Valerie Beral

Dame
Valerie Beral
AC DBE FRS FRCOG MRCP
Born(1946-07-28)28 July 1946[1]
Sydney, Australia
Died26 August 2022(2022-08-26) (aged 76)
NationalityAustralian, British
Alma mater
Known forBreast cancer epidemiology[2][3]
SpouseProfessor Paul Fine[1]
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsEpidemiology
Cancer Epidemiology
Breast cancer
Women's health
Institutions
Valerie Beral's voice
from the BBC programme The Life Scientific (BBC Radio 4), 2 Feb 2013[4]
Websitewww.ndph.ox.ac.uk/team/valerie-beral

Dame Valerie Beral AC DBE FRS FRCOG FMedSci (28 July 1946 – 26 August 2022) was an Australian-born British epidemiologist, academic and a preeminent specialist in breast cancer epidemiology. She was Professor of Epidemiology,[5] a Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford and was the Head of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford and Cancer Research UK from 1989.[3][6][7]

  1. ^ a b "BERAL, Dame Valerie". Who's Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc; online edn, Oxford University Press. 2013.
  2. ^ Peto, R.; Boreham, J.; Clarke, M.; Davies, C.; Beral, V. (2000). "UK and USA breast cancer deaths down 25% in year 2000 at ages 20–69 years". The Lancet. 355 (9217): 1822. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02277-7. PMID 10832853. S2CID 28193462.
  3. ^ a b "Jim Al-Khalili talks to breast cancer pioneer Valerie Beral about her Million Women study and why she thinks a so-called 'vaccine' should be developed to prevent breast cancer". Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  4. ^ "Valerie Beral". Life Scientific. 2 February 2013. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  5. ^ [1] Archived 20 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Valerie Beral publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
  7. ^ "Valerie Beral". Google Scholar. Retrieved 19 August 2015.