David Gregorio received a Ph.D. in sociology (University at Buffalo, 1980) for work on the determinants of social movement participation. He subsequently completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Sociology and Epidemiology at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute where he received an M.S. in epidemiology for work on the effects of dietary fat intake on breast cancer survival. After a brief stint in health system planning, he joined the UConn faculty in 1986.

Education

Degree	Institution	Major
BA	Canisius College	Sociology
MA	University at Buffalo	Sociology
PhD	University at Buffalo	Sociology
MS	University at Buffalo	Epidemiology

Post-Graduate Training

Training	Institution	Specialty
Fellowship	University at Buffalo School of Medicine/Roswell Park Cancer Institute	NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medical Sociology, Epidemiology and Control of Cancer

Name & Description	Category	Role	Type	Scope	Start Year	End Year
External Reviewer, Department of Health Sciences, Eastern Connecticut State University	Professional/Scientific Organization	Chairperson of review committee	External	State	2021	2021
AJPM Focus	Editorial Board	Editorial Board Member	External	International	2021	2022
CEPH Accreditation Site-visitor	Professional/Scientific Organization	Senior Accreditation Consultant	External	National	2019	2019
Wright State University Public Health Program	Community Service	Accreditation Consultant	External	National	2019	2019
UConn Health Public Issues Council	Advisory Committee	Committee Member	UConn Health	University	2018	2021
Association for Prevention, Teaching & Research	Advisory Committee	Member	External	National	2018	2019
UCHC-American Association of University Professors Chapter	Professional/Scientific Organization	Collective Bargaining Council Member	External	University	2017	2020
School of Medicine Admissions Committee	Education Committee	Member	UConn Health	University	2016	2020
UCHC-American Association of University Professors Chapter	Professional/Scientific Organization	President	UConn Health	State	2014	2016
School of Medicine Student Evaluation and Appeals Review Committee	Education Committee	Committee Member	UConn Health	University	2010	2021
Program in Applied Public Health Sciences	Education Committee	Director	UConn Health	University	2004	2021
Cancer	Professional/Scientific Journal	Ad hoc reviewer	External	National	2000	2021
Journal of Health and Social Behavior	Professional/Scientific Journal	Ad hoc reviewer	External	National	2000	2021
NIH/NCI Special Emphasis Panel: Patient Navigator Research Program: Eliminating Barriers to Timely Delivery of Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Services	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	National
NIH/NCI Special Emphasis Panel: Small Grants for Behavioral Research in Cancer Control	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	National
CT Insurance Exchange Planning Grant Review Team	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	State
CT Multicultural Health Partnership	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	State
CT Association of Directors of Health (CADH) Health Equity Index Project	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	State
Governor’s Tobacco Use Task Force	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	State
CT Association of Directors of Health Practice Based Research Network	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	State

Dr. Gregorio's research focuses on cancer surveillance and the social determinants of health. His recent peer-reviewed papers examine (a) the cause and control of breast and prostate cancers, (b) racial, gender and economic disparities in care seeking behaviors, and (c) patient and physician factors that influence therapy for cancer care. He presently pursuing work based on a CDC-sponsored effort to implement a community-wide measure of deprivation for analysis of geographic variation in health status indicators.

