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, in large prospective cohort studies.

Keren currently leads a research programme funded by Oxford Population Health that investigates the long-term health impacts of plant-based diets. Her work 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. 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 is also 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. 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.