Bradley Pollock

Brad Pollock, PhD, MPH, FACE, is a Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology, and Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of California (UC) Davis School of Medicine, and Chair of the Graduate Group in Public Health Sciences. Dr. Pollock is a Principal Investigator of the Children’s Oncology Group National Cancer Institute (NCI) Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Research Base grant supporting a network of most North American cancer treatment sites devoted to childhood and adolescent cancer research. He is a leading researcher on the epidemiology and control of childhood and adolescent cancers, including environmental and genetic causes of cancer. His national leadership roles included inaugural Co-Chair of the NCI Cancer Care Delivery Research Steering Committee, and in the NIH-sponsored Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) Consortium he served as Chair of the Biostatistics/Epidemiology/Research Design Key Function Committee and Chair of the CTSA Methods & Processes Domain Task Force. He was past President of the Association of Clinical and Translational Statisticians and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). While his research focus has been in cancer epidemiology and clinical and translational science, from 2020–2022, Dr. Pollock was Chair of the University of California Systemwide Public Health COVID-19 Workgroup. He was Director of Healthy Davis Together, a large-scale intervention project that leveraged public-public and public-private partnerships and new technology to provide an integrated response and recovery strategy to combat COVID-19 in the community.