Dr. Fagan is a Professor in the UAMS College of Public Health, Director of the UAMS Center for the Study of Tobacco, Director of Research in the UAMS Office of Health Initiatives and Disparities Research, and Associate Director for Cancer Prevention and Control for the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. She also leads the NIH Center for Research, Health and Social Justice at UAMS — one of only 11 Multiple Chronic Disease Centers funded in the United States. The center is funded by an $18.9 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to support new research and interventions to reduce cancer among people who live in rural areas and African American populations across Arkansas.
Dr. Fagan is a graduate of the University of Virginia, she earned a Master of Public Health degree from Tulane University and a Doctorate in Health Education and Community Health from Texas A&M University. She completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.