Donna Turner, PhD

Accepting graduate students

• Masters – yes
• PhD – yes

Research themes

Cancer

Research interests

• cancer: surveillance, etiology, prevention, screening, outcomes
• health services research
• population health

Research affiliations

Researcher, Research Institute of Oncology and Hematology (RIOH) at CancerCare Manitoba

Research groups

• Canadian Cancer Society - Publication Committee, member
• Canadian Council of Cancer Registries, member
• International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR). Regional Representative for North America
• Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute of Cancer Research Advisory Board, member
• Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) System Performance Working Group, member
• North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, member
• CanPath (Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health) Cohort Consortium, member

Research summary

Dr. Turner’s research interests revolve around the use of population-based cancer data as a means of informing cancer control activities. She works in various aspects of cancer control research, from prevention/etiology to early detection to diagnosis/treatment to outcomes, using the population-based data resources of the provincial health department and the cancer agency in Manitoba. As an epidemiologist, she has conducted cancer epidemiology projects based on the provincial cancer registry and linked administrative databases. Her primary research focus involves population-based health services research in cancer.