Topics: Infection-related cancer, inequalities, migrant health
Nienke (Catharina Johanna) Alberts is a passionate epidemiologist in the field of infectious diseases and cancer with a focus on migrant health. Nienke is currently working on Cancer RADAR, a collaborative project between Epidemiology and Data Science (EDS) department and International Agency on Research and Cancer of the WHO (IARC-WHO) . The aim of Cancer RADAR is to map the cancer risk of infection-related and screening preventable cancer types among individuals with a migration background in Europe. This project is supported by a Veni ZonMw grant. Nienke also provides scientific support for the European Code Against Cancer, 5th edition (ECAC5) Working Group 3 on Infections. She currently works as Assistant Professor at EDS and is a researcher at Public Health Service (GGD) of Amsterdam.
Nienke holds a MSc in Medical Physics (VU Amsterdam) and a second MSc in Epidemiology (Erasmus University). She obtained her PhD at the GGD Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC on the Epidemiology of HPV and HPV vaccine acceptability among individuals with a migration background in Amsterdam. After her PhD, she worked at Stanford University (CA,USA), where she contributed to the analyses of community-based interventions to improve dengue prevention in rural Kenya. Next, she moved to IARC-WHO (Lyon, France) where she investigated the epidemiology of a range of infection-related cancers. In the summer of 2022, she moved to the Netherlands to work at the GGD of Amsterdam on a collaborative project with the Epidemiology and Data Science (EDS) Department of Amsterdam UMC on HPV vaccine effectiveness in men who have sex with men.