Shine Chang, Ph.D.

A University of Texas System Distinguished Teaching Professor, a Full Professor within the Department of Epidemiology, and Director of the Cancer Prevention Research Training Program, Shine serves as the co-PI for the SCOARE program. Within her various roles, she publishes and disseminates innovative training methods that are tested, evaluated, and used in training programs in order to expand the evidence for various training interventions, and also has more than two decades of experience as a published cancer epidemiologist. She is deeply committed to strengthening the biomedical workforce in cancer research, in its diversity and in the career skills needed for success. Through the CPRTP, she annually recruits more than 50 trainees, undergraduate to postdoctoral level, to multi-year appointments and short-term cancer prevention research experiences.