[1] She worked as a general practitioner in Cambridge, and completed a doctorate on chronic disease in primary care.
[5] She was made Director of the Wolfson Institute of Population Health and co-lead of the Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Unit.
[citation needed] In 2023 she developed a ten-point plan that focussed on improve cancer services in the United Kingdom.
[6] She launched a new Centre for Cancer Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis at Queen Mary University of London in 2024.
[7] She holds honorary positions at the University of Melbourne, in South Africa and in Zimbabwe.