Professor Marcus Richards

Professor of Psychology in Epidemiology (the method of finding the pattern and causes of diseases in populations)

Expertise: Epidemiology, dementia and mental health, particularly emotional problems; links between mental and physical function.

More about Marcus:

I’m a psychologist by background but in practice am an epidemiologist.  I’m one of a team that runs the British 1946 birth cohort and lead a program combining research on cognitive and psychiatric function over the life course.