Joanna Didkowska PhD works in the Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Registry at the Maria Sklodowska Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, Poland. Since 1999, she has been Chair of the Association of Cancer Registries in Poland. She focuses on descriptive cancer epidemiology in Poland, especially prediction models, and the determinants of the health status of Poles and inhabitants of central and eastern Europe. She works on analyses of data from the National Cancer Registry. She has authored over 50 publications (including 6 books) and is co-author and editor of the annual report Cancer in Poland. .