Jill E. Koshiol is an American cancer epidemiologist who researches the
risk factors of
hepatobiliary
The biliary tract, (biliary tree or biliary system) refers to the liver, gallbladder and bile ducts, and how they work together to make, store and secrete bile. Bile consists of water, electrolytes, bile acids, cholesterol, phospholipids and co ...
cancers. She is a senior investigator in the infections and immunoepidemiology branch at the
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ...
.
Life
Koshiol received a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health is the public health school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and is accre ...
in 2005.
Her dissertation was titled, ''Effect of smoking and human papillomavirus (HPV) type on time to clearance of HPV infection among HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative women''.
Jane C. Schroeder was her doctoral advisor.
In 2005, Koshiol joined the
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ...
(NCI)'s genetic epidemiology branch of the division of cancer epidemiology and genetics as a cancer prevention fellow.
Koshiol joined the NCI infections and immunoepidemiology branch as a research fellow in 2008, became an Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator in 2010, and was awarded
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...
(NIH) scientific tenure and promoted to senior investigator in 2020.
Koshiol received the Hubert H. Humphrey Award for Service to America in 2022.
She researches
hepatobiliary
The biliary tract, (biliary tree or biliary system) refers to the liver, gallbladder and bile ducts, and how they work together to make, store and secrete bile. Bile consists of water, electrolytes, bile acids, cholesterol, phospholipids and co ...
cancers and identifies
risk factors, such as
aflatoxin.
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health alumni
National Institutes of Health people
American women epidemiologists
American epidemiologists
Cancer epidemiologists
21st-century American women scientists