Dr. Crystal Y. Lumpkins is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah and a Cancer Communication and Health Disparities Researcher within the Cancer Control and Population Sciences (CCPS) Program at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was formally an Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, Family Medicine & Community Health Research Division. Dr. Lumpkins received her Doctorate with an emphasis on Health Communication and Strategic Communication in 2007 and a Bachelor of Journalism Degree in 1992 from the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She received a dual Master of Arts in Media Communication and Management from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1997. She is currently the Principal Investigator for a "Five for the Fight" pilot grant that focuses on hereditary cancer risk assessment awareness and access among Black Americans. She was most recently a Co-Investigator of the BEST or Black Breast Cancer Survivor Engagement to Solve Diagnostic and Treatment Disparities Project at KU-Medical Center. Dr. Lumpkins’ current and primary research interests are in evidence-based public health communication, cancer-related genetic counseling and testing risk communication and implementation science targeted to racial/ethnic minority populations.
