Tammy Tong

Tammy is a nutritional epidemiologist based at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU). Her research focuses on the health effects of vegetarian and vegan diets and related dietary factors, with a particular focus on cardiovascular disease and bone health.

She leads a programme of work on dietary and blood proteins in the development of age-related diseases related to bone and vascular health, supported by a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship, alongside a broader programme of work on diet and omics, covering proteomics, metabolomics and other biomarkers. Tammy also co-leads the World Cancer Research Fund ProMAP project on diet, proteomics and cancer. Her previous research was supported by an Oxford Population Health Fellowship (2021-2024).

Tammy is a Principal Investigator of the EPIC-Oxford study, and a Steering Committee member of both EPIC-Oxford and EPIC-Europe. She is a Module Lead for the Nutritional Epidemiology module as part of the MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology, and previously a Module Lead for the Principles of Epidemiology module (2022-2025). She is also a Research Fellow at Wolfson College.

Tammy holds a number of external appointments. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), an independent expert committee which advises the UK Government on food, nutrition and related health issues. She is also the co-chair of a Special Interest Group on ‘Plant-based diets and health’ with the UK Nutrition Society. She has held several editorial appointments, including currently as Deputy Editor for the Journal of Nutritional Science and Section Editor for the European Journal of Nutrition.

Tammy joined CEU in 2017. Prior to joining the Department, Tammy received her PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the University of Cambridge. She also holds a BSc in Human Sciences (University College London) and an MPhil in Epidemiology (University of Cambridge).