Professor Joanne Aitken is Director of Research at Cancer Council Queensland, Director of the Australian Childhood Cancer Registry, a Ministerial appointee to the Advisory Council of Cancer Australia, and President and Chair of the Board of the International Association of Cancer Registries. 

She is a cancer epidemiologist with a special interest in the epidemiology of skin cancer and cancer in children and she is actively involved in national and international cancer surveillance practice and policy. Her work has been cited over 16,000 times in the scientific literature.