Hi there! For the coming weeks, our blog will be dedicated to our Young SIOP Award winners!
Please meet Christina-Evmorfia Kampitsi, YI from Sweden, in her own words.
I am a doctoral student at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. My research focuses on childhood cancer epidemiology; primarily, I am involved in research projects regarding the risk of childhood cancer in birth defects. By utilizing the long-standing Swedish health data registers, I strive to elucidate which among these birth defects could be predisposing towards childhood cancer— and whether some of them might partly explain the increased cancer risk certain birth characteristics seem to convey. Other work focuses on how parental environmental exposures relate to childhood cancer and birth defects. The overall aim —and connecting thread between my projects— is to increase the understanding of childhood cancer etiology and help identify children at increased risk.
I received my BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics and my MSc in Clinical Nutrition from Harokopio University of Athens; I also hold a MMedSc with a Major in Public Health Sciences from Karolinska Institutet. I have served in the board of the Swedish Network for International Health, a student-led organization aiming to facilitate communication between students, researchers, and professionals in the field of Public Health. I live in Stockholm, Sweden; my hobbies include photography and board games.
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