The concept of IARC Research Teams was developed to facilitate the scientific work within and across IARC’s Research Branches by reducing the silo approach within Branches and introducing a more flexible modality of scientific collaboration on closely related research.
Teams are informal organizational units within a Research Branch or across Branches. The main task of a Team is to manage the implementation of two or more thematically related research or technical projects towards a common goal. The creation of Teams is based on needs and added value.
The rationale and purpose of Research Teams:
- Clustering related research or technical projects and gaining synergies while minimizing duplication
- Facilitating the development and achievement of larger goals
- Enhancing the public health impact of projects
- Enhancing flexibility and agility to use resources according to needs in a timely manner
- Reducing the administrative burden
- Creating leadership opportunities for early-career or mid-career personnel
- Ensuring a stimulating and interactive research and work environment, including bringing together motivated and complementary individuals
Cancer Types Teams
- Childhood Cancer Awareness and Research Evidence Team (CCARE)
- Gastric Cancer Prevention Team (GCP)
- IARC Cervical Cancer Elimination Initiative (CCEI) Team
- IARC Global Breast Cancer Initiative (GBCI) Team
- Oesophageal Cancer Team (ECA)
- Oral Cancer Team (OCT)
Innovations Teams
- Biostatistics and Data Integration Team (BDI)
- Cancer Inequalities Team (CIN)
- Computational Cancer Genomics Team (CCG)
- Hormones and Metabolism Team (HorM)
- Sustainable Lifestyle and Cancer Team (SLC)
- Nutrition, Cancer, and Multimorbidity Team (NCM)
- Occupational Cancer Epidemiology Team (OCE)
- Onco-Metabolomics Team (OMB)
- Population-Based Long-Term Surveillance (LTS) IARC–Japan Team
- Public Health Decision Science Team (PHDS)
- Research for Implementation Team (RFI)
- Risk Assessment and Early Detection Team (RED)