Title: Robin Taylor Wilson, PhD: Governing Council

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Section/SPIG: Epidemiology

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Robin Taylor Wilson is an assistant professor within the Penn State College of Medicine Department of Health Evaluation Sciences and the Penn State Cancer Institute’s Division of Population Sciences and Cancer Prevention. Wilson’s research includes childhood leukemia and cancers of the kidney and salivary gland. Her research interests include occupational cancer risks and improved methods for haplotype selection in molecular epidemiologic studies. She is a former pre-doctoral research volunteer with the Indian Health Service’s National Epidemiology Program and post-doctoral research fellow with the National Cancer Institute including the Surveillance Research Program and the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, where she served as a representative to the NIH Fellows Committee. Wilson previously served as the development chair of the Epidemiology Section, which focused on mentoring and the identification of excellence in public health practice. Closer to home, Wilson focuses on the success and future of three fabulous and challenging children, Orrin (7), Nolan (4) and Olivia (2) in collaboration with her awe-inspiring husband, Randy.