Claudia Allemani

 Professor of Global Public Health, Cancer Survival Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Claudia Allemani is a Professor of Global Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has over 20 years of experience in international comparisons of trends in cancer survival, patterns of care (“high‐resolution” studies) and avoidable premature deaths, with focus on their impact on cancer policy. She leads the data management, quality control and survival analyses for the global surveillance of cancer survival trends (CONCORD Programme), for which she is the Co-Principal Investigator. In 2017, she obtained a European Research Council Consolidator grant to carry out a worldwide study on inequalities in survival from cancers of the breast, cervix and ovary (VENUSCANCER). She collaborates with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and with several other international agencies, including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the French National Cancer Institute (INCa). She is co-chair of the CONCORD-Lancet Global Commission on Cancer.

Updated: October 2024