5 questions with ACCC’s first-ever Black female president, Nadine J. Barrett, PhD, MA, MPH

As the first-ever Black female president of the Association of Cancer Care Centers, Nadine J. Barrett, PhD, MA, MPH, understands the impact she will have on the next generation to come.

She is a nationally recognized leader in facilitating community/stakeholder and academic partnerships to advance health equity and develop training methods to address implicit bias and structural and systemic racism that limit diverse participation in clinical and translational research and access to quality health care, according to a press release.

Healio spoke with Barrett about her goals for the ACCC during her term, the importance of young women — and specifically women of color — to see her at the helm of a national cancer organization, and her advice for other women in medicine.