Faculty and Staff Profile

Rachel Mayo

Educational Background

PhD Health Promotion and Education
University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health 1997

MA Microbiology
University of Arkansas 1993

BS Natural Science
University of Arkansas 1991

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Dr. Rachel Mayo is a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Clemson University. She has been the principal or co-investigator on more than $4 million in grants and contracts to support this work. She is currently the site PI for the DHHS-funded MAiN Project, an intervention for babies born to opiod-dependent mothers. Her research interests include cancer prevention and control and health disparities among minority and underserved, particularly African American and Latino populations. She has recently served as co-PI on a National Institutes of Health grant to examine medical and nursing students’ readiness to treat Latino patients. She was the site PI of a National Cancer Institute grant collaboration with the University of South Carolina to train breast and cervical cancer survivors to “witness” about their experience with cancer in African American churches to increase participation in breast and cervical cancer screenings. She has studied the health problems of breast and cervical cancer, diabetes and other chronic diseases among Latino, African American and underserved communities for the past 20+ years. She has served on a number of state and national boards including: CDC Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer in Young Women; AcademyHealth, Health Disparities Interest group; SC Central Cancer Registry Surveillance Committee; SC Cancer Alliance Board; Cervical Cancer Free South Carolina, Executive committee; Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina, Health Disparities Task Force

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