Adele Green

Adele Green is a Senior Scientist at QIMR Berghofer Institute of Medical Research in Brisbane, Australia (www.qimrberghofer.edu.au) and in Manchester, UK, she is a Senior Research Scientist at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute (www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk) and Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Manchester (www.manchester.ac.uk). She trained in medicine and her research career has focused on the causes, management and prevention of cancer, especially melanoma and other skin cancers, ovarian cancer and cancer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people for which she has received various awards. Her current research program includes studies of prevention of skin cancers in organ transplant recipients and survival and quality of life of patients with high-risk primary melanoma, as well as collaborative studies of gynaecological cancer, cancer risk prediction and clinico-pathologic studies of melanoma. She has served on many IARC committees including the Scientific Council, and is currently a member of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection; Chair of Cancer Australia’s Research and Data Advisory Group, and a Member of the Australian Paediatric Cancer Registry Advisory Committee and the Australian Radiation Health and Safety Advisory Council.