This page will need some updating but the general idea is still correct.
In july 1989 I started with my present job at the medical faculty of the university of Rotterdam. There I am mainly working on projects for the evaluation of cancer screening of the population. I find it a fascinating field of research, where I am glad that don't have go after collecting data myself, but do a lot of work on trying to interpret them the right way. And the department of Public Health and the colleagues I have are very good and nice to work with. I am primarily working with computer simulation models which we use for evaluation of early detection of cancer and besides that do some statistical and methodological work.
I am currently working on evaluation of screening for four different cancers of the cervix, breast, prostate and colorectal tract.
The work involves some travel, which I don't particularly like, but what I do like is to meet people in real life I have met earlier over internet, in case you are interested in that, I will try to keep up here with my current travel plans.
In case you got interested in seeing some more about things related to what I am working on, here are some sites I have actually used or thought might use in future. I can now proudly start with a reference to the site of the department where I work which has been up since the end of 1997 (just before I wrote this).
our department of Public Health iMGZ
But maybe you are more intersted to know more about what this job is about. Well, I don't know of a general introduction to public health research, but there is a nice one on epidemiology which is closely related discipline, and this site even gives some explanation about screening evaluation.
The British Medical Journal site on epidemiology
There are some other sites which you might find interesting:
National (USA that is) Cancer Institute
SEER (about cancer incidence and mortality in several US regions)