Staff Biography

Jane MacDonald Daye, M.A.M Senior Program Analyst/Program Director Office of the Director Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities National Cancer Institute 6116 Executive Blvd., Suite 602 Rockville, MD 20852 phone: (301) 594-5946 fax: (301) 435-9225 email: dayej@mail.nih.gov

Jane L. MacDonald-Daye, M.A., is the Acting Deputy Director of the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD). Ms. Daye is charged with managing the budget planning, formulation, and execution of the CRCHD budget, managing the CRCHD administrative team, and leading CRCHD efforts to develop strategies to participate in global efforts to reduce cancer health disparities.

Prior to joining the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Ms. Daye was a social worker and community program director, specializing in child abuse and juvenile justice issues. Ms. Daye came to NCI as a Presidential Management Fellow in 1987 and spent nine years as an administrator in the NCI’s clinical oncology program and manager in budget planning, analysis, and formulation, and as a senior legislative analyst in Congressional Affairs at NCI and NIH. In 1996, she was invited to work with the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee as Deputy Minority Clerk for the Senate Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, and Education. She returned to NCI in 2000 as a member of the President’s Cancer Panel staff and joined the NCI Director’s Transition Team charged with establishing the CRCHD. She was appointed by the first Center Director, Dr. Harold P. Freeman, as Special Assistant to the Director, Administrative Manager of the Center, and Program Director for the Pacific Cancer Initiative.

Ms. Daye received her Bachelor’s Degree in psychology and sociology from Heidelberg College, and Master’s Degree from Bowling Green State University in Political Science.

Selected Publications and Presentations

President’s Cancer Panel Report: Voices of a Broken System: Real People, Real Problems, Report of the Chairman 2000-2001

President’s Cancer Panel Report: Facing Cancer in Indian Country: The Yakama Nation and Pacific Northwest Tribes, Report of the Chairman 2002 Annual Report

Freeman, HP, Excess Cervical Cancer Mortality: A Marker for Low Access to Health Care in Poor Communities, National Cancer Institute, Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities, May 2005