Cohort Consortium Membership
Membership Guidelines
- Defined epidemiologic cohort:
- Minimum of 10,000 participants
- Cancer occurrence accurately assessed
- Some risk factor data
- Commitment to scientific collaboration:
- Willing to contribute data
- Voluntary membership
- Voluntary participation in any specific consortium project
If interested in joining the Cohort Consortium, contact Chinonye (Nonye) Harvey, M.P.H.
Current Members
The Cohort Consortium membership is international in scope. It includes investigators responsible for more than 40 high-quality cohorts who are studying large and diverse populations in more than 15 different countries.
The dark green regions on the map below represent the locations of populations that Cohort Consortium members are currently studying. Move the mouse over specific countries on the map to see the names of the cohorts under study in the geographic area, or refer to the table below.
You may click on the table headers to sort the participating cohort studies alphabetically, by location, or by the year participants were first enrolled.
| Study Name |
Country or
Countries
of Study
Population |
Year
Enrollment
Began |
| Agricultural Health Study |
US |
1993 |
| Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention (ATBC) Study |
Finland |
1985 |
| Black Women's Health Study (BWHS) |
US |
1995 |
| Breakthrough Generations Study |
UK |
2003 |
| Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project (BCDDP) Follow-Up Study |
US |
1980 |
| British Columbia Generations Project |
Canada |
2008 |
| California Teachers Study (CTS) |
US |
1995 |
| Canadian Study of Diet, Lifestyle, and Health |
Canada |
1992 |
| Cancer Prevention Studies (CPS I, CPS II, & CPS II Nutrition Cohort) |
US |
1959 (CPS I)
1982 (CPS II)
1992 (CPS II Nutrition Cohort) |
| Carotene and Retinol Efficacy Trial (CARET) |
US |
1985 |
| CLUE I & II |
US |
1974 (CLUE I)
1989 (CLUE II) |
| Cohort of Swedish Men |
Sweden |
1997 |
| CONOR Cohort: General Cohort of Adults in Norway |
Norway |
1993 |
| European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) |
Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UK |
1992 |
| Golestan Cohort Study (GCS) |
Iran |
2004 |
| Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS) |
US |
1986 |
| Iowa Women's Health Study |
US |
1986 |
| Janus Serum Bank |
Norway |
1972 |
| Mayo Mammography Health Study |
US |
2003 |
| Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study |
Australia |
1990 (baseline)
2001 (biorepository) |
| The Millennium Cohort Study |
US |
2001 |
| Multiethnic Cohort Study of Diet and Cancer (MEC) |
US |
1993 |
| NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study |
US |
1995 |
| Netherlands Cohort Study (NLCS) |
Netherlands |
1986 |
| Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study |
Sweden |
1985 |
| Nurses' Health Study I (NHS I) |
US |
1976 |
| Nurses' Health Study II (NHS II) |
US |
1989 |
| Nutrition Intervention Trials - Linxian |
China |
1984 |
| NYU Women's Health Study |
US |
1985 |
| Ontario Health Study |
Canada |
2010 |
| Physicians' Health Study (PHS) I & II |
US |
1982 (PHS I)
1997 (PHS II) |
| Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial |
US |
1993 |
| RERF Life Span Study, Adult Health Study, and F1 Cohorts (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) |
Japan |
1950 (main cohort)
1958 (clinical sub-sample)
2002 (children of survivors) |
| Seventh-day Adventist Cohort Study |
US |
2002 |
| Shanghai Cohort Study |
China |
1986 |
| Shanghai Men's Health Study (SMHS) |
China |
2001 |
| Shanghai Women's Health Study (SWHS) |
China |
1996 |
| Singapore Chinese Health Study |
Singapore |
1993 |
| Sister Study |
US |
2003 |
| Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS) |
US |
2002 |
| Swedish Mammography Cohort (SMC) |
Sweden |
1987 |
| U.S. Radiologic Technologists (USRT) Cohort |
US |
1982 |
| Vitamins and Lifestyle (VITAL) Study |
US |
2000 |
| Women's Health Initiative (WHI) |
US |
1993 |
| Women's Health Study (WHS) |
US |
1992 |
| Women's Lifestyle and Health Study (WLHS) |
Norway, Sweden |
1991, 2003 |
