Rodney Haring

PhD, MSW

Specializing In:

Health Behavior Interventions Screening Patient Navigation, Cancer focused Cancer Education Initiatives

Research Interests:

Cancer Prevention Co-Occurring Conditions Data Sovereignty and Research Ethics

About Rodney Haring

Biography:

Rodney C. Haring, PhD, MSW is inaugural Chair of the Department of Indigenous Cancer Health at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.  Dr. Haring (Beaver Clan) is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians and resides on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (NY). He holds a doctoral degree in social work with over 15 years of social work practice and a former delegate on the US Department of Health and Human Services, American Indian and Alaska Native, Health Research Advisory Council. He is also the lead delegate for the historic MoU between Rowell Park and Indian Health Services with the common mission of addressing health burdens in Indigenous communities. In 2017 he was awarded an Impact Award by the National Indian Health Board and in 2021 he received the National Federation of Just Communities Hero Award. His research interests intersect eliminating disparities and encouraging resiliencies within First Nations and Indigenous societies.

Positions

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Associate Professor of Oncology
  • Chair, Department of Indigenous Cancer Health
  • Seneca Nation

Background

Education and Training:

  • 2007 - PhD - Social Work/Social Welfare, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  • 2002 - MSW - State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Fellowship:

  • 2015 - Academy Health/Aetna Foundation Scholar in Residence Fellowship
  • 2014 - University of Arizona, American Indian Research Faculty Fellow, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Native American Research and Training Center, Tucson, AZ
  • 2012-2014 - National Congress of American Indians & Washington University, Center for Diabetes Translation
  • 2010-2013 - Hampton Faculty Fellow, Spirit of EAGLES Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
  • 2008 - National Institute on Drug Abuse Native American Research and Scholar Mentoring Program

Professional Memberships:

  • American Association for Cancer Research (Eliminating Racial Inequities in Cancer Research Task Force Committee)
  • Association of American Indian Physicians
  • 2019 - National Institutes of Health, Tribal Advisory Committee, (Seneca Nation), Member at Large
  • 2018 - National Institutes of Health, Tribal Advisory Committee, (Proxy- St. Regis Mohawk Nation), Northeast Representative
  • 2017-2018 - US Health and Human Services, American Indian Health Research Advisory Council, At-Large, Community Delegate (Seneca Nation of Indians, President’s Office)
  • 2015 - US Health and Human Services, American Indian Health Research Advisory Council, At-Large, Community Delegate (Seneca Nation of Indians, President’s Office)
  • 2012-present - Native American SUNY: Western Consortium Network Advisory Member
  • 2013-2014 - Native Research Network, Outgoing Chair
  • 2011-2013 - Native Research Network, Co-Chair
  • 2011-2013 - Native Research Network, Governance Sub-Committee
  • 2010-2011 - Native Research Network, Incoming Co-Chair
  • 2009-2010 - Native Research Network Research Ethics Sub-Committee
  • 2009-2010 - Employee Assistance Professionals Association, Member
  • 2009-2010 - Employee Assistance Professionals Association, Native American Chapter, Member
  • 2009-2010 - National Association of Social Work Appointed Member, Private Practice Specialty Practice Section Committee

Professional Experience:

  • 2023 - Director, Roswell Park Center for Indigenous Cancer Health
  • 2022- present - Associate Research Faculty, Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
  • 2014- present - Associate Research Faculty, Native American Research and Training Center, University of Arizona, Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Tucson, AZ
  • 2021-2023 - Associate Professor, Office of Cancer Health Disparities, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
  • 2020-2022 - Associate Research Faculty, University of North Dakota, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND
  • 2014-2021 - Assistant Professor, Office of Cancer Health Disparities, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • 2017 - Roswell Park/Mayo Clinic, Spirit of EAGLES, National Conference Planner (plenary speaker), Niagara Falls, NY
  • 2016 - Roswell Park Cancer Institute Delegate to the United States, Department of Interior, Indian Health Services Memorandum of Understanding
  • 2016 - Technical Advisor to US SAMHSA, National Tribal Organization Roundtable. SAMHSA Headquarters (Rockville, MD) with the Native Research Network to address co-occurring conditions (cancer and substance abuse prevention)
  • 2016 - Native Research Network, Inc, National Indian Health Services Conference, Planning Board (plenary speaker), Cherokee, NC
  • 2000-2015 - One Feather Consulting/Chestnut Global Partners (co-owner; joint venture): Micro, Mezzo, and Macro practice for International EAP (Employee Assistance Program) services
  • 2010-2014 - Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Native American Research and Training Center, Tucson, AZ
  • 2012-2014 - Adjunct Assistant Professor, Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Honors & Awards:

  • 2021 - Community Heroes Leadership Award, National Federation of Just Communities of Western New York
  • 2019 - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Research into Action National Award, New Orleans, LA
  • 2017 - recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award, Finger Lakes Community College
  • 2017 - National Indian Health Board, Regional Impact Awardee, Bellevue, WA

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Publications

Full Publications list on PubMed

Haring, R. C., Blanchard, J. W., Korchmaros, J. D., Lund, J. R., Haozous, E. A., Raphaelito, J., Hudson, M., & Tsosie, K. S. (2021). Empowering Equitable Data Use Partnerships and Indigenous Data Sovereignties Amid Pandemic Genomics. Frontiers in public health, 9, 742467. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.742467

Banerji, A., Pelletier, V. A., Haring, R., Irvine, J., Bresnahan, A., & Lavallee, B. (2023). Food insecurity and its consequences in indigenous children and youth in Canada. PLOS global public health, 3(9), e0002406. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002406

Haring, R. C., Henry, W. A., Hudson, M., Rodriguez, E. M., & Taualii, M. (2018). Views on clinical trial recruitment, biospecimen collection, and cancer research: population science from landscapes of the Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse). Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education, 33(1), 44–51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-016-1067-5

Hudson, M., Garrison, N. A., Sterling, R., Caron, N. R., Fox, K., Yracheta, J., Anderson, J., Wilcox, P., Arbour, L., Brown, A., Taualii, M., Kukutai, T., Haring, R., Te Aika, B., Baynam, G. S., Dearden, P. K., Chagné, D., Malhi, R. S., Garba, I., Tiffin, N., … Carroll, S. R. (2020). Rights, interests and expectations: Indigenous perspectives on unrestricted access to genomic data. Nature reviews. Genetics, 21(6), 377–384. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-020-0228-x

Haring, R. C., Jim, M. A., Erwin, D., Kaur, J., Henry, W. A. E., Haring, M. L., & Seneca, D. S. (2018). Mortality disparities: A comparison with the Haudenosaunee in New York State. Cancer health disparities, 2, 10.9777/chd.2018.10009. https://doi.org/10.9777/chd.2018.10009