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Ms Hélène De Pauw MPH
Scientist
Hélène De Pauw is a Research Scientist at Sciensano.
Hélène graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (HENALLUX, 2014, cum laude) and a Master’s degree in Science of Public Health (UCLouvain, 2017, cum laude).
She works for Sciensano since October 2017. She first integrated the Unit of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance (NSIH), where she analysed the National Hand Hygiene campaign project for Belgium (project funded by the Belgian Antibiotic Policy Coordination Committee (BAPCOC)) and Luxembourg. She was also involved in the management of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs) outbreaks in healthcare settings as Outbreak Support Team (OST) member.
Since 2019, she works in the Unit Cancer Epidemiology, which is part of the Belgian Cancer Centre. Her research activities focus on cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination. She is currently working on the PERCH (Partnership to Contrast HPV) project. The overall aim of this project is to contribute to the implementation of the European Plan to beat cancer, which seeks to support Member States’ actions to strengthen routine HPV vaccination in order to eliminate cervical cancer and other cancers caused by HPV over the next decade.
Hélène is a Board member of the CCR (Centre Communautaire de Référence pour le dépistage des cancers) which is an accredited non-profit organisation responsible for managing breast and colorectal cancer screening programmes in Wallonia. She also represents Sciensano in Belgian association, such as BRUPREV, which is an association in charge of organising cancer screening and prevention in the Brussels Region.
Hélène is also investigating, through various international projects, the use of self-sampling in an organised cervical cancer screening programme.
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