Meg Watson, MPH
Meg Watson, MPH, has been an epidemiologist in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control's Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch since 2006. Her research focuses primarily on issues related to skin cancer and human papillomavirus (HPV) associated cancers.
Ms. Watson was hired originally as a fellow and worked under the guidance of Dr. Mona Saraiya to produce a special supplement edition of the journal Cancer, titled "Assessing the Burden of HPV-Associated Cancers in the U.S." More recently, she led the production and publication of a special supplement edition of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology examining melanoma in the United States, which will be published in 2011. In addition to these large projects, she has conducted several additional analyses and projects, primarily using cancer surveillance data.
The most recent articles Ms. Watson has first-authored include—
- 2011 Melanoma surveillance in the United States: Overview of methods.
- 2009 Update of HPV-associated female genital cancers in the United States, 1999–2004.
- 2008 Burden of cervical cancer in the United States, 1998–2003.
- 2008 Using population-based cancer registry data to assess the burden of human papillomavirus-associated cancers in the United States: overview of methods.
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