Global research opportunities in cancer prevention – lecture by an expert from the USA

27.08.2025

Doctor Mark Parascandola, programme director at the Centre for Global Health – National Cancer Institute, USA, will give an open lecture entitled Research Opportunities in Global Cancer Prevention, which will take place on 1 September at 12:00 at the Division of Public Health & Social Medicine (ul. Dębinki 7, building no. 15, 80-211, Gdańsk).

The event is addressed to individuals interested in the subject matter of the meeting. The lecture will be held as part of the expert’s second guest visit to the Division of Public Health & Social Medicine of the MUG.

Speaker profile

Mark Parascandola, Ph.D., M.P.H., is Branch Chief for Research and Training in the Center for Global Health at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). He received his Doctorate in Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University and his Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. He has authored over 75 published articles on global cancer prevention, implementation science, tobacco control, and epidemiologic research methodology. He served as an editor for the NCI/WHO report The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control (2016), the NCI/CDC report Smokeless Tobacco and Public Health: A Global Perspective (2014), and the two-volume encyclopedia Tobacco: Its History and Culture (2005). Dr. Parascandola has served as an Embassy Science Fellow and expert advisor on tobacco control, air pollution and health at the U.S. Embassies in Beijing, China, and Warsaw, Poland.