MONICA Manual, Part I

Appendix 1. MONICA Centres, sites and responsible persons

MONICA Collaborating Centres
Country Name Code Principal Investigator(s) and site(s)
Australia Perth 10 M.S.T. Hobbs, K. Jamrozik
University of Western Australia, Nedlands
Newcastle 11 A. Dobson, P. McElduff (Co-PI)
University of Newcastle, Newcastle
Belgium Ghent/Charleroi 12 G. de Backer
Ghent State University, Ghent
M. Kornitzer
Free University of Brussels, Brussels
MONICA-Bellux 14 M. Jeanjean
Interuniversity Association for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases, Brussels
Canada Halifax 15 H.K. Wolf, R.D. Gregor
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
China Sino-MONICA-Beijing 17 Wu Zhaosu
Beijing Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Research Institute, Beijing
Czech Republic Czech-MONICA 18 Z. Skodová
Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague
Denmark DAN-MONICA 19 T. Jřrgensen, M. Schroll (Co-PI)
Centre for Preventive Medicine (The Glostrup Population Studies), Copenhagen University
Finland FINMONICA 20 J. Tuomilehto
National Public Health Institute, Helsinki
France MONICA Strasbourg 54 P. Schaffer, D. Arveiler
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health - Faculty of Medicine, Strasbourg
MONICA Toulouse 55 J. Ferričres, J.B. Ruidavets (Co-PI)
Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine Toulouse-Purpan, Toulouse
MONICA Lille 59 P. Amouyel, M. Montaye-Faivre
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Pasteur Institute of Lille
Germany MONICA East Germany 23 W. Barth, L. Heinemann (Co-PI)
Centre for Epidemiology & Health Research, Berlin
Bremen 24 I. Pigeot-Kübler
Bremer Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine, Bremen
Augsburg 26 U. Keil
GSF-Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg/Munich
Iceland Iceland 28 U. Agnarsson, J. Gunnlaugsdóttir (Co-PI)
Heart Preventive Clinic, Reykjavik
Italy MONICA-Friuli 32 D. Vanuzzo, L Pilotto (Co-PI)
Centre for Cardiovascular Prevention, ASS4 "Medio Friuli", Udine
Area Brianza 57 G.C. Cesana, M. Ferrario
University of Milan - Bicocca, Monza
Lithuania Kaunas 45 A. Tamosiunas, S. Domarkiene (Co-PI, population surveys), D. Rastenyte (Co-PI, event registration)
Kaunas Medical Academy Institute of Cardiology, Kaunas
New Zealand Auckland 33 R. Beaglehole
University of Auckland, Auckland
Poland POL-MONICA-Krakow 35 A. Pajak
Unit of Clinical Epidemiology and Population Studies, School of Public Health, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
POL-MONICA-Warsaw 36 S. L. Rywik, G. Broda (Co-PI)
National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Department of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Prevention
Russian Federation Moscow 46 V. Konstantinov, S. Shalnova (Co-PI), A. Deev (Co-PI)
State Research Centre for Preventive Medicine, Moscow
Siberian MONICA 47 Yu. P. Nikitin
Institute of Internal Medicine, Novosibirsk
Spain MONICA-Catalonia 39 S. Sans
Institute of Health Studies, Department of Health and Social Security, Barcelona
Sweden GOT-MONICA 40 L. Wilhelmsen
Göteborg University, The Cardiovascular Institute, Section of Preventive Cardiology, Göteborg
Northern Sweden 60 M. Eriksson
Umeĺ University Hospital, Department of Medicine, Umeĺ
M. Eliasson
Sunderby Hospital, Luleĺ
Switzerland MONICA-Switzerland 50 F. Gutzwiller
University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne
United Kingdom Belfast 34 A. Evans
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Scottish MONICA 37 H. Tunstall-Pedoe
University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
C. Morrison (Co-PI)
Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland
USA Stanford 43 S.P. Fortmann
Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, Stanford, California
Yugoslavia Novi Sad 49 D. Benc
Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases, Novi Sad

