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Mary Schubauer-Berigan is head of the Evidence Synthesis and Classification Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
Brief Bio:
Mary Schubauer-Berigan, PhD, MS, FACE is head of the Evidence Synthesis and Classification Branch of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), where she leads the IARC Monographs programme, an essential programme for cancer prevention worldwide. Her scientific and technical staff organize systematic evaluations of epidemiologic, experimental, and mechanistic evidence to identify the preventable causes of human cancer. At IARC, Mary has co-led the update of the methodologies (Preamble) for the Monographs and has led monographs on night shift work, opium consumption, and occupational exposure as a firefighter. She recently co-edited an IARC Scientific Publication on bias assessment in case-control and cohort studies for cancer hazard identification.
Before joining IARC, Mary worked for two decades as an epidemiologist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Cincinnati, OH, USA. At NIOSH, she led multidisciplinary teams conducting epidemiology studies of the health effects of occupational exposures to beryllium, carbon nanotubes, nuclear work, radon, cosmic radiation, and circadian disruption. Her research on lung cancer from beryllium exposure in workers was used by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration in setting a more protective occupational exposure limit for beryllium. She also developed and applied statistical models used in compensating claimants for the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program for radiogenic cancers. Mary has published more than 170 journal articles and book chapters on the above topics. She has a PhD in Epidemiology from the Medical University of South Carolina and a MS degree in Biology from the University of Minnesota.
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