Prof. Dr. med. Julia Bohlius, MD MScPH
Julia Bohlius is the Head of Department for Education and Training and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) and Professor of Cancer Epidemiology at the University of Basel. She is a trained physician and holds an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygience and Tropical Medicine, UK. Julia has clinical research experience from the Univeristy of Cologne, Germany, as well as Public Health and Epidemiology from the Univeristy of Bern, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, where she led the Cancer Research Group for several years. Her research, teaching and training interests span from assessing the burden of cancer in populations living with HIV at global scale to improving quality and access to health care for women at high risk for cervical cancer to critically assess and synthesize the evidence and clinical guideline development for interventions in oncology. For her research she was awarded with a Ambizione-PROSPER grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Robert Wenner Prize of the Swiss Cancer League.
Latest Publications
Asangbeh-Kerman S.L et al. Cervical cancer prevention and care in HIV clinics across sub-Saharan Africa: results of a facility-based survey. J Int AIDS Soc. 2024;27(7):e26303. DOI: 10.1002/jia2.26303
Bürkin B.M et al. Competencies for transformational leadership in public health: an international Delphi consensus study. Int J Public Health. 2024;69:1606267. DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2024.1606267
Davidović M et al. Facility-based indicators to manage and scale up cervical cancer prevention and care services for women living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a three-round online Delphi consensus method. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2024;95(2):170-178. DOI: 10.1097/qai.0000000000003343
Davidović M, Dhokotera T, Dos-Santos-Silva I, Bohlius J, Sengayi-Muchengeti M. Breast cancer in women by HIV status: a report from the South African National Cancer Registry. PLoS One. 2024;19(6):e0305274. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305274
Dhokotera T.G et al. Gynaecologic and breast cancers in women living with HIV in South Africa: a record linkage study. Int J Cancer. 2024;154(2):284-296. DOI: 10.1002/ijc.34712
Engels E.A et al. State of the science and future directions for research on HIV and cancer: summary of a joint workshop sponsored by IARC and NCI. Int J Cancer. 2024;154(4):596-606. DOI: 10.1002/ijc.34727
Olago V et al. Cancer diagnostic service use in people living with HIV in South Africa: a cross-sectional study. PLoS One. 2024;19(6):e0291897. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0291897
Ruffieux Y et al. HIV-1 viremia and cancer risk in 2.8 million people: the South African HIV cancer match study. Clin Infect Dis. 2024(in press). DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciae652
Taghavi K et al. Accuracy of screening tests for cervical precancer in women living with HIV in low-resource settings: a paired prospective study in Lusaka, Zambia. BMJ Oncology. 2024;3:e000111. DOI: 10.1136/bmjonc-2023-000111
Chipanta D et al. Socioeconomic inequalities in cervical precancer screening among women in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe: analysis of population-based HIV impact assessment surveys. BMJ Open. 2023;13(6):e067948. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067948