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Director of the Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry, part of the NCI SEER Program.

Her research centers on structural and social drivers of health disparities, with pioneering work on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander cancer patterns. She developed the California Neighborhoods Data System to evaluate neighborhood environment impacts on disease outcomes and leads the Female Asian Never Smokers (FANS) Study investigating lung cancer etiology. Key funding includes multiple NIH R01 grants focused on ovarian cancer disparities, breast cancer prognosis in Asian populations, and lung cancer in never-smokers.

• Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Ovarian Cancer Treatment (R01CA243188)
• Insights from Asian Populations into Breast Cancer Prognosis (R01CA241125)
• Lung Cancer Etiology Among Asian American Female Never Smokers (R01MD014859)
• Cancer Registry for Understanding Survivorship Experiences (R01CA241128)

Dr. Gomez has received numerous honors including the 2024 AACR Distinguished Lectureship on Cancer Health Disparities and the 2022 ASPO Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr. Award. Her recent publications analyze neighborhood redlining effects, immigrant health patterns, and cancer disparities across diverse populations using innovative registry linkages and multiethnic cohort studies.

As an active AACR leader, she co-chaired the 2024 Cancer Disparities Progress Report and serves on editorial boards for Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. Her work fundamentally advances understanding of how structural racism, immigration status, and neighborhood environments shape cancer outcomes across underrepresented populations.