Mona Fouad, M.D., MPH is Professor of Medicine, Edward E. Partridge, M.D., Endowed Chair for Cancer Disparity Research, Senior Associate Dean for Access & Engagement in the Heersink School of Medicine, and Director of the UAB Comprehensive Healthy Living Research Center.

Fouad has contributed to the science of health disparities through major studies to identify variability in cancer care and outcomes among different groups based on social determinants of health. She has developed nationally emulated models in recruitment and retention of minorities in clinical trials and innovative community-based approaches to reducing racial disparities in breast and cervical cancer, and chronic diseases prevention and control.