My research is focused on elucidating the link between dietary intake and cancer risk and progression.  The work concentrates on four main areas: (1) Analysis of dietary intake data within large cohorts and randomised controlled trials (2) Development of interventions to promote long term behaviour change (3) Human nutrition intervention studies with whole foods and whole diets examining clinically relevant endpoints (3) Developing  evidence based guidelines through systematic reviews and meta-analyses of dietary intake and cancer risk and progression (4) Collaboration with NI Biobank to examine the relationship between nutrition/obesity related molecular markers in tumour tissue and cancer progression.  

Achievements and Distinctions 

• National Cancer Institute, Cancer Prevention Fellow 2002-2005

• National Cancer Institute Visiting Fellow 2001-2002

• World Cancer Research Fund award

Grant Review

• Cancer Research UK Population Sciences Committee Epidemiology Grant reviewer 2015 to date
• Horizon 2020 grant reviewer 2014
• Horizon 2020 grant reviewer 2016

 Membership

Working group member of the National Cancer Institute Barrett’s and Eesophageal Adenocarcinoma Consortium (BEACON)

UK Biobank Endeometrial Cancer working group member

International Agency for Research on Cancer working group member for monograph 114, Carcinogenicity of red and processed meat.

NIHR working group member Nutrition and Cancer Infrastructure collaboration

Dissertation supervisor

PhD; Masters in Public Health;

Undergraduate teaching

Alu2008 Diet and Health:  Use of photographs and food frequency questionnaires to measure heterocyclic amines  (practical), bone health (lecture), vegetarianism (lecture), diet, salt and hypertension (lecture), healthy eating and food shopping (lecture), dental health and diet (lecture). 

• Module co-ordinator, Student Selected Component Nutrition and Cancer, 3rd year Medical, September 2007 to date.
• Module coordinator- tutorials and assignment - Concepts in People and Populations MED2015, March 2010 to date

Postgraduate Teaching

• Lecturer Master's of Science in Public Health September 2008 to date
• Lecturer Masters Global Health 2014
• Lecturer Masters Translational Medicine 2014
• Developed and taught a 2-day Introduction to Stata course, 2007-2012, this course is now available through the Staff training and Development Unit.
• Nutrition Epidemiology workshop- University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur - Feb 2011