Professor Karen Canfell is a cancer epidemiologist whose work has impacted cancer policy and implementation of cancer control strategies nationally and internationally. She is Professor of Public Health and NHMRC Leadership Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Sydney. Previously, she served as inaugural Director of The Daffodil Centre, a joint venture between Cancer Council NSW and the University of Sydney, from 2021-2024. She holds a D.Phil. in epidemiology from the University of Oxford (2004). In 2024, she was made Companion of the Order of Australia in the King’s Birthday Honours for eminent service to medicine as an epidemiologist, particularly through cancer research, to tertiary education, and as a mentor and leader.
Professor Karen Canfell
