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
Biography
I am the inaugural Chair of the Department of Indigenous Cancer Health at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. I am (Beaver Clan) an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians and resides on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (NY). I hold a doctoral degree in social work with more than 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. I am also the lead delegate for the historic MoU between Roswell Park and Indian Health Services with the common mission of addressing health burdens in Indigenous communities. In 2017 I was awarded an Impact Award by the National Indian Health Board and in 2021 I received the National Federation of Just Communities Hero Award. My research interests intersect eliminating disparities and encouraging resiliencies within First Nations and Indigenous societies.
Positions
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Associate Professor of Oncology
- Co-Director, Health Communications Shared Resource
- Seneca Nation
- Chair – Department of Indigenous Cancer Health
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 - Chair, 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
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