#349: Prof. Naomi Allen – How the UK Biobank is Powering Chronic Disease Research

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🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Professor Naomi Allen was appointed Chief Scientist for UK Biobank in 2019, having joined UK Biobank in November 2011 as Senior Epidemiologist. She is Professor of Epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, with a keen research interest in cancer epidemiology.

At UK Biobank she is responsible for following-up participants both through linkage with routine health-related datasets, and through web-based questionnaires. She is also involved in developing the scientific strategy for future enhancements for the study.

Her research interest is largely in the role of diet, obesity and circulating biomarkers in cancer development.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. I am your host, as always, Danny Lennon.
0:19.9	You're listening to Episode 349 of the podcast.
0:25.2	A thank you to those of you who are regular listeners to the podcast and who sent in
0:29.7	very kind feedback about some of our recent episodes, including last week's show on
0:34.9	omega-3 supplementation and heart disease. If you haven't yet listened to that,
0:39.3	then maybe that's something to put on your to-do list. If it sounds like a topic that is of interest to
0:45.0	you. And also over on the Sigma Nutrition website, we've recently released an article written
0:51.3	by our research communication officer, Flanagan on the topic of
0:56.6	plant-based diets and looking at three often cited studies that are used by some to promote the
1:03.7	idea that a plant-based diet or more specifically oftentimes a whole food plant-based diet can reverse
1:10.6	heart disease and we'll
1:12.1	look at three particular studies just because they come up in conversation so often so that you
1:16.5	can maybe get a better grasp of what is in those studies and do they actually back such claims so that's
1:22.4	over on sigma nutrition.com and whilst you're on the website you may as well look around at
1:27.4	not only our previous
1:28.5	episodes of the podcast, but our Sigma statements, which are our written long-form pieces
1:33.3	of content on specific confusing topics in nutritional science that we lay out our particular
1:40.1	position on with supporting evidence as to why that is the case. So that's over on sigma
1:45.9	nutrition.com. So let's get into today's conversation. And today I'm delighted to have
1:53.2	Professor Naomi Allen on the podcast. And Professor Allen was appointed chief scientist for UK
2:00.4	Biobank last year in 2019, and she'd previously been with UK Biobank since 2011 as a senior epidemiologist.
2:10.6	She's also a professor of epidemiology at Notfield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford, and a lot of her research
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