Co-principals: Claudia Allemani and Michel Coleman

The CONCORD programme for global surveillance of cancer survival is led by the Cancer Survival Group at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The most recent study examined data for over 25 million individual cancer patients diagnosed 1995-2009, provided by 279 population-based cancer registries in 67 countries that are home to two-thirds of the world’s population.

Dr Claudia Allemani was awarded the UK Faculty of Public Health’s inaugural Global Public Health Award in 2016 for her work on the CONCORD programme.

The CONCORD programme is endorsed by 31 national and international agencies, including the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the National Cancer Institutes of France and the USA, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the World Bank. For more information please see our website.

Dates: November 2012 – February 2019

Funder: Wellcome Trust

Staff: David Leon, Martin McKee

Description

Russia has the highest mortality from cardiovascular disease in the world. This project aims to identify key reasons for this very high public health burden which will help inform the development of strategies to improve the situation. A series of detailed studies compares the cardiovascular system of a large sample of the Russian population with that in Norway and other Western countries. It brings together for the first time available high quality data from epidemiological studies in Russia to generate the most authoritative summary of cardiovascular risk factors levels in Russia. Comparative studies of the validity of cause of death in Russia and Norway are also conducted as well as a systematic investigation of the potential contribution of access to and standards of treatment.

Collaborators

New Economic School, Moscow
For further information, please contact David Leon