Dr Eva Steliarova-Foucher is a scientist at the Cancer Surveillance Branch of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of WHO and a leader of the IARC Research team Childhood Cancer Awareness and Research Evidence (CCARE).

She studied mathematics and biology at the Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia (RNDr 1986) and medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK (MSc 1989). She completed her doctoral studies in the Institute of Oncology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (PhD 1994). She had worked at the Slovak National Cancer Registry from 1985 prior to joining IARC in 1994.

At IARC, she was mainly involved in epidemiological research of childhood cancer, while she had also coordinated international consortia of cancer registries. Currently, she leads several international studies of childhood cancer burden, including International Incidence of Childhood Cancer (IICC), Cancer risk in childhood cancer survivors: understanding the causes to target prevention (CRICCS), Targeting Childhood Cancer through the Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development (ChildGICR) and the International Classification of Childhood Cancer (ICCC).