Portal del Investigador
Bernard Rachet
Professor
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, Reino Unido
Cancer epidemiology, inequalities in cancer care and in cancer survival, methodology
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Epidemiology, UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON I. Francia, 2000
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Doctorate in Medicine, University Saint-Etienne, France. Chile, 1996
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Epidemiology, University Paris-Sud, France. Chile, 1994
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Fellow, UK Faculty of Public Health. Reino Unido, 2011
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Professor Full Time
LSHTM
Reino Unido
2002 - A la fecha
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Researcher Full Time
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Reino Unido
2002 - A la fecha
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Post-doctoral fellow Full Time
INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier
Canada
1999 - 2002
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Doctoral fellow Full Time
International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC)
Francia
1995 - 1999
I have supervised in the UK:
- More than 20 MSc students from the Masters in Epidemiology, in Statistics and in Public Health
- Nearly 10 PhD students in Epidemiology or Statistics
I have (co-)organised and taught on:
- five-day short courses based in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - every year since 2006
- multiple short courses and workshops (1 to 5 days long), including in the UK (London, Warwick), Brazil (San Paulo), Spain (Murcia and Granada), USA (Honolulu, Lexington), Portugal (Porto and Lisbon), Canada (Ottawa), France (Corte), Thailand (Bangkok)
Selected recent events
10th International Conference of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics Working Group (ERCIM WG) on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2017), London, 15 – 18 December 2017
Organiser and chair of the Special Invited Session “Current issues in causal inference for multiple mediators”
Organiser, speaker and host of the join CSG and NCRI Consumer Forum event: “Driving with Data – a Journey into Cancer Epidemiology (13 Feb 2017)
Main organiser and host of a three-day international conference “Population-based Time-to-event Analyses International Conference”, London, 30 Aug – 1 Sept 2016
Invited talks at Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer Forum, with the Royal Society of Medicine, London, 16-17 Sept 2016
• Epidemiology of breast cancer in young women
• Breast cancer: the extent of the problem in young women
Invited talks at 7th National Congress of the French Cancerology Networks, Nantes (France), 28-30 September 2016
• Use of population-based data to evaluate and define cancer policies
Invited talks at ISPED Bordeaux (France), 27 June 2017
• Causal inference for the analysis of socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival
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Cancer Survival Programme
Cancer Research UK
Reino Unido, 2015
Five-year programme award from Cancer Research UK - 2015-2020, £2.3M, PI This programme of research aims to understand the mechanisms underlying the inequalities in cancer care and cancer survival in the UK.
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Early diagnosis policy research programme
Cancer Research UK
Reino Unido, 2014
This three-year programme of research was commissioned by Cancer Research UK investigated the policy implications associated with poor cancer performance in the UK. Period: 2014-17 Amount: £555K I was the co-PI
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Missed opportunities for earlier cancer diagnosis along the diagnostic pathway and effect on colorectal cancer diagnosis following emergency presentation
Cancer Research UK
Reino Unido, 2014
I was the co-Investigator of this three-year Early Diagnosis Advisory Group Grant, £98K Emergency presentation of cancer is an issue in England as it concerns a high proportion of cancer patients; their survival is in general lower than among the other cancer patients. We aimed to identify the main predictors of these emergency presentations.
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Chair of Excellence, European Regional Development Fund and Region Basse-Normandie
European Commission
Francia, 2013
This European chair (for which I was co-PI) enabled me and one of my junior colleagues to spend two months a year in a INSERM unit including a population-based cancer registry, in order to collaborate on inequalities in cancer care in France and England.
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Cancer Awareness, Screening & Early Diagnosis
Department of Health
Reino Unido, 2011
This Policy Research Unit was created in 2011, initially for five years. The award was renewed for three additional years (until end of 2018). This unit is consortium of six teams from different UK universities investigating the role of cancer awareness on late diagnosis and inequalities, the inequalities in screening and in early diagnosis. It also assesses the policy initiatives in these three areas as well as make propositions to the health authorities. The overall amount of the grant is nearly £7M including over £600K for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I am the PI for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
