Keren Papier

Keren Papier is a nutritional epidemiologist whose research examines the impact of diet on health. Her work at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU) has focused on examining the health impacts of consuming meat and sustainable diets, which vary in their inclusion of meat and other animal-source foods, in large prospective cohort studies. Her research also focuses on assessing dietary intake and nutritional adequacy, with a particular focus on animal-source foods and plant-based alternatives in the context of health and environmental sustainability

Keren currently leads a research programme that investigates the long-term health impacts of plant-based diets funded by Oxford Population Health, and is the lead Principal Investigator (PI) of the MRC funded Longitudinal Population Study grant EPIC-Oxford: Benefits and risks of plant-based diets. She established the Feeding the Future Study (FEED) and is a PI of the EPIC-Oxford study.

Keren's research also investigates the role of diet in cancer risk. She is the co-PI of the WCRF funded grant ProMap: Mapping diet to cancer through the proteome. 

Keren is a 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. She also holds a BSc in Public Health Nutrition (Hons) from Griffith University, where her research focused on childhood malnutrition in relation to Schistosomiasis in the Philippines.