Cancer Data For Good

Dr Thomas Kehoe is a modern historian and since 2020, has headed the Heritage Project at Cancer Council Victoria. In this role, he works with other scholars, museums, and archives to reveal the long and challenging history of cancer control in Victoria and its impact on modern health. Prior to joining the Council, he was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of New England and taught modern history, politics, and criminology at the University of Melbourne, the Australian Catholic University, and Swinburne University of Technology (Australia).

• 1. Cancer Registration: A Neglected History.- 2. A Thirst for Data: Establishing the Victorian Cancer Registry, 1936-1945.- 3.Post-War Recovery, Expansion, and Technological Advancement, 1945-1968.- 4. The “Gray” Years: Technological Advancement and Legislative Change, 1968-1981.- 5.New possibilities: The VCR as a population-based registry, 1981-1990.- 6. The VCR as a Tool for Population Research and Intervention, 1991-2010.- 7. Towards the future: New leadership and state of the art technology, 2011-2019.