Jin Young Park, PhD

Dr Jin Young Park obtained her MSc from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK and MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. Dr Park leads the Gastric Cancer Prevention Team at the International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization. Her research involves a broad range of international epidemiological studies on Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric cancer with the aim to search for and implement effective strategies for prevention. She is the IARC principal investigator of large scale randomized clinical trials evaluating the role of H. pylori eradication with endoscopic follow-up in gastric cancer reduction (HELPER, GISTAR), global gastric cancer risk factor surveys (ENIGMA studies), studies dedicated to identifying metabolic biomarkers (META-GC, INTL-CC), and European projects for gastric cancer prevention (EUROHELICAN, TOGAS, GC guidelines & QA schemes).