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Supervisors

There are three main ways to identify an appropriate supervisor to contact:

1. Browse the list of available supervisors provided below.

2. Look directly on UCL's Institutional Research Information System (IRIS) where you can search for relevant academic units and potential supervisors by keyword. Not all academics are listed in IRIS but it is a good place to start.

3. Search our online research repository (UCL Discovery) where all UCL's research papers are published, subject to approvals. If you identify a research paper that particularly interests you it is likely that one of the authors would be a suitable research supervisor.

Supervisors 

Below is a list of primary supervisors available within the Institute of Epidemilogy and Health Care. Click on a supervisors name to view their IRIS profile.

Each supervisor is listed under the Research Department they are based within. There are four research departments within the Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, click on the Research Department name below to jump to each list of supervisors: 

Research Department of Behavioural Science and Health

Professor Jamie Brown

  • Behaviour Change
  • Population Health

Dr Dorina Cadar

  • Ageing
  • Cardiometabolic Science
  • Human Wellbeing
  • Neuroscience
  • Population Health

Dr Daisy Fancourt 

  • Behaviour Change
  • Collaborative Social Science
  • Global Health
  • Human Wellbeing
  • Infection, Immunology & Inflammation
  • Personalised Medicine
  • Population Health

Dr Abi Fisher

  • Behaviour Change
  • Populations & Lifelong Health

Dr Clare Llewelyn

  • Behaviour Change
  • Genetics
  • Populations & Lifelong Health

Dr Georgios Lyratzopoulous

  • Cancer
  • Populations & Lifelong Health

Dr Lion Shahab

  • Neoroscience
  • Populations & Lifelong Health

Professor Andrew Steptoe

  • Psycho-biological factors in health and disease.
  • Psycho-physiological factors in cardiovascular disease.
  • Psycho-neuro-immunology
  • Positive affect and health

Dr Christian Von Wagner

  • Behaviour Change
  • Populations & Lifelong Health

Department of Applied Health Research

Professor Rosalind Raine

  • Global Health
  • Behaviour Change
  • Cancer
  • Digital Health
  • Population Health

Dr Jessica Sheringham

  • Cancer
  • Personalised Medicine
  • Populations & Lifelong Health

Dr Nora Pashayan

  • Cancer
  • Economic Analysis
  • Genetics
  • Personalised Medicine

Professor Paula Lorgelly

  • Health Economics
  • Cancer
  • Precision medicine
  • Outcomes research

Dr Manuel Gomes

  • Health Economics methodology
  • Econometric Evaluation
  • Policy analysis
  • Large observational studies

Dr Elena Pizzo

  • Health economic analysis
  • Economic evaluation

Dr Georgia Black

  • Qualitative analysis
  • Health care improvement
  • Cancer
  • Inequalities

Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health

Dr David Batty

  • Psychological predictors of cardiovascular disease and cancer
  • Early life origins of dementia
  • Meta-analysis and systematic review
  • Mendelian Randomisation

Dr Jane Biddulph

  • Health inequalities within ageing populations
  • Investigation of predictors for chronic diseases/conditions
  • Natural history of and mortality from chronic diseases/conditions Cancer, cognitive, and mental health epidemiology
  • Longitudinal survey data and analyses

Professor Martin Bobak

  • Socio-economic and psychosocial factors and health
  • Health in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Rapid social change and health
  • Alcohol consumption, drinking patterns and health
  • Social and physical environmental predictors of pregnancy outcomes and
  • infant mortality

Professor Annie Britton

  • Social inequalities in coronary heart disease.
  • Alcohol consumption and health consequences

Professor Eric Brunner

  • Social inequalities in diet, nutrition and coronary disease.
  • Biological stress mechanisms.
  • Genetic effects on coronary risk in socio-economic context.
  • Diabetes and coronary disease.

