Elisabete Weiderpass#
| Membership Number: | 6306 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.iarc.who.int |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2237-0128 |
| Twitter: | @IARC_DIR |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-elisabete-weiderpass-89117331 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Director; International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization (IARC/WHO), Lyon, France
- 2015 - 2018 Head of Research Department and Head of Etiological cancer research group, Senior researcher; Cancer Registry of Norway, Research Department, Oslo, Norway
- 2011 - 2018 Professor in Medical Epidemiology; Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2008-2018 Professor in Cancer Epidemiology; The Arctic University of Norway (earlier: University of Tromsø), Department of Community Medicine, Tromsø, Norway
- 2007 - 2018 Senior Researcher/ Genetic Epidemiology Group Leader; Folkhälsan Research Center, Program for Genetic Research, Helsinki, Finland
- 2005 - 2011 Associate Professor, Senior Lector in Medical Epidemiology; Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2005 - 2011 Senior Cancer Epidemiologist; Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway
- 2004 Senior Cancer Epidemiologist; Finnish Cancer Registry, Helsinki, Finland
- 2004 Professor in Cancer Epidemiology (nominated); Tampere School of Public Health, Tampere, Finland
- 2003 Associate Professor in Cancer Epidemiology (Docent); Tampere School of Public Health, Tampere, Finland
Fields of Scholarship
- Etiological factors in female cancers
- Factors affecting cancer survival
- Exposure to industrial or environmental pollutants in air, food and water
- Identification of new risk factors: linked to diet, obesity and physical activity, occupational and lifestyle hazards
- Cancer epidemiology and cancer prevention
- Understanding the causes of human cancer
Honours and Awards
- 2021 - present Co-Chair of the Scientific Council of the Fondation Gustave Roussy, Paris, France
- 2019 - present Member of the European Commission Expert Group: Mission Board for cancer
- 2019 - present Member of the the Directoire Cancéropôle Lyon Auvergne Rhône-Alpes – CLARA, France
- 2019 - present Visiting Adjunct Professor, Yale School of Public Health, University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- 2017 - 2018 Visiting Professor, Teheran University of Medical Sciences, Cancer Research Center, Teheran, IR Iran
- 2017 - 2018 Visiting Professor; University of Helsinki, Finland
- 2017 - 2018 Visiting Professor; Donggang Branch of First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Key Laboratory of Biological Treatment and Regenerative Medicine, Gansu Province, PR China
- 2017 - 2018 Visiting Professor; Health Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait
- 2017 - 2018 Visiting Professor; Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait
- 2013 - 2016 Visiting Adjunct Professor of Cancer Epidemiology; Gansu Provincial Maternity and Child Care Hospital, Lanzhou, PR China
- 2013 Visiting scientist; Cornell Medical College, Doha, Qatar
- 2012 Visiting scientist; Cancer Institute of Iran, Teheran, Iran
- 2012 Visiting scientist; Mt Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
- 2011 Visiting Professor; University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
- 2011 Visiting scientist; Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- 2010 Visiting scientist; National Cancer Center, Korean Cancer Institute, Goyang, Republic of Korea
- 2010 Senior Research Fellow; National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan
