Electra Paskett, PhD, has a goal: Eliminate cervical cancer. It’s possible, she explained, with increased HPV vaccinations, screenings and automatic follow-up care for women with abnormal screenings. Paskett is one of the nation’s leading epidemiologists and the OSU associate director for Population Sciences and Community Outreach, co-leader of the Cancer Control Program and founding director of the Center for Cancer Health Equity. Epidemiologists design tests, interventions and screenings to “get people to do what they need to do to reduce their risk of getting or dying from cancer,” said Paskett, a three-time breast cancer survivor. In this episode, Paskett describes a few of the many statewide programs she and her team have developed to accomplish these goals. Paskett is driven to create these programs “because people are still dying from cancer and there are still disparities … I want to give people a message of hope, that even if you hear those words, ‘you have cancer,’ there’s hope.”