Jacqueline B. Vo

Dr. Vo obtained a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (2014) and Doctor of Philosophy (2018) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and a Master of Public Health (2019) with a focus in quantitative methods at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. During her doctoral training, Dr. Vo was a Robert Wood Johnson Future of Nursing Scholar and Susan G. Komen Graduate Trainee in Disparities Research, and she received the American Cancer Society Doctoral Degree Scholarship in Cancer Nursing. Dr. Vo also received the Dean’s Award and was the 2018 Commencement Speaker for the UAB Doctoral Hooding. At the National Cancer Institute (NCI)/National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Vo was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program from 2018-2022, Assistant Clinical Investigator from 2022-2024, and Tenure-Track Investigator from 2024-2025. She received the Merit Award, Director’s Award for Mentoring and Emerging Leader, and received the NIH Distinguished Scholar Award. At NCI, Dr. Vo co-led the NCI-Kaiser Permanente Breast Cancer Survivors Cohort, a retrospective cohort of ~30,000 breast cancer survivors across 4 centers nationally linking data from cancer registries, medical records, claims and prescription data, and vital statistics. As a devoted nurse-epidemiologist, Dr. Vo’s conducts emerging research that has high potential for translating back to the clinical setting to improve the lives of cancer patients.