Rate My Professor Naomi Allen

Professor Naomi Allen is a Professor in Epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, based in the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit. She holds BSc, MSc and DPhil degrees. She joined UK Biobank as Senior Epidemiologist in 2011 and became Chief Scientist in 2019, where she is responsible for following up participants through linkage with routine health-related datasets and web-based questionnaires, and contributes to developing the scientific strategy for future enhancements of the study.

Her research interests focus on the role of diet, obesity and circulating biomarkers in cancer development. She is co-Principal Investigator of the Endogenous Hormones, Nutritional Biomarkers and Prostate Cancer Collaborative Group, which conducts individual pooled analyses of the relationship between circulating biomarkers and prostate cancer risk from cohort studies worldwide.