Faculty and Staff

Co-Investigator:
Jonathan M. Liff, PhD, is Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Heath at Emory. He also serves as Co-Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the Georgia Center for Cancer Surveillance (GCCS), a Center at Emory that tracks cancer rates and outcomes in the State. The GCCS includes the Metropolitan Atlanta and Rural Georgia SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) Program, and the data collection arm of the Georgia Cancer Registry. In addition to his primary interest in cancer surveillance, he also has interests in the epidemiology of breast and prostate cancers, with a focus on racial differences in cancer incidence and survival. He was Principal Investigator of the Georgia component of the Savannah River Region Health Information System, a cancer registry covering Southeast Georgia and Western South Carolina, that was sponsored from 1990-1996 by the U.S. Department of Energy. He has also run a number of large case-control studies of breast, prostate, and other cancers, primarily through contracts to the National Cancer Institute or the National Center for Child Health and Human Development, both at NIH. These interview studies with women and men in Georgia, some who were diagnosed with these diseases and some who were not, have addressed a number of different questions as to why some people are more likely to develop, or to suffer more serious outcomes from these cancers.
 
Dr. Liff also serves as advisor for cancer and mortality follow-up to the World Trade Center Health Registry, a cohort study following over 71,000 residents and workers in New York City who were exposed to high concentrations of dust on and after September 11, 2001.