Jasmin Tiro, Ph.D.

Dr. Tiro joined UT Southwestern as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences’ Division of Behavioral and Communication Sciences in April 2008. She is also a member of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and holds an adjoint appointment in the University of Texas-School of Public Health for the Dallas Regional Campus.

From 2005 until her move to UT Southwestern, Dr. Tiro was a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). While there, she led a team of NCI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) experts in designing several behavioral surveillance and health communication studies to evaluate the integration of the HPV vaccine into cervical cancer prevention and control.

At UT Southwestern, Dr. Tiro has led an interdisciplinary research team to examine patient-, physician-, and organizational factors associated with cancer prevention delivery at Parkland, the safety-net health care system for Dallas County.  Her team uses both quantitative and qualitative methods (electronic medical record (EMR) review, patient surveys, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, participant observation, document analysis, and hierarchical modeling) to identify potential intervention targets that address cancer health disparities.

Undergraduate	Rice University (1997), Biochemistry
Graduate School	"emory University, Rollins School of Public Health (1999)
Graduate School	Univ. of Texas Houston School of Public Health (2005)

• Cancer Health Disparities
• Cancer Screening
• HPV vaccine
• Mixed Methods Research

Featured Publications

HPV and cervical cancer behavioral surveillance in the United States.

Tiro JA, Saraiya M, Jain N, Liddon N, Cokkinides V, Lai SM, Breen N, Wideroff L Cancer In press.

What do U.S. women know about human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer?

Tiro JA, Meissner HI, Kobrin S, Chollette V. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, & Prevention 2007 16(2) 288-294

Some methodologic lessons learned from cancer screening research.

Vernon SW, Briss PA, Tiro JA, and Warnecke RB Cancer 2004 101 1131-1145

Uptake and Correlates of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Among Adolescent Girls and Young Adult Women: An Analysis of the 2007 California Health Interview Survey.

Tiro JA, Tsui J, Bauer HM, Yamada E, Kobrin S, Breen N Journal of women's health (2002) 2012 Mar

Multilevel correlates for human papillomavirus vaccination of adolescent girls attending safety net clinics.

Tiro JA, Pruitt SL, Bruce CM, Persaud D, Lau M, Vernon SW, Morrow J, Skinner CS Vaccine 2012 Mar 30 13 2368-75

Evaluating associations between sources of information, knowledge of the human papillomavirus, and human papillomavirus vaccine uptake for adult women in California.

Almeida CM, Tiro JA, Rodriguez MA, Diamant AL Vaccine 2012 Feb

Utilization of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance Among American Patients: A Systematic Review.

Singal AG, Yopp A, S Skinner C, Packer M, Lee WM, Tiro JA Journal of general internal medicine 2012 Jan

Was the drop in mammography rates in 2005 associated with the drop in hormone therapy use?

Breen N, Cronin KA, Tiro JA, Meissner HI, McNeel TS, Sabatino SA, Tangka FK, Taplin SH Cancer 2011 Dec 117 24 5450-60

Understanding impediments and enablers to physical activity among African American adults: a systematic review of qualitative studies.

Siddiqi Z, Tiro JA, Shuval K Health Educ Res 2011 Dec 26 6 1010-24

Legitimate and ethical: distinguishing when and how regulations apply in patient-oriented research.

Lee SJ, Tiro JA, Bishop WP, Sheppard PD, Skinner CS Am J Bioeth 2011 Nov 11 11 42-3

• NCI Prevention Research Training Merit Award
  (2007)
• American Association for Cancer Research-American Cancer Society Scholarship for Behavioral Scientists
  (2006)
• Fellows Award for Research Excellence, National Institutes of Health
  (2006)

• American Public Health Association
• American Society of Preventive Oncology
• Society of Behavioral Medicine