Lara S. Savas, PhD
Associate Professor
Lara.Staub@uth.tmc.edu
Department
Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests
Social Epidemiology
Health Disparities (Race/Ethnicity Gender And Socioeconomic)
Cancer Prevention And Control For Cervical, Breast And Colorectal Cancers
The Community Health Worker / Promotora Model In Community-Based Cancer Prevention Research
Cancer Epidemiology
HPV Vaccination
Health Disparities
Cancer Screening
Contact
Email: Lara.Staub@uth.tmc.edu
Phone: +1 (713) 500-9638
Current Projects
Adolescent Vaccination Project: Multi-Component Interventions for Patients and Providers to Increase HPV Vaccination in a Network of Pediatric Clinics
An initiative to increase initiation and completion of HPV vaccination among male and female patients at TCP, a network of over 50 clinics in the greater Houston area.