{"id":2773,"date":"2026-06-17T08:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/cancercenter\/?page_id=2773"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:03:00","slug":"slone-epidemiology-center","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/cancercenter\/slone-epidemiology-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Slone Epidemiology Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Featured Research Project<\/strong><\/h2>\n<section class=\"featured-research\">\n<article class=\"research-card\">\n<h3><strong>&#8220;A Follow-up Study for Causes of Cancer in Black Women&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"researcher\"><strong>Julie Palmer, ScD, MPH<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"description\">Dr. Julie Palmer and colleagues in the Black Women&#8217;s Health Study,<br \/>\nbased at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, have been<br \/>\nstudying exposures and outcomes in this understudied cohort for decades.<br \/>\nTheir multidisciplinary approach builds on insights from population<br \/>\nsciences to identify important novel associations and mechanisms linked<br \/>\nto cancer progression in this cohort, originally drawn from 59,000<br \/>\nparticipants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reporter.nih.gov\/search\/neDVWyjUE0W7dZfDKwG0MQ\/project-details\/10701009\">Read the Full Abstract<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"research-links\">\n<h3>Websites<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.bu.edu\/Julie.Palmer\">BU Profile<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/slone\/staff\/palmer\/\">Slone Epidemiology Center Director<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/julie-palmer\/\">BU Experts<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/scientific-contributions\/Julie-R-Palmer-40024314\">ResearchGate<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Research Project &#8220;A Follow-up Study for Causes of Cancer in Black Women&#8221; Julie Palmer, ScD, MPH Dr. Julie Palmer and colleagues in the Black Women&#8217;s Health Study, based at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, have been studying exposures and outcomes in this understudied cohort for decades. Their multidisciplinary approach builds on insights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10364,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/cancercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/cancercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/cancercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/cancercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/cancercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/cancercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/cancercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2773\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/cancercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}