About Us: Research and Program Staff

Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, PhD, MA, MN, RN
Faculty Associate, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Professor, UCLA School of Public Health and Department of Asian American Studies

Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, PhD, is a professor at the UCLA School of Public Health and Department of Asian American Studies. Presently her research focuses on improving the science of health disparities research and reducing disparities in health outcomes for populations of color, especially Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders.

Kagawa-Singer is the Director of the Concurrent Degree Program Community Health Sciences and Asian American Studies and the Principal Investigator at the UCLA Minority Training Program for Cancer Control Research. She is also the Associate Director of the UCLA Lance Armstrong Center of Excellence for Cancer Survivorship. Kagawa-Singer serves on multiple local, state, and national committees involved with issues of ethnicity and health care. She has published, lectured nationally and internationally, and taught extensively on issues in cross-cultural health care, cancer, pain, grief and bereavement, end of life decision-making, and quality of life. She also serves as consultant to community groups to reach underserved populations with cancer education and services.

She has a masters in mursing degree from UCLA School of Nursing as well as a master degree and PhD in anthropology from UCLA.