Rate My Professor Lesley Anderson

Professor Lesley Anderson is the University of Aberdeen’s Interdisciplinary Institute Director for Health, Nutrition and Wellbeing and holds a Personal Chair in Health Data Science. She joined the University in March 2020 after serving as Deputy Director of the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry. Anderson trained at Queen’s University Belfast, where she earned a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Science in 2001 and a PhD in cancer epidemiology in 2004. She also holds an MPHe in Population Health from the University of Manchester (2006, distinction) and a PGCHET from Queen’s University Belfast (2009). Prior to her current role, she completed an Academic Fellowship funded by the UK Medical Research Council and a Cancer Prevention Fellowship at the National Cancer Institute in the United States, and she joined Queen’s University Belfast as an academic in 2010.