Freddie Bray PhD

Dr Bray is Head of the Cancer Surveillance Section at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in Lyon, France. He has worked previously at IARC 1998-2005 and at the Cancer Registry of Norway and University of Oslo 2005-2010. He has a PhD in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and degrees in Statistics from the University of Aberdeen and Medical Statistics from the University of Leicester, U.K. His areas of research revolve around the descriptive epidemiology of cancer, including the estimation of the global cancer burden and the analysis of time trends including global predictions of the future scale and profile of cancer linked to human development transitions. He has close to 200 book chapters and articles in journals including The Lancet, Lancet Oncology, JNCI and Nature Reviews Cancer.