Professor Stephen Duffy

Biography

Stephen Duffy is a statistician and epidemiologist, educated at Edinburgh University and Imperial College, London. His research is mainly in cancer epidemiology, prevention and screening, including work on the pioneering Swedish two-county trial of mammography. Since then he has taken a major role in a number of other trials of cancer screening, in breast, colorectal and lung cancer.

Stephen is Professor of Cancer Screening at Queen Mary University of London and director of the Policy Research Unit in Cancer Awareness, Screening and Early Diagnosis, funded by the Department of Health and Social Care. The unit carries out research to inform policy to promote earlier diagnosis of cancer, symptomatically or by screening, and reduce mortality. His personal research focuses on interventions to make cancer screening more accessible and acceptable to all sectors of the population.