Information and contacts for journalists and media. We’re here to help with your stories about cancer prevention, so please get in touch.
For all media enquiries including comments and statements, spokespeople, statistics, case studies and general information about our cancer prevention work, please contact:
Laura Burrell, Head of Content and Campaigns
Mobile: 07879 483022
Email: pr@wcrf.org
Dr Kate Allen, Executive Director, Science and Public AffairsKate is responsible for the science and policy programmes at World Cancer Research Fund International. Kate has a PhD in neuroscience and can comment on our scientific research and policy work.
Dr Anna Diaz Font, Head of Research FundingAnna obtained a PhD in medical genetics from the University of Barcelona and previously worked at the Wellcome Trust and Prostate Cancer UK. Her expertise covers a wide range of fields from genetics to cell biology and molecular biology.
At WCRF she leads the team responsible for our grant programme, which allows us to fund cancer prevention and survival research all over the world. She can comment on our grant funded research.
Dr Panagiota Mitrou, Director of Research Funding and Science External RelationsDr Mitrou, known as Giota, has a PhD in genetic epidemiology from the University of Cambridge and has written several papers in the area of diet and cancer. She previously held research positions at the National Cancer Institute in the US and at the University of Cambridge. She has worked at WCRF for ten years in various senior positions within the Science Department.
Her main responsibilities include oversight of the research grant programme, our convening and capacity building activities and partnerships at national and international level. In her current role she works closely with the Policy and Public Affairs team to ensure there is coherence between our science and policy activities.
Kate Oldridge-Turner, Head of Policy and Public AffairsKate has a background in human rights law and social policy. She can provide expert comment on our policy work including marketing restrictions and our collaborative EU project that aims to tackle obesity in young people, CO-CREATE.
