Philippe Autier

Philippe Autier Biography

Philippe Autier is a famous Epidemiologist, who was born on December 29, 1956 in Belgium. Philippe Autier (born 29 December 1956) is a Belgian epidemiologist. He is doing research on cancer, where he contributed to the understanding of the role of UV exposure in cancer development. According to Astrologers, Philippe Autier's zodiac sign is Aquarius.

In 2000 Autier was invited to work for the European Commission, DG Sanco, and at the Luxembourg Institute for Health, located at the Centre de Recherche Publique Santé (CRP-Santé), where he was head of the centre for epidemiology and statistics until 2003. He returned to the Institut Jules Bordet for two more years and finally moved to Lyon, France, to join the International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC, as Head of the Unit of Prevention Evaluation(former Epidemiology Methods and Support Group) and Cluster Coordinator of the Biostatistics and Epidemiology Cluster until 2009.

In 1988 he received a Fulbright fellowship with a grant from the Frank Boas Foundation to study at Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was awarded a M.P.H. Going back to Europe in 1989, Autier joined Institut Jules Bordet, an oncology centre in Brussels, as head of the Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, and the Oeuvre Belge du Cancer, an agency active in cancer prevention. Eventually he became coordinator of the Brussels Breast Cancer Screening Programme implemented by the three universities operating in the Brussels area.

During 2009 Autier moved to the International Prevention Research Institute, to take over the post of a research director.