Dr. Bandera is a tenured professor and Chief of Cancer Epidemiology and Health Outcomes, Co-Leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program and Director of the Cancer Prevention and Outcomes Data Support (CPODS) Shared Resource at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. She is also Unilever Endowed Chair in Nutrition and Cancer Prevention and Professor of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Bandera’s major research interests include the impact of obesity and body composition and related factors on breast and ovarian cancer risk, treatment outcomes, survivorship and prognosis after a cancer diagnosis, with a focus on cancer health disparities. She has served as Principal Investigator in several epidemiologic cohort studies, including the Women’s Circle of Health Follow-up Study and the New Jersey Breast Cancer Survivors Study, both studies aim to evaluate multi-level factors impacting survivorship and prognosis in minoritized and medically underserved women, including Black/African American and Hispanic women. Dr. Bandera has served in numerous advisory boards and expert panels for several organizations, including the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) and the World Cancer Research Fund International (WCRF). She has served as ad hoc reviewer for multiple grant review panels for NIH and other agencies, and a former standing member of the NIH Study Section Cancer Heart, and Sleep Epidemiology Panel B (CHSB) and the National Cancer Institute Initial Review Group Subcommittee J for Population and Patient-Oriented Training. Dr. Bandera has also been a member of the Breast Cancer Prevention Partners’ Science Advisory Panel since 2013. Dr. Bandera has contributed substantially to public policy by playing a major role in the development of nutritional guidelines for cancer prevention and survival at a national and global scale. For over 10 years she served as a member of the International Expert Panel for the WCRF/AICR Continuous Update Project and the WCRF/AICR Third Expert Report on Diet, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Cancer: A Global Perspective, released in May 2018. This publication provided the most comprehensive review of the epidemiologic literature relating nutrition, physical activity and cancer published to date and issued dietary guidelines for cancer prevention. Dr. Bandera has also been involved in the American Cancer Society’s Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention and Survival Advisory Committees since 2006. She also served as Chair of the Lifestyle Behaviors, Energy Balance and Chemoprevention Special Interest Group of the American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO) and co-chaired the 2021 ASPO Annual Meeting: Health Equity, Culture, and Cancer. Dr. Bandera has also continuously devoted considerable efforts to mentoring the next generation of cancer researchers, including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty, serving as mentor in many NIH K grants (career development grants) over the years. Her track record was recognized with Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences Chancellor Distinguished Mentor Award in 2023.