Mei Ling Yap

About Associate Professor Mei Ling Yap

Program Head Cancer

  • MBBS,
  • BSc,
  • FRANZCR ,
  • PhD

Associate Professor Mei Ling is a clinician researcher and the Head of the Cancer Program at the George Institute for Global Health. She is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow (2023-2027) and was the 2024 recipient of the NSW Premier's Outstanding Cancer Research Award for "Improving Equitable Outcomes". She is a Conjoint Associate Professor at UNSW Sydney and Western Sydney University as well as lead of the Collaboration for Cancer Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (CCORE), the Ingham Institute for Medical Research.

A/Prof Yap completed her clinical training in Australia, Singapore and Canada and is a Staff Specialist Radiation Oncologist based at South Western Sydney Local Health District.

A/Prof Yap leads projects supporting cancer services capacity building in low-and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific as co-chair of the Asia-Pacific Radiation Oncology Special Interest Group of RANZCR. She serves on the Editorial Board of JCO Global Oncology.

Publications

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Stage-adjusted forecasting of radiotherapy demand and outcome benefits across income groups: Estimating survival and local control gains by 2050

Radiotherapy and Oncology Date published:

Using linked Census ancestry data to examine all-cause mortality by ethnicity in Australia

International Journal of Population Data Science Date published:

‘ Every Touch Point Is an Opportunity ’: Tobacco Control Experts' Views on How to Implement Smoking Cessation Interventions Within an Australian Lung Cancer Screening Program

Cancer Medicine Date published:

Effect of sodium-reduced potassium-enriched salt substitutes on stomach cancer: the Salt Substitute and Stroke Study (SSaSS)

BMC Medicine Date published:

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