Program Leader, Cancer Prevention and Control

Job Description

Cedars-Sinai Cancer is seeking a nationally recognized, collaborative, and visionary investigator to serve as Program Leader for the Cancer Prevention and Control Program. This is a senior faculty leadership opportunity for an established scientist whose work advances cancer prevention and control across the cancer continuum, including cancer etiology, risk reduction, screening and early detection, behavioral interventions, health communication, implementation science, survivorship, cancer care delivery, and cancer health equity.

The Program Leader will shape the scientific agenda of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program, grow its peer-reviewed funding base, strengthen collaboration across Cedars-Sinai Cancer and partner institutions, and ensure that program science is responsive to the cancer burden and needs of the diverse communities Cedars-Sinai serves across Greater Los Angeles.

The role

The Program Leader will provide scientific, strategic, and administrative leadership for an interdisciplinary research program. The successful candidate will maintain an outstanding independent research portfolio while catalyzing programmatic growth, mentoring faculty, building multi-investigator initiatives, and increasing the impact of Cedars-Sinai Cancer research in cancer prevention and control.

Key responsibilities

* Provide strategic direction for the Cancer Prevention and Control Program.

* Lead implementation of program goals, priorities, and metrics.

* Maintain an outstanding, independent, cancer-relevant research program with sustained peer-reviewed extramural funding.

* Mentor and support faculty, early-career investigators, trainees, and multidisciplinary teams.

* Increase programmatic funding through multi-PI grants, program projects, and cross-program collaborations.

* Convene and lead program meetings, working groups, retreats, and other activities that promote collaboration and scientific productivity.

* Foster intra- and inter-programmatic collaborations across Cedars-Sinai Cancer, Cedars-Sinai departments and institutes, and external Cancer Centers.

* Partner with Community Outreach and Engagement to develop research that addresses cancer burden in the Cedars-Sinai catchment area.

* Review and report program metrics, including membership, grants, publications, shared resource use, clinical/population studies, collaborations, and impact.

* Prepare annual program reports and materials for internal leadership, external advisory board review, and NCI Cancer Center Support Grant-style review activities.

* Represent the program in institutional committees, strategic planning, philanthropy, education and training, community engagement, and external scientific forums.

Scientific areas of interest

Candidates may work in any area of cancer prevention and control. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

* Cancer epidemiology, molecular epidemiology, genetic and environmental risk factors, exposomics, and risk prediction.

* Screening, early detection, prevention trials, pragmatic trials, and implementation of evidence-based interventions.

* Behavioral science, health communication, digital health, decision science, and intervention development.

* Cancer health equity, social determinants of health, community-engaged research, and research addressing the Cedars-Sinai catchment area.

* Lifestyle, obesity, physical activity, alcohol, tobacco, nutrition, metabolic health, and other modifiable cancer risk factors.

* Cancer survivorship, symptom burden, quality of life, health services research, care delivery, and outcomes across the cancer continuum.

* Population data science, real-world evidence, geospatial methods, electronic health record-based research, and learning health system approaches.

Why Cedars-Sinai Cancer

Cedars-Sinai Cancer is in a transformational period of growth and impact. Cedars-Sinai has been named to the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Honor Roll for 10 consecutive years and tied for #1 in California and Los Angeles in the 2025-26 rankings. Cedars-Sinai is a major hub for biomedical research, with substantial extramural research funding and a rapidly expanding, vertically integrated health system.

The cancer enterprise offers state-of-the-art treatments, experimental therapies, next-generation research, and cutting-edge clinical trials across more than 60 cancer types and more than 10 locations throughout Greater Los Angeles. Cedars-Sinai Cancer sees more than 10,300 new cancer cases each year, creating a rich environment for discovery, translational research, population science, and community-engaged cancer prevention and control.

The Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Cedars-Sinai Cancer is at an important stage of growth, creating a rare opportunity for a new Program Leader to help shape its scientific direction, priorities, collaborations, and long-term impact. The program focuses on collaborative, multifaceted research to reduce the current cancer burden and…