Dr Noriko Cable

  • Resiliency and adult psychological health
  • Adolescent alcohol use, adult alcohol misuse and psychological health
  • Social gradient in adult health related behaviour and psychological health
  • Social integration and psychological health: gender and cultural differences
  • Parent-child relationship and adult social integration and psychological health

Dr Panayotes Demakakos

  • Population Health

Professor Nora Groce

  • Global health and international development
  • Cross-cultural systems of health care
  • Human rights
  • Global disability issues

Professor Andrew Hayward

  • Collaborative Social Science
  • Data Science
  • Digital Health
  • Global Health
  • Infection, Immunology & Inflammation
  • Personalised Medicine
  • Population Health
  • Public Policy & Governance

Professor Jenny Head

  • Comparison of methods for dealing with non-ignorable missing data mechanisms
  • Trajectories of bio-markers as predictors of incident disease
  • Psychosocial factors, work stress and health
  • Alcohol dependence
  • Determinants and consequences of sickness absence

Dr Anja Heilmann

  • Dental Public Health
  • Oral Health
  • Population Health

Dr Stephen Jivraj

  • Neighbourhood effects
  • Spatial and social inequalities
  • Later life wellbeing
  • Longitudinal data analysis

Professor Yvonne Kelly

  • Health and development during childhood and adolescence
  • Social and ethnic inequalities

Dr Maria Kett

  • The socio-economic effects of disability in developing countries;
  • Socio-economic effects of disasters
  • and conflict (with particular focus on disability);
  • Conflict, Migration and human rights
  • Humanitarian interventions and organisations

Professor Mika Kivimaki

  • Work and health
  • Psychosocial factors and disease prognosis
  • Psychosocial risk factors and ageing
  • Sickness absence and early retirement
  • Life-course socio-economic position and adult risk factors

Dr Rebecca Lacey

  • Life Course Epidemiology 
  • Human Wellbeing
  • Population Health

Dr Jennifer Mindell

  • Smoking, tobacco use, and cotinine levels in minority ethnic groups
  • Predictors of mortality, cancer, and/or hospital admission in Scottish and English Health Survey participants (obesity, or hypertension, or tobacco use or exposure and cotinine levels, inequalities focus possible.)
  • Compression of morbidity
  • Health impact assessment

Professor Anne McMunn

  • Parental employment, domestic labour and child behaviour
  • Family structure and child health and behaviour
  • Gender, work, family and health across the life course.
  • Social participation, ageing and wellbeing

Dr Anne Peasey

  • Ageing
  • Cardiometabolic Science
  • Global Health
  • Human Wellbeing
  • Population Health

Professor Hynek Pikhart

  • International comparisons of social determinants of health
  • Social inequalities in health across the life course
  • Ageing studies in Central and Eastern Europe, China and Korea

Professor Amanda Sacker

Dr Shaun Scholes

  • Behaviour Change
  • Populations & Lifelong Health

Professor Nicola Shelton

  • Geographical inequalities in health  
  • Health and alcohol consumption; Health and physical activity 
  • Occupation and health; Extended working lives 
  • Young people’s health

Professor George Tsakos

  • Oral health related quality of life
  • Oral health inequalities and social determinants
  • Oral health needs assessment
  • Effect of oral health on diet and nutrition

Professor Richard Watt

  • Social determinants of oral health
  • Oral health inequalities
  • Life course perspective on oral health
  • Evaluation of oral health improvement interventions

Dr Paula Zaninotto

  • Behaviour Change
  • Populations & Lifelong Health

Research Department of Primary Care and Population Health

Dr Julia Bailey

  • Sexual health
  • eHealth
  • Online trials
  • Epidemiology and survey research
  • Qualitative research methodology

Dr Fiona Hamilton

  • Digital health
  • Populations and lifelong health

Professor Irene Petersen

  • Digital health
  • Neuroscience
  • Populations and lifelong health

Professor Sophie Park

  • Neuroscience
  • Populations and lifelong health

Dr Louise Marston

  • Populations and lifelong health

Professor Elizabeth Murray

  • Digital Health
  • Populations and lifelong health

Professor Irwin Nazareth

  • Digital health
  • Global health
  • Neuroscience
  • Populations and lifelong health

Professor Greta Rait

  • Ageing
  • Neuroscience
  • Populations and lifelong health

Professor Kate Walters

  • Ageing
  • Neuroscience
  • Populations and lifelong health

Professor Goya Wannamethee

  • Cardiovascular epidemiology
  • Ageing

Professor Fiona Stevenson

  • Collaborative Social Science
  • Digital Health
  • Global Health
  • Population Health

Dr Laura Horsfall

  • Ageing
  • Genetics
  • Personalised Medicine
  • Population Health

Dr Barbara Jefferis

  • Ageing
  • Behaviour Change
  • Cardiometabolic Science
  • Genetics
  • Population Health