PEK KEI (BECKY) IM

Biography

Becky is a Wellcome Career Development Fellow & Senior Epidemiologist at the Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH). Her research focuses on investigating the health impacts of alcohol drinking, using data from the China Kadoorie Biobank and the UK Biobank. She was awarded a Wellcome Career Development Award in 2024 to lead and develop a research programme to understand the scope, mechanisms, and burden of alcohol-related health impacts in diverse populations, which may inform alcohol control and treatment strategies to improve population health and wellbeing worldwide.

Dr Im’s previous research has been supported by Oxford Population Health with a DPhil scholarship, an Early Career Research Fellowship and an Intermediate Research fellowship.

The Wellcome Career Development Award provides funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders. The scheme enables award holders to develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programmes of work, and deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health, and wellbeing.

Dr Im will be working alongside several collaborators within Oxford Population Health and the Medical Sciences Division, and international research, policy and engagement partners including the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization.

Becky completed her DPhil in Population Health at the University of Oxford in 2016. She was then awarded an NDPH Early Career Research Fellowship and subsequently an NDPH Intermediate Research Fellowship. She holds a BSc Human Sciences from University College London, an MPhil in Public Health from University of Cambridge.