Primary Prevention

Chair, Primary Prevention Advisory Group; Senior Scientific Advisor, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer

Jon Kerner chairs the Partnership’s Primary Prevention Advisory Group and is the Senior Scientific Advisor for Cancer Control and Knowledge Translation for the Partnership.

Dr. Kerner previously served as Deputy Director for Research Dissemination and Diffusion of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, which is part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Before joining the National Cancer Institute in 2000, Dr. Kerner spent 20 years as a peer-reviewed and funded researcher at two National Cancer Institute–designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Georgetown University’s Lombardi Cancer Center. He also served as a peer reviewer on many National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Health special emphasis panels and study sections. This includes chairing the NIH Community Prevention and Control Study Section (now known as the NIH Community-Led Health Promotion Study Section).

Dr. Kerner received his Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University and his PhD in Community Psychology from New York University. He received his post doctoral training in Cancer Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Trials design at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.