Dr Rachel Neale is a senior cancer epidemiologist who has studied pancreatic and skin cancers; and more recently the health effects of vitamin D. She received her PhD from the University of Queensland and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford University, United Kingdom. She has published over 150 papers and has extensive experience in case-control and cohort studies. Her work has contributed to the discovery of environmental and genetic risk factors for pancreatic

Rachel is currently the lead investigator for D-Health Trial, the second-largest clinical trial of high dose Vitamin D in the world. They are looking into whether routine supplementation of the general population with vitamin D can deliver health benefits.