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Tammy Tong
BSc, MPhil, PhD
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow & Senior Nutritional Epidemiologist
- MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology Module Lead: Principles of Epidemiology
Tammy's main research interest is the role of diet in health. Her recent research at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU) has been on the health effects of vegetarian and vegan diets, with a particular focus on cardiovascular disease and bone health, using data from EPIC-Oxford and the UK Biobank.
Tammy was awarded an Oxford Population Health Fellowship in 2021 to lead research in the Dietary Protein and Stroke Consortium.
She was subsequently awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship in 2023 to develop and lead a programme of research to understand the role of dietary and blood proteins in the development of age-related diseases related to bone and vascular health.
Tammy is a member of the EPIC-Oxford Steering Committee, and also a Module Lead for the Principles of Epidemiology module as part of the MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology.
Prior to joining the Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Tammy received her PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the University of Cambridge. She also holds a BSc in Human Sciences (University College London) and an MPhil in Epidemiology (University of Cambridge).
Tammy Tong joined CEU in 2017.
Key publications
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Vegetarian and vegan diets and risks of total and site-specific fractures: results from the prospective EPIC-Oxford study.
Journal article
Tong TYN. et al, (2020), BMC Med, 18
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The associations of major foods and fibre with risks of ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke: a prospective study of 418 329 participants in the EPIC cohort across nine European countries.
Journal article
Tong TYN. et al, (2020), Eur Heart J, 41, 2632 - 2640
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Risks of ischaemic heart disease and stroke in meat eaters, fish eaters, and vegetarians over 18 years of follow-up: results from the prospective EPIC-Oxford study.
Journal article
Tong TYN. et al, (2019), BMJ, 366
Recent publications
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Fruits, vegetables, legumes and potatoes and risk of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
Journal article
Meyer A. et al, (2025), Am J Gastroenterol
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Association Between Dietary Intake and Blood Concentrations of One-Carbon-Metabolism-Related Nutrients in European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition
Journal article
Park JY. et al, (2025), Nutrients, 17, 1970 - 1970
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Dietary Amino Acids and Risk of Stroke Subtypes: Results from 3 Large Prospective Cohort Studies.
Journal article
Tong TY. et al, (2025), J Nutr
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Identifying proteomic risk factors for cancer using prospective and exome analyses of 1463 circulating proteins and risk of 19 cancers in the UK Biobank.
Journal article
Papier K. et al, (2024), Nat Commun, 15
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Methods and participant characteristics in the Cancer Risk in Vegetarians Consortium: A cross-sectional analysis across 11 prospective studies
Journal article
Dunneram Y. et al, (2024), medrxive