Ronny Bell, PhD, MS is Professor of Social Sciences and Health Policy in the Division of Public Health Sciences at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. Dr. Bell is also Associate Director of Community Outreach and Engagement and Director of the Office of Cancer Health Equity at the Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr. Bell is a member of the Lumbee tribe of eastern North Carolina, and currently serves a Chair of the North Carolina American Indian Health Board. He is a member of the North Carolina Advisory Committee on Cancer Coordination and Control and co-chairs the NC ACCCC Prevention Subcommittee. In 2019, he was appointed as Scientific Co-Editor for the North Carolina Medical Journal. He previously served as Chair of the North Carolina Diabetes Advisory Council and Co-Chair of the Healthy North Carolina 2030 Task Force.
Dr. Bell completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Gerontology and completed a Master’s in Epidemiology (1996) from the Wake Forest School of Medicine. Dr. Bell received his Doctorate (1993) and masters (1988) in Foods and Nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He completed his undergraduate degree in Public Health Nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health (1985).