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Book Chapters

Case Reports

Conference Papers

Newsletters

Other

Reviews

Title or Abstract	Type	Sponsor/Event	Date/Year	Location
Enduring Health Benefits of Voter Participation	Poster	American Public Health Association	2022	Boston MA
Poverty's Persistent Influence on Breast Cancer Survival, 1986-2005	Poster	American Public Health Association	2022	Boston MA
Civil Dialogue, Critical Reasoning and the Potential for Prevention	Talk		2020	San Antonio.,TX
Polity, parity, prosperity and health: A cross-national study of child health determinants	Lecture	American Public Health Association	2019	Philadelphia PA
Geographic variation in Connecticut in relation to breast cancer incidence and survival	Lecture	CT DPH Hereditary Cancers Symposium	2019	Cromwell CT
Penetration of Public Health Curricula in Undergraduate Settings	Talk	APTR Annual Meeting	2012	Washington D.C.
A Survey of Continuing Education in Public Health	Talk	APTR Annual Meeting	2012	Washington D.C.
Identifying Social Conditions That Underlie LHD Effectiveness	Talk	Keeneland PHSSR Conference	2012	Lexington, Kentucky
Future Directions and Pending Challenges in Public Health Education	Lecture	UC Davis Public Health Program	2012	Davis, California
Promoting the Value of Voluntary Certification: Data on CPH Professionals' Continuing Education & Development	Talk	APHA Annual Meeting	2012	San Francisco, California
MPH Programs: Advancing Undergraduate Public Health Education	Talk	APHA Annual Meeting	2012	San Francisco, California
Advancing the Public Health Field through Certification	Talk	Mailman School of Public Health	2012	New York
The Connecticut Undergraduate Public Health Initiative (CUPHI): Overcoming Obstacles in Addressing a Critical National and State Need in Public Health and Health Education	Talk	APTR Annual Meeting	2011	Washington D.C.
Embedding Public Health in Community College Curricula	Talk	APTR Annual Meeting	2011	Washington D.C.
Measuring Local Health Department Responses to Public Health Funding Restrictions	Talk	Keeneland PHSSR Conference	2011	Lexington, Kentucky
Effects of Material and Relational Deprivation on Community Health Status	Talk	SUNY/NYS Health Department	2011	Albany, New York
Inconsequential Effects of Funding Policy on Operation of Local Health Departments	Talk	Practice-based Research Network Webinar	2011
Practice-Based Research Networks: Applied Systems Research to Inform Local Public Health Policy	Talk	NACCHO Annual Meeting	2011	Hartford, Connecticut
Professionalizing Public Health Through Standard Setting and Life-long Learning	Talk	NACCHO Annual Meeting	2011	Hartford, Connecticut
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in China: What Resources are Available to Children and Their Families?	Talk	APHA Annual Meeting	2011	Washington D.C.
Public Health Workforce Addressing Health Disparities in Connecticut	Talk	UCONN Center to Eliminate Health Disparities in Latinos	2009	Storrs, Connecticut
Connecticut’s Plan for Service-Learning Within a Public Health Curriculum	Talk	Annual CEPH Technical Assistance Workshop	2009	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
National Panel on Public Health Credentialing and Accreditation	Talk	Nation Meeting of Association for Teaching and Research	2008	Austin, Texas
Service Learning Through a Campus-Practice Partnership	Talk	American College of Preventive Medicine	2007	Miami, Florida
The National Board of Public Health Examiners, Inc (NBPHE): Credentialing of the Public Health Workforce	Talk	American College of Preventive Medicine	2007	Miami, Florida
Deprivation and Health: Using GIS to Characterize Social Environments and Cancer Risks	Talk	2nd Annual GIS Day Conference, Albany School of Public Health	2007	Albany, New York
What is Meant by ‘Health Disparities’?	Talk	UCONN Center to Eliminate Health Disparities in Latinos	2007	Storrs, Connecticut
Fostering Public Health Partnerships with Academia	Talk	CDC 2007 Cancer Conference	2007	Atlanta, Georgia
Enumerating Ethnicity in the U.S. Census: It's Consequence for Hispanic/Non-Hispanic Cancer Rates	Talk	APHA Annual Meeting	2007	Washington D.C.
Place Matters: Evaluating Geographic Distribution of Disease	Talk	University of Connecticut/CHIP Seminar	2006
