Dr Pek Kei Im
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Pek Kei (Becky) Im
BSc, MPhil, DPhil, AFHEA
Wellcome Career Development Fellow
Becky is a Wellcome Career Development Fellow at the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit. Her research focuses on investigating the health impacts of alcohol drinking, using data from the China Kadoorie Biobank and the UK Biobank. She was awarded a Wellcome Career Development Award in 2024 to lead and develop a research programme to understand the scope, mechanisms, and burden of alcohol-related health impacts in diverse populations.
Becky joined Oxford Population Health in 2016 to study a DPhil in Population Health. After completing her DPhil, she was awarded an Early Career Research Fellowship and subsequently an Intermediate Research Fellowship. She holds a BSc Human Sciences from University College London and an MPhil in Public Health from the University of Cambridge.
Recent publications
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The US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine was economical with the truth about alcohol and health.
Journal article
Stockwell T. et al, (2025), J Stud Alcohol Drugs
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Binge-pattern alcohol consumption and genetic risk as determinants of alcohol-related liver disease.
Journal article
Ding C. et al, (2023), Nat Commun, 14
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Associations of alcohol intake with subclinical carotid atherosclerosis in 22,000 Chinese adults.
Journal article
Zhou T. et al, (2023), Atherosclerosis, 377, 34 - 42
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Alcohol consumption and risks of more than 200 diseases in Chinese men.
Journal article
Im PK. et al, (2023), Nat Med, 29, 1476 - 1486
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Alcohol intake and cause-specific mortality: Conventional and genetic evidence in 500,000 men and women in China
Conference paper
Millwood IY. et al, (2022), ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH, 46, 26 - 26