Emma Woods

Trustee

Bio

I'm a Board Chair and Non-Executive Director with extensive business experience leading consumer-focused organisations through growth and change.

Emma Woods is a Board Chair and Non-Executive Director with extensive business experience leading consumer-focused organisations through growth and change. A consistent thread throughout her career has been improving outcomes in areas connected to health and wellbeing, particularly for women.

Although Emma has not personally experienced breast cancer, she has seen the impact it can have on colleagues and close friends — including several diagnosed at a young age. Those experiences have shaped her belief that we cannot become complacent about a disease that still affects so many lives.

Emma joins Breast Cancer Now with a strong commitment to improving early detection, advancing research into secondary breast cancer, and ensuring the disease remains firmly on both the public and government agenda.

I am truly honoured to be joining Breast Cancer Now as a trustee. While I have not been personally diagnosed with breast cancer, I have seen first-hand the shock and disruption it brings to colleagues, friends and their families — including women diagnosed far too young. There can be a sense that breast cancer has been solved. It hasn’t. Too many people are still affected, and there is so much more we need to understand, particularly about secondary breast cancer. Breast Cancer Now’s work — combining research with direct support — is vital. I am proud to play a part in helping Claire and the charity keep this issue visible, urgent and properly prioritised, so that together we can improve outcomes for everyone affected.

Emma Woods

Trustee