Connecticut's Plan for Service-Learning in the Public Health Curriculum	Talk	Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Annual Meeting	2006	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Spatial Analysis in Race-Specific Prostate Cancer Incidence Among Massachusetts and Connecticut Residents, 1994-1998	Talk	American Public Health Association Annual Meeting	2006	Boston, Massachusetts
Credentialing the Public Health Workforce: An update on activities of the National Board of Public Health Examiners, Inc.	Talk	Connecticut Public Health Association Annual Meeting	2006	Rocky Hill, Connecticut
Public Health Service Learning: The UCONN Practicum Project	Talk	American Association of Medical Centers Conference on MD/MPH Education	2005	Chicago, Illinois
Tobacco-Related Cancers and Connecticut Disparities	Talk	Connecticut Institute for Tobacco Education and Training Conference	2005	Glastonbury, Connecticut
Community Factors in Survival with Prostate Cancer	Talk	Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center Retreat	2005	Westbrook, Connecticut
Area-Based Deprivation and its Effect on Cancer Survival	Talk	Association of American Geographers	2004	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A Spatial Scan Statistic for Survival Data	Talk	National Cancer Institute	2004	Bethesda, Maryland
Community-based Indicators of Deprivation and Their Health Effects	Talk	Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting	2003	Atlanta, Georgia
Multi-Dimension Indicators of Deprivation and Health Status	Talk	Association for Prevention Teaching and Research	2003	Albuquerque, New Mexico
A Multi-Dimension Indicator of Deprivation and Health Status	Talk	Centers for Disease Control	2003
A Spatial Scan Statistic for Survival Data	Talk	American Statistical Association/Joint Statistics Meeting	2003	San Francisco, California
Spatial & Temporal Variation in Incidence of Prostate Cancer across Massachusetts, 1984-98	Talk	Centers for Disease Control Cancer Conference	2003	Atlanta, Georgia
Geographic Variation in Survival Time with Prostate Cancer: An Extension of the Spatial Scan Statistic	Talk	American Public Health Association Annual Meeting	2003	San Francisco, California
Small Area Variation in Breast Cancer Survival	Talk	Congress of Epidemiology	2001	Toronto, Canada
Identifying Geographical Excesses in Incidence and Proportion of Late Stage Breast Cancer in Massachusetts	Talk	Centers for Disease Control 2001 Cancer Conference	2001	Atlanta, Georgia
Aggregation Unit for Spatial Analysis– Census Tracts, ZIP Codes, or Towns?	Talk	Centers for Disease Control 2001 Cancer Conference	2001	Atlanta, Georgia
GIS Generated Map Patterns: Are They Random or Not?	Talk	Centers for Disease Control 2001 Cancer Conference	2001	Atlanta, Georgia
Did the Advent of PSA Testing Alter the Geographic Distribution of Prostate Cancer Incidence?	Talk	Centers for Disease Control 2001 Cancer Conference	2001	Atlanta, Georgia
Geographic Differences in Primary Therapy for Locally Invasive Breast Cancer	Talk	Centers for Disease Control 2001 Cancer Conference	2001	Atlanta, Georgia
Geography of Leukemia and Thyroid Cancer in Connecticut	Talk	American Public Health Association Annual Meeting	2001	Atlanta, Georgia
Cancer Clusters Resulting from Census Enumeration Policy	Talk	International Health Geographics Conference	2000	Chevy Chase, Maryland
Small Area Variation in Primary Therapy for Locally Invasive Breast Cancer	Talk	International Health Geographics Conference	2000	Chevy Chase, Maryland
Geography and Breast Cancer	Talk	CT Department of Public Health	2000	Hartford, Connecticut
Geography of Breast Cancer Incidence, Connecticut, 1992-1995	Talk	Tumor Registrars Association of New England	1999	Mystic, Connecticut
Progress in the Detection of Early-Stage Breast Cancer, Connecticut, 1975-1995	Talk	North American Association of Central Cancer Registries Annual Meeting	1998	Vancouver, British Columbia
A Method for Representing the Geographic Location of Breast Cancer Incidence, Connecticut 1992-95	Talk	American Cancer Society Excalibur Round Table	1998	Greenwich, Connecticut
