Pip Youl

Qualifications: RN, MPH

Job title: Executive Manager, Research

Email: PipYoul@cancerqld.org.au 

Background: Pip Youl is the Executive Manager of Research at the Cancer Council Queensland. She has a background in clinical oncology and has worked in the cancer epidemiology field for the past 20 years. Pip is involved in the conception, design and analysis of a number of research projects both internally and with external research partners.

Research interests: Pip has a strong interest in skin cancer, skin screening and early detection and in cancer aetiology.

Current research projects:

• Melanoma diagnosis and skin screening in Queensland
• Investigating the utility of primary care skin cancer clinics in Queensland
• Long-term melanoma survivors study
• Managing skin cancer in the primary care setting
• Knowledge about, and attitudes towards, vitamin D and consequences for sun protective behaviour amongst the Queensland population.
• An investigation of the increasing incidence of thyroid cancer in Queensland: a registry-based study