Rebecca Landy, PhD

At ACS since 2025

Rebecca Landy, PhD, is a principal scientist for the Cancer Risk Factors and Screening Research team within the Surveillance & Health Equity Science (SHES) department of the American Cancer Society (ACS). Her research focuses on cancer screening, prevention and early detection of cancer, across multiple cancer sites. She is interested in the evaluation of emerging screening technology and screening eligibility criteria for targeted cancer screening programs, such as lung cancer.

Research focus and accomplishments

Before joining ACS, Landy was a research fellow in the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute (NCI). Her research focused on the natural history of cancer, and using this knowledge to inform cancer screening, prevention and early diagnosis.

At Queen Mary University of London her research focused on cervical cancer screening and modelling the impact of HPV vaccination on cervical cancer incidence.

At NCI, her research focused on modelling the impact of HPV vaccination on HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer and evaluating the population-level impact of lung cancer screening guidelines.

Her research has informed national and international cervical and lung cancer screening guidelines.

She is also interested in new screening technology, including cervical self-sampling and capsule-sponge testing for Barrett's esophagus, a precursor condition to esophageal adenocarcinoma. 

Publications

For a full list of Dr. Landy’s publications, visit her Google Scholar page.

Contact 

• rebecca.landy@cancer.org

Other Appointments

• National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Adjunct Researcher, 2025 - Present
• University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB), Associate Scholar, 2025 - Present
• Visiting Senior Researcher Fellow, Queen Mary University of London, 2023-Present

Work before ACS

• National Cancer Institute, Research Fellow
• Centre for Cancer Prevention, Queen Mary University of London, Statistician

Education

• PhD: Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK, 2012
• MSc: Statistics, University College London, UK, 2008
• BA: Mathematics and Statistics, University of Oxford, UK, 2007

Personal life 

I live in Philadelphia, PA, though I was born and raised in England. I enjoy hiking and traveling.