Jennifer Croswell, MD, MPH, MA

Jennifer Croswell, MD, MPH is a Medical Officer and Acting Branch Chief of the Healthcare Assessment Research Branch (HARB), within the Healthcare Delivery Research Program. She focuses on clinical epidemiology and healthcare delivery, with a special emphasis on the assessment of the varying benefits and harms of cancer screening modalities and their downstream effects as realized in real-world clinical settings.

She manages several large relevant grant initiatives such as the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium, the Hawaii and Pacific Island Mammography Registry, the New Hampshire Colonoscopy Registry, and the North Carolina Lung Screening Registry. Dr. Croswell leads development of the annual Cancer Control Supplement of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for NCI, which surveils national trends in cancer-related health behaviors in the U.S. population, such as screening. Dr. Croswell also serves as Medical Officer and Director of the SEER Patterns of Care (POC) study, which collects data on dissemination of state-of-the art cancer diagnostics and treatments into community oncology practice under a Congressional Mandate to NCI.

Prior to joining HARB, Dr. Croswell was a Senior Program Officer at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), where she helped launch a legislatively mandated program in evidence synthesis. She has several decades of experience with the conduct, interpretation, and application of systematic evidence reviews and derivative research methods.

Dr. Croswell received a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. She received her MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago and obtained training in general surgery before transitioning to an interest in preventive medicine. She then received an MPH with a concentration in epidemiology and biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.