Dr. Michael A. Preston expertise includes the development of health and diversity initiatives that provide roadmaps for engaging communities that tend to be underrepresented, rural, and under-resourced. Dr. Preston has been the principal or co-investigator of multiple funded grants focusing on the implementation of precision public health interventions, cancer health disparities, and health care reform. As a health services researcher, he develops strategies that reduce cancer disparities and examines how provisions of the Affordable Care Act address cancer health disparities among under-resourced, minorities, and underserved communities. In 2021, he launched the RURaL [Reaching the Underserved, Rural, and Low-Income] Lab for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Cancer Disparities to facilitate his research activities.
Post-doctoral Fellowship - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2016
Ph.D. - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 2013
M.P.H. - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 2004
