EGRP-Sponsored Workshop Reports

The Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program (EGRP) has sponsored three workshops to identify barriers and gaps in cancer epidemiology and to advance solutions to study in specific areas.

• 1st NCI Epidemiology Leadership Workshop:  Tobacco, Diet, and Genes, Sept. 2004
• 2nd NCI Epidemiology Leadership Workshop:  Understudied Rare Cancers, Sept. 2005
  (co-sponsored with the NIH Office of Rare Diseases)
• 1st Workshop on Cancer Epidemiology and Genomics Variation in Hispanic/Latino Populations within the American Continents, May 2006
• Mitochondrial DNA and Cancer Epidemiology Workshop, Sept. 2006
• Vitamin D and Cancer: Current Dilemmas/Future Needs, May 2007
• Synergizing Epidemiologic Research on Rare Cancers, May 2007