14 Facts About Valerie Beral

Dame Valerie Beral was an Australian-born British epidemiologist, academic and a specialist in breast cancer epidemiology.

Valerie Beral was Professor of Epidemiology, a Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford and was the Head of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford and Cancer Research UK from 1989.

Valerie Beral was born in Australia on 28 July 1946.

Valerie Beral completed her MBBS degree graduating with first-class honours from the University of Sydney in 1969.

Valerie Beral felt very comfortable with the move because she had never felt happy in clinical medicine.

Valerie Beral moved on to other projects but this is an area in which the data have yet to provide support for her initial instinct that the contraceptive pill, like pregnancy, will eventually be shown to protect against breast cancer.

Valerie Beral completed her training in 1972 and began working for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for a number of years.

Valerie Beral served on various international committees for the World Health Organization and the United States National Academy of Sciences.

Valerie Beral chaired the Department of Health's Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer Screening.

Valerie Beral was one of the leaders of the Million Women Study which was opened in 1997, and has recruited more than 1.3 million UK women over 50 via the NHS breast screening centres.

Valerie Beral lived in Oxford with her American husband, Paul Fine, who worked at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Valerie Beral maintained close links with Australia but "could not imagine returning to live there".

Valerie Beral died on 26 August 2022, at the age of 76, after a year-long illness.

Valerie Beral was survived by her husband, their two sons, two grandchildren, and her sister.