Dr Harriet Rumgay, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Scientist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) - World Health Organization. A cancer epidemiologist by training, Dr Rumgay works in the Cancer Surveillance Branch at IARC where she investigates the impact of modifiable risk factors on the global burden of cancer. Since 2018 her work at IARC has focused on alcohol-related cancers as well as cancers related with other major risk factors such as tobacco and obesity.
From 2015 to 2018 Dr Rumgay worked in the Cancer Intelligence Team at Cancer Research UK (CRUK). At CRUK she compiled statistics and epidemiological evidence on the primary prevention of cancer and was heavily involved in studies to estimate the burden of cancer in the United Kingdom (UK) attributable to modifiable risk factors.
Dr Rumgay’s major publications include estimates of the global burden of cancer attributable to alcohol, assessments of the global burden of primary liver cancer, and estimations of preventable cancers in the UK.
