Alice Stanton

Professor Alice Stanton is a clinician-scientist. She is currently Professor in Cardiovascular Pharmacology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Director of Human Health at Devenish Nutrition. She served on the Committee developing “Ireland’s Agri-food Strategy to 2030” and as an Assembly Member for the Horizon Europe Cancer Mission. She is a Member of the Irish Climate and Health Coalition.
She has delivered many lectures concerning evidence-based healthy diets from sustainable food systems, including the Science Lecture, entitled “Food Quality & Human Health – The Evidence”, at the 2020 Oxford Farming Conference.
She has authored in excess of 140 peer-reviewed published papers, and recently was lead author on a letter, published in The Lancet, which robustly questions the reliability of the Global Burden of Disease 2019 collaborators’ estimates of deaths attributable to unprocessed red meat.