Health Information on Cancer and Rare Diseases
Since 2012, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (DG JRC) together with its policy partner, DG Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE), is working to improve data, information and knowledge on cancer and rare diseases to serve both EU policy and epidemiological research.
Being independent of all commercial, private and national interests, the JRC in ideally positioned to foster health knowledge for EU society. Established in 1957, the JRC also provides a sustainable platform giving consistency and continuity to health information initiatives – this brings many advantages compared to short-terms grants. Finally, as the EC's in-house science service, the JRC has a proven track record in data harmonisation & standardisation and its vision is to combine EU health data with other data sets like environmental, clinical and socio-economic indicators will give the EU an invaluable knowledge resource.
In this presentation, Ciarán Nicholl will present what the EC has achieved since 2012 on EU health information for cancer and rare diseases.
Being independent of all commercial, private and national interests, the JRC in ideally positioned to foster health knowledge for EU society. Established in 1957, the JRC also provides a sustainable platform giving consistency and continuity to health information initiatives – this brings many advantages compared to short-terms grants. Finally, as the EC's in-house science service, the JRC has a proven track record in data harmonisation & standardisation and its vision is to combine EU health data with other data sets like environmental, clinical and socio-economic indicators will give the EU an invaluable knowledge resource.
In this presentation, Ciarán Nicholl will present what the EC has achieved since 2012 on EU health information for cancer and rare diseases.
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Ciáran Nicholl
JRC's Directorate for Health, Consumers and Reference Materials, EC
Ciarán obtained a PhD in cancer research at Heidelberg University (DE), an MSc degree at Kingston University and Kings College Hospital (UK) and a BSc degree plus three third-level diplomas and certificates in science, respectively at Galway University and at the Sligo Institute of Technology (IE).
He completed a post-doctorate fellowship in th…