Dr. Shannon is a population scientist. As such, her work begins with consideration of the distribution and determinants of disease at the population level.  Over the years her diverse training in Nutrition Science (BS), Public Health (MPH), Nutritional Epidemiology (PhD) and Cancer Epidemiology (post-doc) has allowed her to explore many levels of analysis in my field, including the individual- level (dietary intake ) and the micro-level (molecular markers, genetic polymorphisms), but always with an intent of population level application.  Additionally, as a result of her training from basic science into public health and population science, she has found that translational research was a very comfortable fit for her work.  While not an expert in the basic sciences she was able to “speak the language” and successfully develop and implement highly collaborative research that included molecular, genetic and epidemiologic endpoints.   This approach to research allowed for the development of numerous strong partnerships within the institution, across institutions and across the country to address questions in cancer prevention and population health in an innovative and multidisciplinary fashion. During the first 10 years with OHSU her work has focused primarily on translation from the bench to the clinic (T1 and T2).  However, more recently she has consciously shifted a portion of her time toward roles that allow her to expand translational research to the population (T3 and T4) through community engagement.  Dr, Shannon has taken on a number of administrative positions in which she is charged with developing and implementing strategies for building the structure for sustained research partnerships with the community.  These positions include: Associate Director at OCTRI and Associate Director of Knight Cancer Institute Community Outreach and Engagement.  Through these positions, she has brought her experience in population methods to this work in community engagement and education. Specifically, she co-developed and expanded an education and research program, Let’s Get Healthy!, that provides personalized health education to school children and adults through an interactive health fair, while supporting the development and growth of a population-based anonymous data repository for academic and community use. She is also Co-PI for the Healthy Oregon Project, a statewide cohort of over 40,000 individuals to understand population based genetic screening and behavioral risk for cancer and other chronic conditions. Further, her training and early career in population science has also informed her efforts to utilize both epidemiologic and community-based methodologies in addressing the long-term goal of enhancing community engagement in research and the research process. To this end, she has developed a formal mechanism for working collaboratively with community groups and hospital systems in regions throughout the State to bring the power of academic research to community level decision-making. The result of this work has been the establishment of OHSU Community Outreach, Research & Engagement, an integration of the community focused work of multiple institutes across campus and includes community research liaisons and community cancer control specialists located throughout the state.  Finally, Dr. Shannon's  work with community has expanded beyond the borders of the United States and she has taken on leadership of one of the featured programs within the OHSU Global-Bangkok Dusit Medical System partnership, implementation of Let’s Get Healthy!-Global in support of worker health.