Junta editorial

Dr Anton Barchuk is head of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Health Research (I2HR) and associate professor of epidemiology at the European University at St. Petersburg, Head of the Master's Programme in Public Health Sciences at ITMO University and the associate professor at the NN Petrov National Cancer Center in St. Petersburg.

After graduating from St. Petersburg Pavlov Medical University in 2005, Dr. Barchuk started his career at the Petrov Research Institute of Oncology. He completed his training in thoracic surgery and defended his Ph.D. thesis in oncology. His primary interest was lung cancer early detection.

In 2015, Dr. Barchuk started his education and later work in epidemiology at Tampere University, Finland. He got a research position working on the quality of cancer registration and cancer burden assessment. Dr. Barchuk initiated and participated as an editor in the Russian translation of ICD-O-3, published in 2017. Anton Barchuk defended his Ph.D. thesis in epidemiology, “Measuring the burden of cancer in Russia,” at Tampere University in 2023.

In 2021, Dr. Barchuk became the director of the newly established Interdisciplinary Institute for Health Research at the European University at St. Petersburg and led two research projects during the COVID-19 pandemic. The same year, Anton Barchuk started a Master's Programme in Public Health Sciences at ITMO University, St. Petersburg.