LeeAnn Bailey is chief of the Integrated Networks Branch of the National Cancer Institute’s Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities since 2016. In this role, she manages, develops and assesses strategies for enhancing the integration and dissemination of diversity training, women’s health, and sexual and gender minority efforts within and across NCI, as well as within the scientific community and underserved communities through NCI-supported networks. She also identifies and leverages opportunities to address unmet needs in cancer health disparities research.

Prior to joining NCI, she was a healthcare consultant at Deloitte Consulting LLP. She has also been a principal investigator researching tissue-engineered products and cellular inflammatory responses at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, as well as an adjunct professor at Morgan State University. Bailey received her M.B.B.S (M.D. equivalent) from the University of Adelaide Medical School with an emphasis on aboriginal health and pediatric oncology. She also has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and an M.S. in Biological and Physical Sciences from the University of Virginia School of Medicine.