Marina Kvaskoff - CV - PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health

E-mail :[email]
Phone : +33142115864
Location : Villejuif, France

Scientific topics

Public health
Environment/Ecology

Keywords

Epidemiology
Public Health
Environmental, Occupational & Public Health

ITMO

Santé publique

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Marina Kvaskoff PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health

Course and current status

EDUCATION

2017	Accreditation to Supervise Research (HDR) (mandatory diploma to supervise PhD works) Université Paris Sud, France
2006-2009	International Joint PhD in Epidemiology, Université Paris Sud (France) and University of Queensland (Australia)
2005-2006	Master’s of Public Health, Université Paris Sud (France)
2003-2005	Public Health degree (MST), Institute of Public Health, Epidemiology and Development (ISPED), Université de Bordeaux (France)
2001-2003	Biology-biochemistry degree (DEUG), Université de Nice (Year 1) and Université de Reims (Year 2) (France)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Current position

2016-

Group Leader and Tenured Scientist at Inserm (French National Institute for Health and Medical Research), Exposome and Heredity Team, Inserm U1018, France

National competitive recruitment process, only 3 tenured positions awarded annually in epidemiology

Previous positions

2015-2016	Research Scientist, Exposome and Heredity Team, Inserm U1018, France
2010-2017	Visiting Scientist, Cancer Control Group, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
2005-2006	Project Manager, Exposome and Heredity Team, Inserm U1018, France

Fellowships

2012-2015	Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow Outgoing phase: USA – 2 years Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Return phase: France – 1 year Inserm U1018, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif
2009-2012	Post-doctoral Fellow Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (USA – 1.5 years) Inserm U1018, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif (France – 1 year) QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane (Australia – 4 months)

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

2019-	Coordinator, 'Women's Health' Working Group, CONSTANCES cohort Member, 'Physical Growth and Puberty' Working Group, ELFE cohort Chair, Skin Cancer Working Group, EPIC (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition) Consortium, International Agency for Research on Cancer
2018-	Member of the Junior Board and Junior Ambassador, World Endometriosis Society (WES) Scientific Committee Chair and Principal Investigator, ComPaRe-Endometriosis cohort (community of patients for the advancement of research on chronic diseases, specific cohort on endometriosis, ComPaRe) Group Leader, ‘Endometriosis and Cancer’ Guideline Group, and Core Group Member, European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) Endometriosis Guideline Update Member, ‘Reproductive Health and Environment’ Expert Committee, Endometriosis and uterine fibroids sub-group, Santé Publique France
2017-2020	Board Member and Chair of the mentoring programme for the Paris Ile-de-France region French Association for Women in Science (Femmes & Sciences) Scientific Committee Member, Les Seintinelles (association fostering collaboration between citizens, patients, and scientists to accelerate cancer research)
2016-2019	Board Member, ADELF (Association of French Language Epidemiologists)

ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities within graduate schools

2017-2020

Advisory Board Member
Doctoral Studies Committee Member
Admission Committee Member
Coordinator of Doctoral Training Seminars
Graduate School of Public Health, Université Paris Sud

Missions:
Member of the academic team
Evaluation of admission applications
Participation to orientation meetings for new students
Annual PhD project reviews
Jury member during mid-PhD review committees and Master’s thesis defenses
Contacts with PhD students and their advisors and tutors
Coordination of the doctoral training seminar program
Coordination of the Annual Day of the Graduate School
Management of the Twitter account of the Graduate School

Member of Doctoral Studies Committee
Sahar Yammine, PhD student at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon. Thesis title: Nutrition, biomarkers of fatty acid exposure, obesity and risks of gynaecological cancer

Teaching

2021	"Epidemiology of endometriosis" and "Endometriosis and cancer" courses, Interdisciplinary University Degree (DIU) on the management of endometriosis and adenomyosis, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Lille, France
	"Endometriosis and malignancy" course, European Endometriosis League Masterclass (Bordeaux, France)
2018	"Long term health risks associated with endometriosis" course, Pre-congress course “Endometriosis – From beginning to end”, 34^th Annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) (Barcelona, Spain)
2017-	"Epidemiology of Endometriosis" course, “Endometriosis: From diagnosis to care” Training Workshop of the Endometriosis Centre of the Paris St Joseph Hospital and the RESENDO network, Paris (France)

Scientific summary

I am leading a research group within the 'Exposome and Heredity' Team of the Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP, Inserm U1018) in Villejuif. My group's research focuses on two main themes: endometriosis and cancer.

Our research on endometriosis is centered around the descriptive and analytic epidemiology of the disease involving various epidemiologic tools (the CONSTANCES, ComPaRe-Endometriosis, ELFE, and E3N-E4N prospective cohorts), each allowing to address specific research objectives. The overarching aim of our research is to advance our knowledge on endometriosis by tackling the challenges and big questions in endometriosis epidemiology that currently have no clear answer in the scientific literature.

Our group's research on cancer aims to explore risk and prognostic factors for different types of cancer. Our research mainly focuses on skin cancer epidemiology, the relations between exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals and hormone-dependent cancers in women, and post-cancer health.