Gonçalo Forjaz de Lacerda

Gonçalo Forjaz is a Principal Research Associate with more than 15 years of experience in the areas of cancer registration and descriptive epidemiology. As a contractor for the Surveillance Research Program (SRP), Gonçalo works on several projects covering crucial SRP mission areas, including Cancer PathCHART, the National Childhood Cancer Registry, and the International Childhood Cancer Data Partnership. Related to work conducted by NCI's Center for Global Health, Gonçalo also provides technical support and expertise to develop the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)'s Caribbean Hub.

Before moving to the United States in 2016, Gonçalo coordinated the Azores Cancer Registry for ten years, having dedicated himself full-time to developing the Registry and collecting data to attain high-quality, comparable data. The Registry's results have been included in the last three volumes of IARC's Cancer Incidence in Five Continents. Gonçalo also worked as a consultant for the African Cancer Registry Network to establish cancer registries and build capacity in Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde.

Gonçalo is originally from the Azores, Portugal. He received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of Évora, Portugal and his Master of Science degree in Human Oncology from the University of Porto, Portugal. More recently, he earned his Oncology Data Specialist (ODS) credential from the National Cancer Registrars Association, USA.