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Poster walk, Friday - Equity in Cancer Screening 1

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Friday, June 20, 2025
11:15 - 12:30
Smedien, Centralvaerkstedet

Speaker(s)

Dr Paula Berstad
Senior Researcher
Norwegian Institute of Public Health

139 - Effect of reminder calls in language of origin on screening participation: a randomized controlled trial in ColorectalScreen Norway

Biography

Medical doctor specializing in oncology. Phd-candidate at the Cancer Registry of Norway, working in the ImmigrantsScreen group with her project titled; Increasing access to cancer screening among immigrants.
Dr Patricia Fitzpatrick
Full Professor Of Epidemiology & Biomedical Statistics
University College Dublin

154 - Irish Traveller engagement with national cancer screening programmes and identification of the current barriers and facilitators

Biography

Dr Patricia Fitzpatrick is Full Professor of Epidemiology & Biomedical Statistics & Subject Head for Public Health, University College Dublin & Consultant in Preventative Medicine, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin. She is also Consultant Epidemiologist/Director of Evaluation for the National Screening Service, Ireland.
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Ms Karin Honig
Projectmanager
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Millieu

164 - Reaching people with low health literacy with information about cancer screening; a face-to-face approach.

Biography

Karin Honig, MSc, studied Governance and Organizational Sciences. She currently works as a project manager at the Centre for Population Screening, part of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in the Netherlands. Karin leads a three-year project focused on improving access to cancer screening programs for people with low health literacy.
Ms Lindy Huber
Phd Candidate
Erasmus Mc

183 - Exploring Access and Barriers to Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening for Transgender Individuals: Focus Groups with Patients and Healthcare Professionals

Biography

My name is Lindy Huber, and I am currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Public Health, specializing in access to cancer screening programs for transgender and gender-diverse people. I work at the Programme for Early Detection and Screening at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam. I hold a Master's degree in Nutrition and Health, with a focus on Epidemiology and Public Health, from Wageningen University & Research. My research interests are centered around public health, particularly within minority groups.
Ms Lindy Huber
Phd Candidate
Erasmus Mc

184 - Exploring Transgender Experiences and Preferences in Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Using a Nationwide Survey

Biography

My name is Lindy Huber, and I am currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Public Health, specializing in access to cancer screening programs for transgender and gender-diverse people. I work at the Programme for Early Detection and Screening at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam. I hold a Master's degree in Nutrition and Health, with a focus on Epidemiology and Public Health, from Wageningen University & Research. My research interests are centered around public health, particularly within minority groups.
Dr Carlotta Magnani
Postdoctoral Researcher
Aix Marseille Université

144 - The temporal adjustments implemented by health mediators to fight against social inequalities in cancer screening programs

Biography

Carlotta Magnani is a medical anthropology researcher. Since March 2024, she has been working at SESSTIM as a postdoctoral researcher on a study of health mediation for the prevention of cancers targeted by national screening campaigns. In 2023, she defended a thesis entitled "Living Homeless in the 21st Century: A Sensitive Ethnography of Social Emergency in Marseille." Since 2013, she has contributed to research programs on the relationship between homelessness, health, and healthcare. Her work also examines alcohol consumption in shelters, challenges for homeless youth, the sex trade in extreme precariousness, and health measures for preventing Covid-19 transmission.
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Dr Isabel Portillo
Head Of Screening Programmes
Osakidetza

146 - 15 years of the Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme: decreasing inequalities

Biography

PhD Isabel Portillo. Medical Doctor Specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Head of Screening Programmes in the Basque Country. Leader and collaborator of researcher of international, national and regional projects related to cancer screening. Member of ICSN and Spanish Cancer Screening Network. Involved in Horizon and Joint Actions innitiatives (Cancon, Ipaac, EU-topia, ECICC, ECIR). Author of publications high impact papers (ORCID: 000-002-3871-3423)
Dr Lori Sakoda
Rsch Scientist Ii Investigator
Kaiser Permanente - Dor

159 - Foundational pillars of access to mitigate disparities in lung cancer screening in rural communities: a guiding framework

Biography

Lori Sakoda, PhD, MPH, is a translational epidemiologist and research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, who is dedicated to advancing early detection, control, and effective and equitable care of lung and other cancers. She is also an Associate Professor of Health Systems Science at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. Her research primarily encompasses evaluating patterns of care, health disparities, and outcomes along the continuum from pulmonary nodule evaluation to lung cancer treatment and survivorship, as well as assessing the application of risk prediction models to optimize cancer screening.
Dr Carlene Wilson
Professor Of Behavioural Oncology
University Of Melbourne

138 - Promoting Equity in Bowel Cancer Screening: Addressing Systemic Barriers for Mandarin-Speaking Chinese Australians

Biography

Dr Lanxi Huang has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, a Master of Education in language teaching and learning, a Master of Education in the professional development program evaluation, and a PhD in wellbeing science. She also has experience in counselling, research project coordination, and higher education teaching. Lanxi aims to promote health for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities in people-centred, contextually responsive, and systematic ways. Currently, she works on the Bowel Cancer Screening Alliance program as a research project officer at the Centre for Epidemiology & Biostatistics (CEB), School of Population and Global Health, the University of Melbourne.

Chair(s)

Kelly Bunzeluk
Director of Prevention & Screening
Cancercare Manitoba

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