Harindra Jayasekara
I am a medically trained epidemiologist and public health physician based at Cancer Council Victoria and affiliated to the University of Melbourne. Born in Sri Lanka, I migrated to Australia in 2007 with my young family. I completed my PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Melbourne in 2014, and my doctoral work on the association between lifetime alcohol intake and risk of cancer contributed the scientific evidence for the Drink Less Live More campaign of the Cancer Council Victoria. I have a significant track record as a transitioning early-to-mid-career researcher and emerging leader in cancer epidemiology, with strong methodological expertise, extensive knowledge of biological processes underlying carcinogenesis, and experience in the design and analysis of studies examining the etiology of cancer, cancer prevention and health management. Most of my research has been set within a collaborative framework of large cohort studies and international consortia. I have been an Investigator for the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study since 2015 examining risk factors for cancer and survival following cancer, with emphasis on alcohol consumption, an area of research that I continue to lead. Currently, I lead a National Cancer Institute Cohort Consortium pooling project that aims to examine risk factors for stomach cancer, a project funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia through a 5-year grant. I am also an Investigator on a NHMRC project grant that utilizes the Cohort Consortium for a pooled analysis to assess breast cancer risk factors according to underlying genetic susceptibility.
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