To celebrate International Women's Day we're featuring some of our inspirational researchers and academics at the Faculty of Population Health Sciences.
Dr Rochelle Burgess is Director of the MSc in Global Health and Development and UCL’s Global Network on Mental Health and Child Marriage. She co-hosts UCL's newest podcast, 'Public Health Disrupted'.
Professor Jugnoo Rahi (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health) has been featured in a book of inspirational women by the British Medical Association (BMA) to celebrate International Women’s Day 2021.
Dr Daisy Fancourt (UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care) leads the 'COVID-19 Social Study', a longitudinal study into the psychological and social impact of the pandemic involving over 95,000 adults in the UK.
Dr Gwyneth Davies (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health) has been awarded a prestigious Future Leaders Fellowship by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) for her research into Cystic Fibrosis (CF).
Professor Anna David, Director of the Institute for Women's Health, has led a team of UCL researchers and NHS clinicians to operate on the damaged spinal cords of babies in the womb, in what are the first surgeries of their kind in the UK.
A national initiative has been launched by a group of senior female Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority researchers, including UCL’s Professor Monica Lakhanpaul (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health), to explore the impact of Covid-19 on people from BAME groups.
Professor Dame Anne Johnson has been elected as the new President of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. She is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Co-Director of UCL Health of the Public.
Bianca De Stavola, Professor of Medical Statistics at the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, has been awarded the 2021 Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Bradford Hill Medal for her outstanding contribution to the development of statistics.
International Women's Day Spotlight: Lydia Okoibhole
Professor Sarah Hawkes, co-director of the gender equality in health initiative, ‘Global Health 50/50’, presents her research on the relationship between gender and health.
Vaccination: can we learn from the past to inform the future?
Helen Bedford, Professor of Child Health at the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, discusses the use of vaccination programmes to control infectious diseases.
Tech to improve lives: the Contraception Choices website
Dr Julia Bailey, Senior Researcher at the UCL eHealth Unit, explores women’s views and experiences of contraception, and the potential of digital health in promoting informed choice.
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