2025 Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Celebration of Early Career Investigators
November 4, 2025 from 1:00-5:30PM
In-Person at Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Yawkey Conference Center
Early career investigators are a unique reservoir of new ideas, innovation, and excellence in cancer research. To celebrate this, we welcome you to join the 13th Annual DF/HCC Celebration of Early Career Investigators in Cancer Research. This symposium will showcase the talent of early career investigators at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) who work in several areas of population science, including epidemiology, biostatistics, outcomes, diversity, and survivorship. We invite all members of the public to attend the event.
2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Jane J Kim, PhD
KT Li Professorship in Health Economics at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Talk Title: Cervical Cancer Prevention: The Quintessential and Persistent Public Health Challenge
Abstract: Effective and cost-effective preventive strategies against cervical cancer have been available for several decades. HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening hold such promise that the World Health Organization Director General issued a call for the global elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem in 2018. Despite these available options, cervical cancer remains hugely burdensome with wide disparities in incidence and mortality around the globe, and even within the United States.
This talk chronicles the progress towards cervical cancer elimination over the past two decades and the many remaining challenges. I discuss this quintessential public health problem from the lens of decision sciences as an approach to evidence-based decision making that has informed policy recommendations for HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening in the United States and globally. Professional development and lessons learned through research collaborations, which were found to be portable to leadership roles more broadly, are shared.
Registration for the public is now open at https://bit.ly/ECIS2025
More info at: https://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/ecis