Professor Dame Valerie Beral

Biography

Valerie was Professor of Epidemiology at University of Oxford and the principal investigator for the Million Women Study. She led international collaborations on breast, ovarian and endometrial cancer.

She studied medicine at Sydney University, Australia and practiced in Australia, New Guinea and the UK. She spent almost 20 years at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine working in the Department of Epidemiology. In 1988 she became the Director of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit in Oxford.