Anssi Auvinen MD PhD received his MD (1989) and PhD in epidemiology (1997) from the University of Tampere, Finland. He has worked as a research scientist at the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority and the Finnish Cancer Registry and was a visiting scientist at the National Cancer Institute in the United States. He is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Tampere. His main research interests include cancer screening and the health effects of radiation. He is the principal investigator of the Finnish randomized trial on prostate cancer screening and is one of the coordinators of the European Randomized Study of Prostate Cancer Screening (ERSPC). He has published about.
