Claudia Allemani

Dr Claudia Allemani is an Associate Professor of Cancer Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Claudia’s academic background in Italy covers the range from applied mathematics (MSc 1996), epidemiology and medical statistics (MSc 1998 and PhD-equivalent 2001), to public health and education (PhD 2006). She was elected a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (2012), and an Honorary Member of the UK Faculty of Public Health (2014). She was awarded the Faculty’s inaugural Global Public Health Award in June 2016. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles, and co-authored 80 more as a Working Group member. She has written 9 book chapters, manuals and reports. Her research has been cited over 11,000 times (h-index 47, i-10 index 73; Google Scholar). She collaborates with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and with several other international agencies focused on cancer control, including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the French National Cancer Institute (INCa), as well as the European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC). She has recently contributed to the Digestive Cancers Europe task force to establish a “Roadmap for Colorectal Cancer in Europe”.