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   <name>Brian Rivers, Ph.D., M.P.H.</name>
   <title>Director</title>
   <department>Cancer Health Equity Institute</department>
   <title2></title2>
   <department2></department2>
   <email>brivers@msm.edu</email>
   <phone>(404) 752-1127</phone>
   <location>National Center for Primary Care</location>
   <education>
      <strong>GRADUATE:
         <br></br>
      </strong>University of Alabama at Birmingham
      <br></br>University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
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      <strong>Degree:</strong> Doctor of Philosophy in Health Behavior
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      <br></br>Morehouse School of Medicine
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      <strong>Degree:</strong> Master of Science in Public Health - Social and Behavioral Science
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      <strong>UNDERGRADUATE:</strong>
      <br></br>Vanderbilt University
      <br></br>
      <strong>Degree:</strong> Bachelor of Science in Biology
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   </education>
   <research>Community-based participatory research, cancer health disparities, mobile health,
      integrated biological and behavioral science
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   <clinicalinterests></clinicalinterests>
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   <publications>
      <p>Green BL, Rivers DA, Kumar N, Baldwin J, 
         <strong>Rivers BM</strong>, Sultan D, Jacobsen P, Gordon LE, Davis J, Roetzheim R. Establishing the infrastructure
         to comprehensively address cancer disparities: a model for transdisciplinary approaches.
         J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2013 Nov;24(4):1614-23. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0186.
         PMID: 24185157; PMCID: PMC4163783.
      </p>
      <p>
         <br></br>*Wilson DS, Dapic V, Sultan DH, August EM, Green BL, Roetzheim R, 
         <strong>Rivers B.</strong> Establishing the infrastructure to conduct comparative effectiveness research toward
         the elimination of disparities: a community-based participatory research framework.
         Health Promot Pract. 2013 Nov;14(6):893-900. doi: 10.1177/1524839913475451. Epub 2013
         Feb 21. PMID: 23431128; PMCID: PMC4163786.
      </p>
      <p>
         <br></br>
         <strong>Rivers BM</strong>, Bernhardt JM, Fleisher L, Green BL. Opportunities and Challenges of Using Technology
         to Address Health Disparities. Future Oncology. 2014;10(4):519-22. PMID: 24754582.
      </p>
      <p>
         <br></br>Gwede CK, Davis SN, Wilson S, Patel M, Vadaparampil ST, Meade CD, 
         <strong>Rivers BM</strong>, Yu D, Torres-Roca J, Heysek R, Spiess PE, Pow-Sang J, Jacobsen P. Perceptions of
         Prostate Cancer Screening Controversy and Informed Decision Making: Implications for
         Development of a Targeted Decision Aid for Unaffected Male First-Degree Relatives.
         Am J Health Promot. 2014 Jun 26. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24968183; PMCID: PMC4277494.
      </p>
      <p>
         <br></br>Skolarus TA, Wolf AM, Erb NL, Brooks DD, 
         <strong>Rivers BM</strong>, Underwood W 3rd, Salner AL, Zelefsky MJ, Aragon-Ching JB, Slovin SF, Wittmann DA,
         Hoyt MA, Sinibaldi VJ, Chodak G, Pratt-Chapman ML, Cowens-Alvarado RL. American Cancer
         Society prostate cancer survivorship care guidelines. CA Cancer J Clin. 2014 Jul-Aug;64(4):225-49.
         doi: 10.3322/caac.21234. Epub 2014 Jun 10. Erratum in: CA Cancer J Clin. 2014 Nov-Dec;64(6):445.
         PMID: 24916760.
      </p>
      <p>
         <br></br>Sultan DH, 
         <strong>Rivers BM</strong>, Osongo BO, Wilson DS, Schenck A, Carvajal R, Rivers D, Roetzheim R, Green BL. Affecting
         African American men's prostate cancer screening decision-making through a mobile
         tablet-mediated intervention. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2014 Aug;25(3):1262-77.
         doi: 10.1353/hpu.2014.0148. PMID: 25130238; PMCID: PMC4160127.
      </p>
      <p>
         <br></br>Davis SN, Sutton SK, Vadaparampil ST, Meade CD, 
         <strong>Rivers BM</strong>, Patel MV, Torres-Roca JF, Heysek RV, Spiess P, Pow-Sang J, Jacobsen PB, Gwede CK.
         Informed decision making among first-degree relatives of prostate cancer survivors:
         a pilot randomized trial. Contemp Clin Trials. 2014 Nov;39(2):327-34. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2014.10.007.
         Epub 2014 Oct 23. PMID: 25465497; PMCID: PMC4274628.
      </p>
      <p>
         <br></br>Davis JL, 
         <strong>Rivers BM</strong>, Rivers D, Tucker CM, Desmond FF, Arthur TM, Wippold GM, Green BL. A Community-Level
         Assessment of Barriers to Preventive Health Behaviors Among Culturally Diverse Men.
         Am J Mens Health. 2015 Mar 17. pii: 1557988315575997. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:
         25787987.
      </p>
      <p>
         <br></br>Tucker CM, Wippold GM, Guastello AD, Arthur TM, Desmond FF, 
         <strong>Rivers BM</strong>, Davis JL, Rivers D, Green BL. Predictors of Cancer Screening among Culturally Diverse
         Men. American Journal of Men’s Health. 2016 April 26. PMID: 27118456.
      </p>
      <p>
         <br></br>*Ojeaga A., Alema-Mensah E., Rivers DA., Azonobi I., 
         <strong>Rivers B.</strong> Racial Disparities in HPV-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs Among African
         American and White Women in the USA. Journal of Cancer Education. 2017 August 14.
         PMID: 28808906.
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      </p>
      <p>Click 
         <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=brian+rivers">here</a> to view additional publications.
         <br></br>
         <br></br>*Denotes Research Mentee
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      </p>
   </publications>
   <awards>
      <p>2017 - Chair-Elect, Minorities in Cancer Research Council, American Association for
         Cancer Research (AACR)
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         <br></br>2015 - Council Member, National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities,
         National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIH
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         <br></br>2014 - "Division of Population Science 2014 Award for Outstanding Faculty Performance"
         in Health Outcomes &amp; Behavior 
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         <br></br>2010 - Health Disparities Scholar, NIH National Institutes on Minority Health and
         Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program 
         <br></br>
         <br></br>2008 - Health Disparities Scholar, NIH National Institutes on Minority Health and
         Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program
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      </p>
   </awards>
</profile>