PEK KEI (BECKY) IM

Biography

Becky is a Wellcome Career Development Fellow and 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, with the aim to inform alcohol control and treatment strategies to improve population health and wellbeing worldwide. She 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’s previous research has been supported by Oxford Population Health with a DPhil scholarship, an Early Career Research Fellowship and an Intermediate Research Fellowship. She has been awarded multiple early-career researcher awards, including the Ole-Jørgen Skog Award (2019) and the Vice-Chancellor’s Award – Breakthrough Researcher category (Highly commended, 2025). She obtained her DPhil in Population Health from the University of Oxford in 2020, and holds an MPhil in Public Health from the University of Cambridge and a BSc Human Sciences from University College London.

Becky is a member of the Oxford Policy Engagement Network Steering Group, and also a Module Lead for the Principles of Epidemiology module in the MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology. She is also a founding member of the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ISBRA) Early-Career Investigator Association.