Cancer prevention researcher Menon joins UA College of Nursing
Usha Menon, Ph.D., R.N., an expert in health behavior change to reduce health disparities in cancer prevention, has joined the University of Arizona College of Nursing as associate dean for research and global advances.
Menon has garnered $20 million to support her research program, consistently funded by the National Institutes of Health and national foundations, the UA said in a news release.
She joins the UA from Ohio State University, where she served as vice dean, Centennial Professor of Nursing, and director of the Ph.D. and M.S. nursing sciences programs. Before that, she held positions at Arizona State University.
Menon serves on the NIH Health Disparities and Equity Promotion Study Section. She received the inaugural Investigator with a Brilliant Future Award from the American Academy of Nursing/Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science.
