Nursing’s Rina Fox receives early-stage investigator award

May 13, 2024

Rina Fox, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona College of Nursing, has been awarded an Early-Stage Investigator Award for Outstanding Contributions to Cancer Prevention and Control by the Cancer Special Interest Group of the Society of Behavioral Medicine.

“I am extremely honored to receive this award,” said Fox, who is a member of the UArizona Cancer Center and has an appointment as an assistant professor of psychiatry at the College of Medicine – Tucson. “The Cancer Special Interest Group is one of SBM’s largest groups and it is quite an honor to be recognized by them for my contributions as an early career investigator.”

According to its website, SBM is the nation’s leading group of multispecialty professionals dedicated to improving health and quality of life through proven behavioral science. SBM has 26 special interest groups covering a range of behavioral medicine interests.