IARC visiting program

Cancer Research Center has organized a visiting program in April 26th by which two deligates of IARC, Prof. Freddie Bray and Prof. Rajesh Dikshit will travel to Iran to evaluate the infrastracture of Population-based Cancer Registry based on the International standards. Beside the program, a two-day workshop on population-based cancer registry will be held For the program officials and agents at provicial level. For more information about the workshop enrollment and timetable, please view our website at: registry.hbi.ir.

arafei

I am a Survey Methodologist with a solid background in Statistics and Data Science! I received my Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 2008, and then, graduated in master of Biostatistics from Tehran University of Medical Sciences. My theoretical interests are mainly focused on survey statistics, mixture models, and Bayesian inference. The applied area of my research concerns with disease modeling and statistical problems that arise in the surveillance systems. I am currently a PhD student in Survey Methodology at the University of Michigan.