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Faina Linkov is a Research Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology. Dr. Linkov holds PhD in Epidemiology, MPH in the Community and Behavioral Health Sciences, and Certificate of Advanced Studies in Global Health from the University of Pittsburgh.In the past ten years, Dr. Linkov has been working with Professor Ronald LaPorte in the Global Health Network Supercourse Project www.pitt.edu/~super1. Supercourse is an open access Internet based library of 4200 lectures on public health and prevention with over 58,000 participants in 174 countries. One of the main goals of the Supercourse developers is to close the digital divide and deliver public health education materials to faculty members in the developing world. Dr. Linkov’s research interests include cancer, global health, digital divide, women’s health, and peer review mechanisms. Dr. Linkov's current research activities concentrate on the use of biological tumor markers to detect premalignant changes. She published over 40 peer reviewed papers and chapters on cancer epidemiology and global health. Dr. Linkov served as a peer reviewer for the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Journal of Medical Internet Research, and others.
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