Heather Taffet Gold, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy in the Department of Public Health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Her interests include studying disparities in access to appropriate clinical services and outcomes assessment particularly related to cancer.

Dr. Gold's major research projects include:

• Principal Investigator, Disparities in Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer and DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ), funded through 2008, American Cancer Society
  
  
• Consultant, Cost-Effectiveness of Treatments for DCIS, National Cancer Institute