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Dr. Shaneda Warren Andersen is an Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a member of the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center and an affiliate of the Center for the Demography of Health and Aging. Dr. Warren Andersen received her B.S. in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and later earned a M.S. and Ph.D. in Population Health from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center R25 Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer (MAGEC) training program.

As a cancer epidemiologist, she is interested in how social determinants, modifiable risk factors, and molecular characteristics influence cancer risk and survivorship. Dr. Warren Andersen has received multiple NIH-awarded and institutional grants to support her research in evaluating the associations between social determinants, biomarkers and cancer outcomes using molecular epidemiologic methods.