F. Xavier Bosch Jose

Area
Health sciences

F. Xavier Bosch (MD, MPH) is lead consultant for the Catalan Institute of Oncology's (ICO) Cancer Epidemiology Research Programme (CERP) in Barcelona, Spain. He is also executive director of the ICO/IARC Information Centre on HPV and Cervical Cancer (www.who.int/hpvcentre).

Bosch was the founder and first editor of the journal Papillomavirus Research (PVR) and editor of the international newsletter HPV WORLD (www.hpvworld.com). He was guest editor of the HPV MONOGRAPH series (Vaccine, Elsevier) and is currently organizer and director of an e-learning initiative in oncology, with a particular focus on online courses on the prevention of cervical cancer (www.eoncologia.net). Previously, he worked as an epidemiologist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (Lyon, France, 1982-1993) and was visiting scientist at the National Cancer Institute (Washington DC, USA, 2002).