Dr Meena Rafiq is an Academic GP and Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and University College London (UCL). She has a specialist interest in research using linked Electronic Health Records to improve early cancer diagnosis, with a particular focus on identifying early markers of cancer using data from GP blood tests. Alongside working as a GP in Australia and the UK, she has an MSc in Epidemiology and expertise in conducting 'big data' research using a number of Primary Care datasets worldwide.