Eduardo Franco
President
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Franco is James McGill Professor in the Departments of Oncology and Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, and Chairman, Department of Oncology, at McGill University's Faculty of Medicine, in Montreal, Canada. Formerly, he was a faculty member at the Université du Québec (1989-94) and Senior Researcher and Head of the Epidemiology Unit at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Sao Paulo, Brazil (1985-89).
Research Interest
Professor Franco's research during the last 28 years has focussed on the following topics: molecular epidemiology and prevention of cervical cancer and human papillomavirus-associated diseases, cancers of the upper aero-digestive tract, prostate, endometrium, and childhood tumours; studies of epidemiologic methods for evaluating efficacy of cancer screening strategies; the impact of measurement error in epidemiology; and studies of societal and clinical influences on cancer patient survival. Much of his research has been international, with collaborative projects in Canada, Brazil, the Congo Republic, United States, and with the International Agency for Research on Cancer, in France.