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We have a whole community of people at UCL who conduct world-leading interdisciplinary research to advance knowledge, inform policy, and tackle some of today’s greatest public health challenges.

Here is just a selection of our colleagues who are using their expertise, ideas and commitment to create change at local, national and global scale. You can contact them to find out more.

Creative Health

Helen Chatterjee
Prof Helen Chatterjee
Professor of Human and Ecological Health
Faculty of Life Sciences
Public health focus: understanding how community engagement supports different aspects of health and wellbeing.
More about Helen/ Email Helen

Ranjita
Dr Ranjita Dhital

Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Health Studies
Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Public health focus: applying participatory and arts-based methods to co-design community pharmacy health spaces.
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Daisy Fancourt
Dr Daisy Fancourt
Associate Prof of Psychobiology & Epidemiology
Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
Public health focus: understanding the effects of social factors on health, including social deficits and social assets.
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Thomas Kador

Dr Thomas Kador 
Lecturer in Creative Health
Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Public health focus: object-based learning and culture, health and wellbeing.
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Law for Health

Hazel Genn
Prof Dame Hazel Genn
Professor of Socio-Legal Studies
Faculty of Laws
Public health focus: stimulating wider action on health inequalities, through the use of the law to tackle social determinants of health.
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Sarah Beardon
Senior Research Fellow
Faculty of Laws
Public health focus: tackling social and economic circumstances that are strongly harmful to health and are root causes of health inequality.
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Jeff King
Prof Jeff King
Professor of Law
Faculty of Laws
Public health focus: legal response to Covid-19 with attention to its socio-political context.
More about Jeff/ Email Jeff

The Built Environment and Health

Tadj
Prof Tadj Oreszczyn
Professor of Energy and Environment
Faculty of the Built Environment
Public health focus: member of the Executive Committee of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change and co-leads the mitigation theme.  
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Helen
Dr Helen Pineo
Associate Professor in Healthy and Sustainable Cities
Faculty of the Built Environment
Public health focus: how property development, regeneration and urban policy can support health and sustainability. 
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Grant Mills
Prof Grant Mills
Professor of Healthcare Infrastructure Delivery
Faculty of the Built Environment
Public health focus: advanced healthcare infrastructure delivery models and interdisciplinary design.
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Jenny Mindell
Prof Jenny Mindell
Professorial Research Fellow
Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
Public health focus: understanding how low-carbon transport policies can reduce inequalities and have health-promoting co-benefits.
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Nick Tyler
Prof Nick Tyler
Chadwick Chair of Civil Engineering
Faculty of Engineering Science
Public health focus: understanding how people interact with the environments around them. Nick is the creator and director of the new PEARL (Person-Activity-Environment Research Laboratory) facility. 
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