Symposium: Cancer Disparities and Later Life: Aging and the Accumulation of Health Risks

The University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass) – DF/HCC Partnership to Advance Cancer Health Equity annual symposium will feature keynote, Dr. Jan Mutchler.

Mutchler is professor of gerontology at UMass Boston and the founding director of its Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging. She is the director of the Gerontology Institute at the university’s Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences.Her  scholarship focuses on diversity, inequality, and disparities in aging, seeking to strengthen scholarship and its impact on our growing and diverse older population.

Following the keynote, there will be posters from partnership trainees.

This will be a hybrid event but poster presentations will not be available on zoom.