IARC SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL FIFTY-EIGHTH SESSION

9 Feb 2022, 09:00 → 11 Feb 2022, 13:50 Europe/Paris

Remotely by teleconference (IARC)

Janne Pitkäniemi (Institute for Statistical and Epidemiological Cancer Research), Manami Inoue (National Cancer Center)

Welcome to the 58th Scientific Council Session Event Management Platform!

Agenda and documents

From the event display view, as participant in the Scientific Council, click on “Timetable” to have an overview of the Agenda.

Documents/Presentations

The documents and presentations are available below, under "Materials".

Please make sure you watch all presentations prior to the Session.

As SC member, you will be able to ask questions/make comments by e-mail to iarc.sc@iarc.fr before 28 January 2022.

Due to the remote format of the Session, it will concentrate on discussion and recommendations.

Documents

• SC58_0_ListDocsProv.pdf
• SC58_1_Agenda.pdf
• SC58_1_ProvAgendaVIRTUALAnnotated_2022-01-21.pdf
• SC58_2_BiennialReport20-21.pdf
• SC58_3_Update_Data_Science.pdf
• SC58_4_RecommendationsWGEvaluationMTS21-25_Final.pdf
• SC58_5_CovidCancer.pdf
• SC58_6_EducationTrainingActivities.pdf
• SC58_7_NCandRM.pdf
• SC58_8_Report.pdf
• SC58_9_ListParticipantsForPosting.pdf

Presentations

• 4_Item_4_IARC 2021 Achievements (4-2-2022).mov
• Item10_COVID_FINAL.pdf
• Item12_Summary-SC-recommendations _posterSession.pdf
• Item4_DirectorReport-SC58_FINAL.pdf
• Item6_GEM_ResponseReviewers.pdf
• SC58-3_Update_Data_Science.mp4
• SC58_4_MTSimplementation15Dec2021video.ppsx
• SC58_6_EducationTraining_notes.pdf
• SC58_7_NouveauCentre_Part1_Update.pdf
• SC58_7_NouveauCentre_Part2_Mobilization.mp4

Useful additional information 2022-01-11-Orientation session-SC58-FINAL.pdf Technical_GuidelinesRemoteSC58_2022.pdf

Wednesday, 9 February

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary Sessions: Plenary Session

09:00 Item 1. Opening of the Session (all)

09:05 Item 2. Election of Rapporteur (all)

09:10 Item 3. Adoption of the Agenda (all)

09:15 Item 4. Discussion on the Director’s Report (all) including: 4a. Biennial Report 2020–2021 (all) 4b. Highlights from the meeting of the 63rd Session of the Governing Council, held remotely (all) 4c. Director’s update from the 57th Session of the Scientific Council (all)

10:30 → 11:00 Group Photograph & Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Closed Sessions: Closed Session

11:00 Item 5. Discussion with the Director (DIR), the Director of Administration and Finance (DAF) and the Scientific Council only (SC + DIR/DAF/DIR-PO/DOC)

Speakers: Agnes Meneghel (IARC), Elisabete Weiderpass (IARC), Pål Richard Romundstad (Professor), Stephen M. Robbins (CANADA), Tamas Landesz (IARC), Veronique Chajes (IARC)

11:30 Item 6. Director’s response to the Genomic Epidemiology Branch (GEM) Review, held remotely in January 2021 (details of action taken) (SC + DIR/DAF/ DIR-PO/DOC/GEM Heads only)

Speakers: Agnes Meneghel (IARC), Elisabete Weiderpass (IARC), James Mckay (IARC), Paul Brennan (IARC), Pål Richard Romundstad (Professor), Stephen M. Robbins (CANADA), Tamas Landesz (IARC), Veronique Chajes (IARC)

12:00 → 12:30 Plenary Sessions: Plenary Session

12:00 Item 7. Update on Data Science activities (all)

Speakers: Matthieu Foll (IARC), Nicolas Tardy (IARC), Vivian Viallon (IARC)

12:30 → 13:00 Wrap up: Wrap up: Day's report

12:30 Item 8. Review the day’s report and agree on recommendations (SC + DIR/ note takers/DOC)

Thursday, 10 February

09:00 → 11:00 Plenary Sessions

09:00 Item 9. Discussion on the recommendations of the Working Group on the Evaluation Framework of the IARC Medium-Term Strategy (MTS) 2021–2025 and its Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (all)

09:30 Item 10. Discussion on the COVID-19 and cancer initiative: a building back better proposal (IARC-C19) (all)

10:30 Item 11. Scientific Council membership of 2023 Review Panel [Nutrition and Metabolism (NME) Branch, Head: Dr Marc Gunter] (all)

10:45 Item 12. Scientific Council’s recommendations following poster review (all)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break

11:30 → 12:30 Plenary Sessions

11:30 Item 13. Biennial Report on IARC education and training activities (all)

Speaker: Anouk Berger (IARC)

12:00 Item 14. Update on the “Nouveau Centre” and on resource mobilization (all)

Speakers: Clement Chauvet (IARC), Elisabeth Françon (IARC)

12:30 → 13:00 Wrap up

12:30 Item 15. Review the day’s report and agree on recommendations (SC + DIR/ note takers/DOC)

Friday, 11 February

09:00 → 10:40 Closed Sessions

09:00 Item 16. Scientific Report of the Cancer Surveillance (CSU) Branch Review; Branch Head’s response; DIR’s response and discussion (SC + DIR/DIR-PO/DOC/ CSU Branch and Deputy Heads only)

Speakers: Freddie Bray (IARC), Isabelle Soerjomataram (IARC)

09:30 Item 17. Finalization/endorsement by SC of CSU Review Report (SC only)

09:50 Item 18. Scientific Report of the Environment and Lifestyle Epidemiology (ENV) Branch Review; Branch Head’s response; DIR’s response and discussion (SC + DIR/ DIR-PO/DOC/ENV Branch and Deputy Heads only)

Speakers: Joachim Schuz (IARC), Valerie McCormack

10:20 Item 19. Finalization/endorsement by SC of ENV Review Report (SC only)

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee/Tea Break

11:10 → 13:10 Closed Sessions

11:10 Item 20. Drafting of Scientific Council Report (SC only)

12:10 Item 21. Draft SC Report given to DIR and DAF

12:40 Item 22. Presentation of Report to the Director only, plus discussion on issues arising (SC + DIR/DAF)

13:10 → 13:50 Plenary Sessions

13:10 Item 23. Election of Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson for the 59th Session of the Scientific Council in 2023 (all)

13:15 Item 24. Date of next Session (all)

13:20 Item 25. Adoption of the Scientific Council Report (all)

13:45 Item 26. Closure of Session (all)