DrRhea Harewood

I am a cancer epidemiologist and a NIHR Biomedical Research Centre-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Surgery and Cancer. My research interests lie in using observational and molecular epidemiological approaches to investigate the aetiology of colorectal cancer to inform prevention and early detection strategies. Prior to this role, I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Metabolic Epidemiology Team at the International Agency for Research in Cancer in Lyon, France. I spent several years as a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine investigating drivers of inequality in cancer survival between countries and ethnic groups. I also worked in cancer surveillance in the Caribbean as well as for the World Health Organisation and Johns Hopkins University.

I have a PhD in Epidemiology from Imperial College London, an MSc in Public Health from LSHTM and a BSc in Chemistry from the University of the West Indies. I am an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and have extensive postgraduate teaching experience, both face to face and via distance learning.