Barbara Duffy Stewart, MPH

Since 1999, Barbara Duffy Stewart has served as executive director of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI), comprised of 95 of the leading academic and freestanding cancer research centers in the United States. Ms. Stewart oversees all administrative, financial and external affairs of the Association, and conceives and implements programs and strategies that benefit the nation’s cancer centers and contribute to the goals of the national cancer program.

Before joining AACI, Ms. Stewart was director of Communications and Public Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI). She was responsible for UPCI’s interactions with business, community, and government leaders to increase awareness of UPCI’s novel cancer programs and activities.

Ms. Stewart also managed government affairs for UPCI. She was instrumental in the founding of the Pennsylvania Cancer Alliance, an association of Pennsylvania cancer centers that secured 19 percent of Pennsylvania’s tobacco settlement funds for biomedical research.

Prior to UPCI, Ms. Stewart was the program coordinator of a National Institute of Mental Health-funded study to investigate the psychological sequelae of sexual assault. She has authored several peer-reviewed papers, monographs and invited publications on this topic.

Ms. Stewart sits on the Board of Directors of the National Coalition for Cancer Research, Washington, DC, Friends of Cancer Research, Washington, DC, and the Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials (ENACCT) in Silver Spring, Maryland. She has served on several Pittsburgh area non-profit boards including the Center for Victims of Violent Crime, Contact Pittsburgh, and Family House, Inc., where she was a member of the executive committee and chaired the public relations committee.

Ms. Stewart earned a Master of Public Health degree at the University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Government at Georgetown University.