Mary Schubauer-Berigan 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. Mary 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, where 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. She also developed and applied statistical models used in compensating claimants for the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program for radiogenic cancers.