IARC GICR Regional Trainers

Trained by IARC, a network of IARC GICR Regional Trainers are available to assist countries with support.

IARC GICR Regional Trainers are part of a global network of experts who support in-country capacity building.

They serve as faculty in GICR courses, assist with consultations, and contribute to new educational resources. For more information, see GICRNet.

CanReg experts provide technical assistance for IARC’s software for cancer registries. CanReg is a free, open-source program that was first released in 1986; CanReg5, the latest version, was launched in 2010 (click to view CanReg experts).

Coding and Staging experts provide technical assistance in the classification of cancer and in staging for cancer registries. The international coding standard of ICD-O-3 is used as the reference, and Essential TNM is used for staging (click to oding and staging experts).

Data Quality experts are available to provide training and technical assistance to registries. Assessments are used to help improve the accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of data. (click to view data quality experts).

Data analysisexperts have the capacity to organize courses, transfer knowledge and lead on local capacity building activities to use, analyse PBCR data, disseminate the results produced from the analysis. (click to view data analysis experts).

Childhood cancer regional trainers are available to provide training and technical assistance on registration, coding, quality assurance, analysis and use of childhood cancer data in population-based cancer registries. (click to view childhood cancer experts).

IARC GICR Regional Experts

Alisi Naiqero

Ministry of Health, Fiji

Amany Elbasmi

Kuwait Cancer Control Center, Kuwait

Anton Barchuk

Petrov National Medical and Research Centre of Oncology, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Anton Ryzhov

National Institute of Cancer, Ukraine

Anupong Sirirungreung

Phramongkutklao College of Medicine Thailand

Atul Budukh

Tata Memorial Centre, India

Bourama Coulibaly

Registre de Cancer de Bamako, Mali

Brenda Mallon

Gustave Roussy, France

Cankut Yakut

Izmir Cancer Registry, Turkey

Carina Musetti

National Cancer Registry, Uruguay

Cecile Ingabire

AFRCN Childhood Cancer Registry Project, Rwanda

Chalongpon Santong

Khon Kaen University, Thailand

Claudia Uribe

Cancer Registry of Bucaramanga Metropolitan Area, Colombia

Corey George

SickKids Caribbean Initiative, Trinidad and Tobago

Daniel Jurado

Registro Poblacional de Cáncer – Pasto, University of Nariño, Colombia

Ege İhsan Oruç Hamavioğlu

Public Health Directorate, Turkey

Elena Ten

National Cancer Registry, Kyrgyzstan

Eric Chokunonga

National Cancer Registry Zimbabwe

Erika Hartmann

Registre du Cancer, Service de Santé Publique Nouvelle Caledonie

Florencia Moreno

Programa Nacional de Cancer Pediatrico ROHA, Argentina

Franck Gnahatin

Registre du Cancer d'Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Fred Kwame Awittor

Kumasi Cancer Registry, Ghana

Gauthier Tougri

Ministère de la Santé, Cabinet du Ministre Chef de l'Unité de gestion et de transfer des connaissances (UGTC), Burkina Faso

Gholamreza Roshandel

Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Gladys Chesumbai

Moi University, Kenya

Gonçalo Forjaz de Lacerda

Azores Cancer Registry, Portugal

Hamideh Rashidian

National Cancer Institute, I.R. Iran

Hiromi Sugiyama

Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Japan

Hyunjoo Kong

Central Cancer Registry, Republic of Korea

Jacqueline Campbell

Barbados National Registry for Chronic Non-Communicable Disease (BNR)

Karima Bendahhou

Casablanca Cancer Registry, Morocco

Katy Heise Mora

Registro Hospitalario de Cáncer, Valdivia, Chile

Kayo Nakata

Osaka International Cancer Institute, Japan

Kazem Zendehdel

Deputy of Research, Cancer Research Center, Cancer Institute of Iran, Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Krittika Suwanrungruang

Cancer Unit, Srinagarind Hospital, Khon Kaen University, Thailand

Kumiko Saika

National Cancer Center, Div. of Int'l Health Policy Res./ Saku Central Hospital, Japan

Kyu-Won Jung

Central Cancer Registry, Republic of Korea

Lamia Kara

Setif Cancer Registry, Algeria

Line Couitchéré

Teaching Hospital of Treichville, Côte d'Ivoire

Lusiana Boseiwaqa

Lautoka Hospital, Fiji

Manushak Avagyan

Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia

Marianna de Camargo Cancela

Division of Population Research, INCA Brazil

María Enriqueta Bertrán

Registro Hospitalario de Valdivia, Chile

Natasha Sobers Grannum

Barbados National Registry for Chronic Non-Communicable Disease (The BNR)

Natasha Abraham

South African National Registry, South Africa

Nkese Felix

National Cancer Registry, Trinidad and Tobago

Patricia Pérez

Metropolitan Lima Cancer Registry, Lima, Peru

Piya Rujkijyanont

Division of Hematology-Oncology, Thailand

Rafael Marcos-Gragera

Unitat d'Epidemiologia i Registre de càncer de Girona (UERCG), Pla Director d'Oncologia. Departament de Salut Girona, Spain

Rama Ranganathan

Cancer Institute (WIA), India

Rongshou Zheng

National Cancer Center/ Cancer Hospital, China

Sabiha Bouzbid

Registre du cancer Annaba CHU Annaba Algeria

Sampath Pitchaimuthu

Cancer Inst (W.I.A) Chennai, India

Sarah Quesnel-Crooks

Caribbean Public Health Agency, Trinidad and Tobago

Sioape Kupu

Ministry of Health, Tonga

Soad Linneth Fuentes-Alabí

Pediatric Cancer Program and Population-Based Pediatric Cancer Registry, El Salvador

Su Özgür

Izmir Cancer Registry, KIDEM, Turkey

Suleeporn Sangrajrang

Health System Development National Cancer Centre, Thailand

Sultan Eser

Izmir Cancer Registry, Turkey

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan

Department of Medical Oncology, India

Wael Shelpai

United Arab Emirates (UAE) National Cancer Registry

Wilmer Tarupi

Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial Ecuador

Witoo Klabtawee

Roi-Et Hospital, Thailand

Xolisile Dlamini

Ministry of Health Eswatini

Yaima Galán

Registro Nacional de Cáncer de Cuba, Cuba

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