The Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is responsible for the leadership of the Agency by providing: the general framework for attainment of the Agency’s mission in accordance with the IARC Statute, Rules and Regulations.
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Publications
Key Publications
27 April 2019 – Elisabete Weiderpass: charting a new course for IARC
16 May 2018 – A personal view on the role of IARC in cancer control
Highlights
Highlights
- IARC at the International Congress on Occupational Health 2024
- IARC Director addresses policy-makers and health workers in Brazil to mark 50 years of FOSP
- IARC Director speaks about the current and future burden of cancer at the World Oncology Forum
- Dr Elisabete Weiderpass re-elected as IARC Director
- IARC and the National Cancer Center of China launch a regional Learning Centre
- Delegates from the National Cancer Center of Mongolia visit IARC
- Video “Vencer ou sobreviver ao cancro” – Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
- IARC Director Dr Elisabete Weiderpass meets partners in India to improve cancer control in the region
- IARC scientists participate in Vatican conference to decrease inequalities in cancer
- Japan and IARC celebrate 50 years of Japan as an IARC Participating State
- Podcast “Let’s talk cancer”: Obesity, nutrition and cancer
- IARC Director Dr Elisabete Weiderpass plants a tree at the Nouveau Centre building
- International Childhood Cancer Day 2021: Targeting Childhood Cancer through the Global Initiative for cancer registry development (CHILDGICR)
- IARC Director presents the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s 171st Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine
- IAEA-IARC-WHO annual strategic consultation
- Report of the Mission Board for Cancer presented to the European Commission
- Address by the IARC Director to the Governing Council
- 7th IARC Cancer and Society Lecture
- First Stone Ceremony for new IARC headquarters building
- IARC Scientific Council meets in Lyon
- Dr Elisabete Weiderpass presents World Cancer Report: Cancer Research for Cancer Prevention
- IARC, Rotary Club de Lyon, and Fondation de France Centre-Est hold joint conference on balanced diet and cancer prevention
- 50 Years of the Singapore Cancer Registry
- Visit of Dr Mari Nygård
- World Cancer Report Questions and Answers
- Visit of delegation from Danish Cancer Society
- IARC signs Memorandum of Understanding with DKFZ
- Video “Parabéns ao Registro de Câncer de Base Populacional do Município de São Paulo pelos 50 anos”
- IARC Director Dr Elisabete Weiderpass selected as member of Mission Board for Cancer
- Podcast “Global Impact of HPV Vaccination with Elisabete Weiderpass”
- U.S. NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO “A Call For More Research On Cancer’s Environmental Triggers”
- IARC Director attends international conference on prevention of HPV-associated cancers
- Visit of IARC Director to the Istituto Superiore di Sanità
- 6th Early Career Scientists Association (ECSA) Scientific and Career Day
- Visit of the Minister of Public Health of Lebanon to IARC
- Sixty-first Session of the IARC Governing Council
- Hungary joins the International Agency for Research on Cancer
- Visit of IARC Director Dr Elisabete Weiderpass to the Centre for Cancer Epidemiology of the Tata Memorial Centre and other sites in India
- IARC Director Dr Elisabete Weiderpass meets the Minister of Health of Lebanon
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