Echo Warner, PhD
As a first-generation college student from a frontier rural community, Dr. Echo Warner is passionate about public health research that can directly contribute to improving wellbeing among historically marginalized communities. Her research program in cancer health disparities focuses on leveraging social technology, digital health, and artificial intelligence to improve psychosocial and health outcomes for cancer patients and caregivers, with an emphasis on adolescents and young adults. Her current research aims to promote equity in online cancer communication and information seeking through community engagement and patient navigation interventions that leverage social media.
Dr. Warner studied young adult cancer caregiver’s use of social media for social support as a doctoral student at the University of Utah where she was supported by two national fellowships, the National Cancer Institute’s Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award (F31) and the Jonas Philanthropies Jonas Scholar Fellowship. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Arizona Cancer Center on an NCI-funded T32 in Cancer Prevention and Control Health Disparities Training Program. Since rejoining the University of Utah as an Assistant professor and Associate member of the Huntsman Cancer Institute,
Dr. Warner has been continuously funded by the National Cancer Institute to study cancer health outcomes. Dr. Warner enjoys living in Utah and exploring the great outdoors with her husband Zach and their two children Cyrus (9) and Ophelia (5) and their bernedoodle Yuki.