I am a public health scholar whose research aims to reduce cancer burden and increase cancer equity for underserved populations locally and globally. As a Social Behavioral Scientist, I leverage expertise in health behavior and health promotion sciences to study cancer education, prevention, screening, and care and to design behavioral interventions to improve community uptake of evidence-based cancer control practices and strategies. I am particularly interested in women’s cancers and cancers of infectious etiology, such as HPV-related cancers.

My previous and ongoing research includes investigation of cervical cancer screening and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa and Ethiopia specifically, a setting in which I have been conducting community-engaged health education and research since 2012. This work has been supported by pre- and post-doctoral NIH training fellowships as a Global Health Equity Scholar (2022-2023) and a Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations Fellow (2019).

Adsul, P., Hariprasad, R., Lott, B.E., Lopez Varon, M. (2022). Advancing the science of implementation for resource-limited settings through bidirectional learning around cervical cancer screening. Ethnicity and Disease, 32(4):269-274. 

Lott, B.E., Halkiyo, A.B., Worku D., Kebede, T., Dedefo, A., Madhivanan, P., Carvajal, S., Ehiri, J., Soliman, A. (2021). Health workers’ perspectives on cervical cancer screening in Ethiopia: Barriers and facilitators to a implementing a new national screening program. BMC Women’s Health, 21(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-021-01331-3

Lott, B.E., Trejo, M.,J., Baum, C., McClelland J., Adsul, P., Madhivanan, P., Carvajal, S., Ernst, K., & Ehiri, J. (2020). Interventions to increase uptake of cervical screening in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review using the Integrated Behavioral Model. BMC Public Health, 20:654. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08777-4.

Lott, B.E., Okusanya, B.O., Anderson, E.J., Kram, N.A., Thomson, C.A., Rosales, C., & Ehiri, J. (2020). Interventions to increase uptake of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in minority populations: A systematic review. Preventive Medicine Reports, 19, 101163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101163

Baum, C., Soliman, A.S., Hablas, A., Seifeldin, I.A., Ramadan, M., Nguyen, A., Lott, B.E., Brown, H.E. (2020). Regional variation of pancreatic cancer in the Nile delta region of Egypt. Journal of Cancer Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/6031708.