Peters, Cheryl

Dr. Cheryl Peters is a Senior Scientist (Cancer Prevention and Population Health Promotion), shared between the BC Centre for Disease Control and BC Cancer, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine, departments of Oncology (Preventive Oncology division) and Community Health Sciences. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Peters completed both her MSc (2007) and PhD (2015) in Occupational and Environmental Hygiene from the University of British Columbia, and her postdoctoral work at Carleton University. She is the PI of CAREX Canada, a national exposure surveillance project that aims to identify and reduce Canadians’ exposures to carcinogens at the workplace and in the general environment. She is also a Canadian expert in the measurement and control of solar ultraviolet radiation exposure at work and leisure time. She has expertise in knowledge translation, and is a Member of the Canadian Urban Environment research consortium (CANUE). The overarching goal of her program of research is to reduce the risk of cancer due to forces that remain largely outside of an individual’s control – such as the chemical, radiation, and exhaust exposures we experience at work and in our daily lives. She also works with a variety of provincial partners in BC across the cancer prevention spectrum.