Jesse J. Plascak

Jesse J. Plascak studies how neighborhood conditions—such as disinvestment, segregation, gentrification, and socioeconomic change—affect cancer risk, cancer prevention behaviors, and cancer outcomes, with particular attention to Black and Hispanic/Latino communities. His work combines cancer epidemiology with social and geographic data (including tools like Google Street View) to examine how place-based and discrimination-related factors contribute to health disparities. Prospective students would likely engage with large cohort datasets and population health methods applied to cancer and chronic disease outcomes.

Publication output has grown substantially over the past decade, rising from occasional outputs in the late 2010s to a sharp increase peaking in 2023, with continued high activity through 2025.

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