Keren Papier

Keren Papier is a nutritional epidemiologist whose research examines the role of diet in the development of non-communicable diseases, particularly gastro-intestinal and metabolic health, and cancer. Her work involves using cohort study methodology to assess dietary intake and quantify its impact on health.

Based at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU), Keren leads a programme of research on the long-term health impacts of plant-based diets funded by Oxford Population Health. She is the Principal Investigator for the Feeding the Future Study (FEED), and is a Co-Investigator on the MRC funded Longitudinal Population Study grant EPIC-Oxford: Benefits and risks of plant-based diets.

Keren also has a key interest in the role of nutritional status and circulating biomarkers, including blood proteins, in the development of non-communicable diseases, and is a co-Principal Investigator of the WCRF funded grant ProMap: Mapping diet to cancer through the proteome.

Keren is a member of the EPIC-Oxford Steering Committee, leads nutritional research in the Million Women Study, and is Module Lead for the Non-Communicable Diseases module as part of the MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology.

Before joining the CEU, Keren received her PhD in Epidemiology from the Australian National University, for which she assessed the incidence and risk factors of emerging type 2 diabetes mellitus in Thailand. Her international research settings include: Thailand, Philippines, Australia, and the UK.