Famous epidemiologist Iacopo Baussano to join 6th International Medical Congress of Armenia

March 10, 2023  18:19

Infectious diseases physician (M.D. & CIDS) and epidemiologist (M.Sc., Ph.D.), Dr․ Iacopo Baussano will join the 6th Medical Congress of Armenia as a plenary speaker.

He is the Leader of the Public Decision Modelling Team, within the Early Detection, Prevention, and Infections (EPR) Branch at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization (IARC/WHO) Lyon, France.  Before joining the Agency in 2012, Dr․ Baussano worked at the Center for Oncologic Prevention in Turin, Italy, and at the School of Public Health of the Imperial College of London, UK, where his investigations were mostly focused on infectious disease control among vulnerable populations in both high and low/middle-income countries.

In the field of cervical cancer control, he combines quantitative and predictive modelling with field-epidemiology to assess the impact of HPV vaccination and HPV-DNA based screening in both high and low/middle-income countries (LMICs). Dr․ Baussano is also actively engaged in knowledge and technology transfer from HICs to LMICs.

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