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Prof. Elisabete Weiderpass
Science Policy Committee
Chair
Dr Weiderpass is an expert in cancer epidemiology and cancer prevention, with a particular interest in cancer registration, the understanding of cancers and the implementation of effective prevention strategies. She is the co-author of more than 1,000 scientific articles (ORCID: 0000-0003-2237-0128) in peer-reviewed international journals. She is a member of the EU Mission Board for Cancer, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Institut Gustave Roussy (Paris, France), a member of the Governing Council of the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm), (Paris, France), a member of the Scientific Council of the Centre Léon Bérard (Lyon, France) and a Steering Committee member of the WHO Academy.
Prior to joining IARC, Dr Weiderpass served as Head, Department of Research at the Cancer Registry of Norway (Oslo, Norway), and of the Genetic Epidemiology Group at the Folkhälsan Research Center (Helsinki, Finland). She served as Professor of Medical Epidemiology at the Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden), and as Professor of Cancer Epidemiology at the Arctic University of Norway (Tromso, Norway). She has held visiting professorship positions in cancer epidemiology in Brazil, China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Kuwait, and is an honorary Adjunct Professor at the Yale School of Public Health (Connecticut, USA).
Born and raised in Brazil, Dr Weiderpass is a naturalized citizen of Sweden and Finland.
