{"id":275,"date":"2026-04-30T10:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/?p=275"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:28:26","slug":"kimberly-bertrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/2026\/04\/30\/kimberly-bertrand\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimberly Bertrand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 225px; float: none; margin-left: 0; background-color: #329998; color: #fff; border-left: none; -webkit-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(204,204,204,1); -moz-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(204,204,204,1); box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(204,204,204,1);\">\n<div style=\"float: left; margin: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/whra\/files\/2026\/04\/kimberly-bertrand.jpg\" alt=\"Kimberly Bertrand\" width=\"160\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"padding-top: 0.5em; color: #ffffff;\">Associate Professor<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>Chobanian &#038; Avedisian School of Medicine &#8211; Preventive Medicine &#038; Epidemiology\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Research Areas<\/h3>\n<p>cancer epidemiology; racial disparities<\/p>\n<h3>Why Women&#8217;s Health?<\/h3>\n<p>I am a cancer epidemiologist focusing primarily on cancer risk and outcomes in Black women, who suffer a disproportionate burden of cancer in the U.S. I am currently Multiple Principal Investigator of the Black Women\u2019s Health Study (BWHS), a prospective cohort study of over 59,000 Black women begun in 1995. Within the BWHS and other large, well-established cohorts, I have led high-impact epidemiologic research projects to study risk factors for breast and other cancers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Chobanian &#038; Avedisian School of Medicine &#8211; Preventive Medicine &#038; Epidemiology Research Areas cancer epidemiology; racial disparities Why Women&#8217;s Health? I am a cancer epidemiologist focusing primarily on cancer risk and outcomes in Black women, who suffer a disproportionate burden of cancer in the U.S. I am currently Multiple Principal Investigator of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}