Epidemiology and Public Health
The Epidemiology and Public Health Research Theme includes the following sub-groups:
- Epidemiology and Disease Prevention
- Behavioural and Social Epidemiology
- Infectious Diseases
- Physical Activity and Public Health
- Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
- Statistical Methods in Epidemiology and Genetics
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Genetics and Genomics
- Cancer Research
- Nutrition and Food Systems
How to find a research supervisor
Research supervisors are either staff members of the University, or based in one of the research units or institutions associated with the University.
Supervisors are in high demand and may not be able to respond to your enquiry immediately, so please be patient. Some may already be supervising the maximum number of PhD students they can, and won’t be able to take on any new students.
Browse potential research supervisors:
accepting applications from prospective postgraduate students
accepting applications from summer students
Supervisors accepting applications from prospective Postgraduate Students:
Professor Jean Adams
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Diet & public health; population interventions; public health policy
Email: jma79@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Amy Ahern
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Development and evaluation of behavioural interventions for obesity and diabetes; Eating behaviours; Mental health in obesity and type 2 diabetes; Understanding the determinants of initiation and maintenance of health behaviour change
Email: ala34@cam.ac.uk
Dr Emanuele Di Angelantonio
Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care
Topic: Prevention of cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular disease epidemiology. Global Health. Risk Prediction
Email: ed303@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Antonis Antoniou
Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Cancer genetic epidemiology, cancer risk modelling, genetic epidemiology of BRCA1, BRCA2 and other cancer susceptibility genes
Email: aca20@cam.ac.uk
Dr William Astle
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Statistical methods with applications in genetics, genomics and haematology
Email: wja24@cam.ac.uk
Professor Kate Baker
Genetics
Topic: Genomics epidemiology of bacterial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance
Email: kb827@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jessica Barrett
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Multiple outcome modelling
Email: jessica.barrett@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Blagborough
Department of Pathology
Topic: Malaria transmission
Email: amb283@cam.ac.uk
Dr Michael Boemo
Department of Pathology and Department of Genetics
Topic: Developing AI and mathematical models to determine how genome replication and repair can be targeted in cancer and infectious diseases
Email: mb915@cam.ac.uk
Dr Leonardo Bottolo
Department of Medical Genetics
Topic: Computational methods for single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) and single-cell Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (scATAC-seq)
Email: lb664@cam.ac.uk
Dr Soren Brage
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Epidemiology of physical activity behaviour and fitness
Email: soren.brage@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Dr Stephen Burgess
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Genetics and causality
Email: sb452@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Adam Butterworth
Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular disease epidemiology
Email: asb38@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Maria Chondronikola
Clinical Biochemistry
Topic: Human nutritional physiology and experimental medicine
Email: mc2425@cam.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Conlan
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Epidemiology and mathematical modelling
Email: ajkc2@cam.ac.uk
Dr Isidro Cortes-Ciriano
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Cancer Genomics
Email: icortes@ebi.ac.uk
Professor Nik Cunniffe
Plant Sciences
Topic: Modelling the spread, detection, evolution and control of plant pests and pathogens
Email: njc1001@cam.ac.uk
Professor John Danesh
Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Molecular and genetic epidemiology of coronary heart disease
Email: johndaneshpa@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Daniela De Angelis
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Evidence synthesis to inform health
Email: daniela.deangelis@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Emanuele Di Angelantonio
Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Prevention of cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular disease epidemiology. Global Health. Risk Prediction.
Email: ed303@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Robbie Duschinsky
Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: child and family mental health, the integration of health and social care for children and families, and the use of qualitative methods within primary care research
Email: rd522@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Douglas Easton
Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Genetic epidemiology (especially cancer) and statistical genetics
Email: dfe20@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Tamsin Ford
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Interventional epidemiology - children and young people's mental health
Email: tjf52@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Nita Forouhi
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Nutritional Epidemiology in relation to diabetes and obesity
Email: nita.forouhi@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Professor Chris Gilligan
Department of Plant Sciences
Topic: Epidemiology and modelling
Email: cag1@cam.ac.uk
Dr Robert Goudie
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Hospital electronic health records for acute care; data integration; Bayesian methods
Email: robert.goudie@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Stefan Gräf
Department of Medicine
Topic: Genetics, genomics and environmental determinants of sex-differences in microvascular health and disease
Email: sg550@cam.ac.uk
Professor Simon Griffin
Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health
Email: ProfGP@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Eric Harshfield
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Multi-omics for prediction of vascular dementia and other vascular neurodegenerative diseases, and prioritisation of therapeutic targets for prevention and treatment
Email: eh457@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Kathryn Hesketh
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Physical activity behaviours during preconception, pregnancy and postpartum; health behaviours and risky play in 0-5-year-olds; health promotion within families with young children
Email: Krh40@cam.ac.uk
Professor Claire Hughes
Department of Psychology (Centre for Family Research)
Topic: Developmental change from age 2 to age 6 and familial predictors
Email: ch288@cam.ac.uk
Dr Stephen Kaptoge
Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Applied statistical methods particularly in relation to chronic disease epidemiology
Email: skk22@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Siddhartha Kar
Oncology
Topic: cancer epidemiology, cancer genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics, clonal haematopoiesis
Email: sk718@cam.ac.uk
Dr Paul Kirk
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Clustering methods for biomarker data
Email: paul.kirk@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Samuel Lambert
Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health & Primary Care
Topic: Multimorbidity involving cardiometabolic diseases; molecular and genetic epidemiology; polygenic [risk] scores; risk prediction; open-science tools and resources
Email: sl925@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Graham Murray
Psychiatry
Topic: Causes, mechanisms and treatments of mental disorder. Psychiatric and brain imaging genetics.