Communities of Women: Spatial and Statistical Considerations in Retrospective Epidemiological Analyses of Breast Cancer	Talk	Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting	1998	Boston, Massachusetts
A Procedure for Areal Interpolation of Census Data for Spatial Analysis of Cancer Patterns	Talk	North American Association of Central Cancer Registries Annual Meeting	1998	Vancouver, British Columbia
Spatial Analysis of Breast Cancer Incidence, Connecticut 1992-95	Talk	American College of Epidemiology Annual Meeting	1997	Boston, Massachusetts
Evaluation of Subject Loss and Selection Bias in Spatial Analysis of Breast Cancer	Talk	American College of Epidemiology Annual Meeting	1997	Boston, Massachusetts
Cumulative Effects of Social Position on Mortality in a Large Cohort	Talk	Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting	1996	Boston, Massachusetts
Longitudinal Effects of Social Position on Mortality Among Gender and Age Specific Cohorts	Talk	American Public Health Association Annual Meeting	1996	New York, New York
The Force of Social Ecology on Rates of Preventable Cancer Mortality	Talk	Preventive Medicine Annual Meeting	1993	St. Louis, Missouri
Variation in Estimates of Occupational Effects on Mortality	Talk	American Sociological Association Annual Meeting	1993	Miami, Florida
Socioeconomic Correlates of Behavioral Risk Factors Among American Populations	Talk	Preventive Medicine Annual Meeting	1992	Baltimore, Maryland
Do false-positive mammograms deter women from further breast cancer screening?	Talk	Society for Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting	1992	New York, New York
Distinguishing styles of practice among physicians who treat breast cancer	Talk	American Sociological Association Annual Meeting	1992	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Population Correlates of Mammography Screening Practices	Talk	American Public Health Association Annual Meeting	1991	Atlanta, Georgia
Race, Stage of Disease and Survival with Cervical Cancer	Talk	American Public Health Association Annual Meeting	1991	Atlanta, Georgia
Comparison of Low Birth Weight, Prematurely and IUGR, Hartford CT, 1985-87	Talk	American Public Health Association	1991	Atlanta, Georgia
Periodic Cancer Screening by Physicians in Primary Care Specialties	Talk	Preventive Medicine Annual Meeting	1990	Atlanta, Georgia
Physician Attitudes About the Appropriate Use of Adjuvant Chemotherapy Breast Cancer	Talk	European Association for Cancer Education Annual Meeting	1990	Bordeaux, France
Predicting Radon Levels from Geological and Structural Features of Residential Dwellings	Talk	National Environmental Health Association Annual Meeting	1990	Charlotte, North Carolina
Estimated Occurrence and Reasons for 'Underdosing' with Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer	Talk	UICC 15th International Cancer Congress	1990	Hamburg, Germany
Population and ecological correlates of child pedestrian injuries	Talk	American Public Health Association Annual Meeting	1990	New York, New York
A Geographical Analysis of Child Pedestrian Injuries in Hartford, Connecticut	Talk	13th Applied Geography Conference	1990	Charlotte, North Carolina
Health Promotion as Collective Action: Strategies for Securing Common Health Benefits	Talk	National Council for International Health Annual Meeting	1987	Washington D.C.
The Effect of Screening for AIDS Risk Factors on Blood Donor Eligibility Within the General Population	Talk	American Public Health Association Annual Meeting	1987	New Orleans, Louisiana
Misclassification of Childhood Homicide on Death Certificates	Talk	American Public Health Association Annual Meeting	1987	New Orleans, Louisiana
An Estimate of Blood Donor Eligibility in the General Population	Talk	American Association of Blood Banks Annual Meeting	1986	San Francisco, California
The Constraints of the Polity on Mobilization of Third-Party Movements in America	Talk	American Sociological Association Annual Meeting	1982	San Francisco, California
Mobilizing Activists: An Illustration from the Antimasonic Movement	Talk	American Sociological Association Annual Meeting	1981	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Research Productivity in Academia	Talk	American Sociological Association Annual Meeting	1980	New York, New York