Journal of Cytology & Histology

You-lin Qiao

You-lin Qiao
Director for Department of Cancer Epidemiology
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, National Cancer Center, Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China

Biography

You-lin Qiao, MD, PhD, professor and Director for Department of Cancer Epidemiology, National Cancer Center, Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Beijing, China. Before returning back to China in 1997, he was training for 11 years at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health and Cancer Prevention Studies Branch, NCI/NIH, USA. He is also director of International Collaboration Department, Cancer Foundation of China, and Deputy Director of the MOH National Expert Committee for Cancer Screening and Prevention in China. He is an author on over 480 peer reviewed publications in both English and Chinese. As an expert in cancer prevention and control, he served as WHO Director-General’s Cancer Control Advisory Committee and WHO’s Cancer Technical Advisory Groups for helping to promote cancer prevention and control programs in developing countries. He is involved in many national and international projects to study etiology, primary intervention, and early detection of a variety of cancers through multidisciplinary and global collaborations. He received 2011 WHO/IARC Medal of Honor. (The 8h Sir Richard Doll Lecture in IARC: Implementation of cancer screening and prevention in China – Evidence and Reality).

Research Interest

Cancer Prevention and Control