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Dr. Giske Ursin Norwegian Cancer Registry Institute of Epidemiological Cancer Research |
Motivation for standing for election
As an ENCR steering group member I aim to:
• Contribute to standardization and harmonization of variables across cancer registries and countries.
• Work towards European solutions for federated analysis of registry data and safe data sharing.
• Increase use of population-based cancer registry data in research.
• Encourage and increase use of registry data among policy makers to form policy, to monitor trends over time, and to assess effects of cancer prevention and intervention programs.
• Foster greater collaboration between clinical registries and classical population-based registries.
• Support and improve educational workshops and webinars for registrars
• Work towards including country of birth into registries to ensure needed statistics for immigrant groups.
• Share experiences from the Nordic cancer registries
Short CV
MPH, University of California at Los Angeles, USA, 1985.
MD, University of Bergen. Norway, 1987.
PhD, Epidemiology, University of California at Los Angeles, USA, 1992.
Assistant, Associate, then full Professor with tenure, University of Southern California, 1992-2010.
Professor, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, 2001-2010.
Director, Cancer Registry of Norway, 2011-now.
Current positions: Director, Cancer Registry of Norway, Professor II at University of Oslo,
Professor Em., University of Southern California.
Relevant memberships: Member of the Board of the Association of Nordic Cancer Registries 2011-now (President 2012, 2017, 2024), member of the Scientific Council, IARC 2015-2019 (vice-chair 2016-2017, chair 2018-2019).
Publications: over 300 publications in PubMed in cancer epidemiology.