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Dr. Eduardo Franco has been with McGill University in Montreal, Canada, since 1990, where he is James McGill Professor of Epidemiology and Oncology and Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology. He holds a BSc in biology from Universidade de Campinas, Brazil (1975), and MPH (1982) and DrPH (1984) degrees in public health microbiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He was a Guest Researcher at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta (1980-84), and a post-doctoral fellow in cancer epidemiology at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, at the U.S. National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, and at Louisiana State University (1984). Professor Franco's research during the last 23 years has focused mainly on the molecular epidemiology and prevention of cervical cancer, upper aero-digestive tract cancers, and childhood tumours, and the development of epidemiologic methods for evaluating efficacy of screening strategies. He published over 260 scientific articles, 48 chapters, and two books on cancer epidemiology and prevention. He has served in the editorial boards of the American Journal of Epidemiology, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, Epidemiology, Medical and Pediatric Oncology, Cancer Detection and Prevention, PLoS-Medicine, and Oral Diseases. He mentored 68 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows since 1985 and, in addition to his regular teaching at McGill, he has taught several cancer epidemiology courses in the US, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. His recent awards include: the Distinguished Services Award of the EUROGIN Society (2006), the National Cancer Institute of Canada’s O. Harold Warwick Prize in cancer control research of 2004, James McGill Chair (equivalent to a Canada Research Chair tier I) (2002), the Medical Research Council of Canada’s Distinguished Scientist Award (2000), Educational Excellence at McGill University (2000), and twice Montreal's "Ambassadeur" (2000, 2007). |
