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Charlotte Armah is a research scientist at the Quadram Institute Bioscience (formerly the Institute of Food Research) in Norwich. Dr Armah studies the relationship between diet and cardiovascular health.

Early life and education
Dr Armah was born in London to parents who had immigrated from Ghana in the 50s. She completed a BSc in Medicinal chemistry at the University of Sussex, she then completed a PhD in Food Biophysics and the Institute of Food Research/University of East Anglia in 2000.

Research
Dr Armah has expertise running interventional studies involving human subjects, in one of her projects she studied the effect of a diet rich in high glucoraphanin broccoli on plasma cholesterol, reporting that it reduced plasma cholesterol levels by about 6%. More recently she conducted a trial looking at the effects of drinking blood orange juice (with or without anthocyanins) affect the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Dr Armah has participated in science outreach activities, she was interviewed for the British Library’s Voices of Science series and portrayed in the Royal Society’s video series ‘Inspiring Scientists: Diversity in British science’.

She has been described as a Black pioneer in STEM.