Education

PhD, Health Education

University of Toledo

MA, English

DePaul University

BA, English

The Ohio State University

Dr. Aaron J Kruse-Diehr is an assistant professor in the Department of Health, Behavior & Society. His research centers on rural health disparities, with specific attention to  using community-engaged methods to implement evidence-based cancer prevention and control programs. Before joining the faculty in 2019, Dr. Kruse-Diehr has collaborated with faith community nurses and health departments across southern Illinois to improve colorectal cancer screening rates in rural communities and worked with researchers from Missouri and Illinois to build cancer control capacity in rural southern Illinois health clinics. Here at UK, he will be acting as a co-investigator on the multilevel Accelerating Colorectal Cancer Screenings through Implementation Science (ACCSIS) project, facilitating community-level interventions in Appalachian Kentucky.