Eduardo L. Franco is Professor of Oncology and Epidemiology, Chairman, Department of Oncology, and Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Since 1985, his research has focused on epidemiology and prevention of gynecologic, anogenital, oral, prostate, and childhood cancers. He mentored 130 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. In addition to his regular McGill teaching, he has taught short courses on cancer epidemiology and scientific publishing throughout the world. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and Senior Editor of eLife. He is Officer of the Order of Canada and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He received the Canadian Cancer Research Alliance’s Distinguished Service to Cancer Research Award; Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology and from the International Papillomavirus Society; the Women in U.S. Government’s Leadership Award; the Canadian Cancer Society’s Warwick Prize; the Geoffrey Howe Outstanding Contribution Award from the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics; University of British Columbia’s Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research; and the McLaughlin-Gallie Award from the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. He is Foreign Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.