Natalie Joe (Diné/Navajo)

Natalie Joe (Diné/Navajo), Ph.D., MPH, is a Cancer Prevention Fellow in the Surveillance Research Program and Office of the Director in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. She is mentored by Drs. Kathy Cronin and Shobha Srinivasan.

Natalie's current scientific interests include working with US Indigenous populations to promote health equity in cancer prevention programs, cancer epidemiology, cancer surveillance data, and tribal public health policy. She is also interested in Indigenous data sovereignty and research governance. Her past research has focused on studying the efficacy of mebendazole in triple negative breast cancer, which was supported by a Predoctoral Ford Foundation Fellowship.

Natalie completed her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she was inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Honor Society (2022). She also earned her MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a concentration in Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Natalie grew up on the Navajo Nation and graduated from Fort Lewis College with BS degrees in Cellular and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.