 

MONICA Country Coordinators
Country Code Responsible person and site
France 22 P. Ducimetičre
National Institute of Health and Medical Research (U258), Paris
Italy 09 S. Giampaoli
National Institute of Health, Rome

 

MONICA Management Centre
Code Responsible person and site
01 S. Mendis
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

 

MONICA Data Centre
Code Responsible person and site
02 K. Kuulasmaa
National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland

 

MONICA Quality Control Centres
Name Code Responsible person and site
MONICA Quality Control Centre for Lipid Measurements 03 R. Poledne, D. Grafnetter
Laboratory for Atherosclerosis Research at IKEM, Prague
MONICA Quality Control Centre for ECG Coding 04 Responsible Department: Epidemiological & Methodological Deptartment, Hungarian Institute of Cardiology, Budapest, Hungary
MONICA Quality Control Centre for Event Registration 05 H. Tunstall-Pedoe
University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
MONICA Quality Control Centre for Health Services Monitoring 06 M.S.T. Hobbs
University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, Australia

 

MONICA Reference Centres
Name Code Responsible person and site
MONICA Reference Centre for Dietary Methods 91 D. Kromhout
National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection, Bilthoven, Netherlands
MONICA Reference Centre for Antioxidant Vitamins and PUFAs 95 F. Gey
Vitamin Unit, Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Current contact person: A. Evans, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

MONICA Reference Centre for Drug Classification 94 E. Greiser
Bremer Institute for Prevention for Prevention Research and Social Medicine, Bremen, Germany
MONICA Reference Centre for Psychosocial Assessment 92 A. Shatchkute
WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark
U. Härtel
Data Centre for MONICA Psychosocial Substudy: GSF-Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg-Munich, Germany
MONICA Reference Centre for Physical Activity 93 Deborah Jones
Cardiovascular Health Branch, Health Education Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga, USA
MONICA Reference Centre for Haemostatic Factors and CHD 97 J. Yarnell,
Division of Epidemiology, The Queens University of Belfast, Belfast, UK

 

MONICA Associate Collaborating Centres
Name (if any) Code Responsible person and site
Heidelberg 25 E. Nüssel
Department of Clinical and Social Medicine of the University Medical Clinic, Heidelberg
HUN-MONICA 27 J. Duba
Hungarian Institute of Cardiology, Budapest
Israel-MONICA 30 D. Brunner
Tel-Aviv University, Holon
Area Latina 31 G. Righetti
S.M. Goretti Hospital, Latina
Malta 52 Chief Government Medical Officer
Department of Health, Valletta, Malta
ROM-MONICA-Bucharest 53 C. Carp
Medical Institute, Fundeni Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
Japan MONICA 58 S. Hatano, I. Shigematsu
Association for Cerebro-cardiovascular Disease Control, Tokyo, Japan
    Millicent Higgins
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    A. Hofman
Epidemiology Department of Erasmus University Medical School, Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Tao Shou-chi
Cardiovascular Institute and Fu Wai Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
    J.D. Kark
Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
    K. Kodama
Clinical Studies Department, Radiation Effects Research Institute, Hiroshima, Japan
    A. Wielgosz
University of Ottawa Cardiac Unit, Ottawa, Canada
    E. Shelley
Kilkenny Health Project, Kilkenny, Ireland
    F. Kittel
Tournai Objectif Santé Project, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
    D. R. Labarthe, M.Z. Nichaman
Corpus Christi Heart Project, School of Public Health, Health Science Center, Houston, Texas.
    M. Green
Israel Center for Disease Control, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach-Tikva, Israel
    R. Boedhi Darmojo (Semarang)
National Cardiac Centre, "Harapan Kita" Heart Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia
    E. Sjukrudin
Health Research Unit, Medical School, Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia
    J. Marrugat
Lipids and Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Institut Municipal Investigacio Medica, Barcelona, Spain
    R. Luepker
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

13 October 2009