Prof. Lesley Anderson
Chair in Health Data Science, University of Aberdeen
Prof. Lesley Anderson is listed as Chair in Health Data Science, University of Aberdeen. Lesley is scheduled to speak at Digital Health and Care Scotland 2027 on 10 February 2027.
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About
Professor Lesley Anderson is Professor and Interdisciplinary Institute Director for Health, Nutrition and Wellbeing at the University of Aberdeen. She joined Aberdeen in March 2020 after serving as Deputy Director of the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, where she led the production of Official Cancer Statistics for Northern Ireland, managed a multidisciplinary team of 25 staff, and developed major national and international research collaborations. Professor Anderson trained at Queen’s University Belfast and was awarded a PhD in Cancer Epidemiology in 2004. She subsequently completed a UK Medical Research Council Academic Fellowship and a Cancer Prevention Fellowship at the US National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland. With more than 25 years of experience in population health research, health data science, artificial intelligence evaluation, and implementation science, Professor Anderson has led and contributed to interdisciplinary programmes across the UK, I