Email: gm285@cam.ac.uk
Professor Ken Ong
MRC Epidemiology Unit / Department of Paediatrics
Topic: Childhood obesity, growth and development, and relationships to adult metabolic disease
Email: ken.ong@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Dr Jenna Panter
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Physical Activity and Public Health
Email: jenna.panter@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Professor John Perry
Institute of Metabolic Science
Topic: Using human genetic approaches to understand biological mechanisms influencing reproductive ageing and metabolic health
Email: john.perry@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Ms Eqbal Radwan
Biology
Topic: Plant biotechnology, plant molecular biology, nanobiotechnology in plant production
Email: ernp2030@gmail.com
Dr Olivier Restif
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Mathematical models for infectious disease dynamics
Email: or226@cam.ac.uk
Professor Sylvia Richardson
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Statistical Genomics and High Dimensional Data
Email: sylvia.richardson@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Andres Roman-Urrestarazu
Psychiatry
Topic: Public health policy and economics of the global opioid epidemic
Email: aer56@cam.ac.uk
Dr Henrik Salje
Department of Genetics
Topic: Infectious disease dynamics
Email: hs743@cam.ac.uk
Dr Andrea Smith
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Behavoural Epidemiology and interventions in young people
Email:
Professor Derek Smith
Department of Zoology
Topic: Evolution of pathogens
Email: d.smith@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Professor Nicholas Thomson
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Bacterial genomics and evolution
Email: nrt@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Brian Tom
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Statistics for stratified medicine
Email: brian.tom@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Professor Caroline Trotter
Veterinary Medicine & Pathology
Topic: Epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases and the impact of immunisation
Email: clt56@cam.ac.uk
Dr Alecia-Jane Twigger
Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Topic: Lactation; biosynthesis; mammary gland biology; womens health
Email: ajt215@cam.ac.uk
Dr Esther van Sluijs
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People
Email: esther.vansluijs@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Professor Nicholas Wareham
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Aetiology and Mechanisms of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders of Later Life
Email: nick.wareham@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Dr Varun Warrier
Psychiatry
Topic: Neurodevelopmental conditions, genetics, big data, machine learning/AI, neuroimaging genetics, longitudinal data analyses
Email: vw260@cam.ac.ul
Professor Martin White
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Diet, nutrition, food systems and population health
Email: Martin.White@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Dr Eleanor Winpenny
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: What influences changes in diet, eating behaviours and cardiovascular health through adolescence and early adulthood?
Email: ew470@cam.ac.uk
Dr Angela Wood
Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Biostatistics, Health Data Science, Whole-population Electronic Health Records
Email: amw79@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor James Woodcock
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Built environment, transport, and health
Email: jw745@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Research supervisors accepting applications from summer students
Dr Amy Ahern
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Development and evaluation of behavioural interventions for obesity and diabetes; Eating behaviours; Mental health in obesity and type 2 diabetes; Understanding the determinants of initiation and maintenance of health behaviour change
Email: ala34@cam.ac.uk
Dr Emanuele Di Angelantonio
Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care
Topic: Prevention of cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular disease epidemiology. Global Health. Risk Prediction
Email: ed303@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Antonis Antoniou
Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Cancer genetic epidemiology, cancer risk modelling, genetic epidemiology of BRCA1, BRCA2 and other cancer susceptibility genes
Email: aca20@cam.ac.uk
Dr William Astle
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Statistical methods with applications in genetics, genomics and haematology
Email: wja24@cam.ac.uk
Professor Kate Baker
Genetics
Topic: Genomics epidemiology of bacterial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance
Email: kb827@cam.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Blagborough
Department of Pathology
Topic: Malaria transmission
Email: amb283@cam.ac.uk
Dr Michael Boemo
Department of Pathology and Department of Genetics
Topic: Developing AI and mathematical models to determine how genome replication and repair can be targeted in cancer and infectious diseases
Email: mb915@cam.ac.uk
Dr Leonardo Bottolo
Department of Medical Genetics
Topic: Computational methods for single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) and single-cell Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (scATAC-seq)
Email: lb664@cam.ac.uk
Dr Soren Brage
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Epidemiology of physical activity behaviour and fitness
Email: soren.brage@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Dr Stephen Burgess
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Genetics and causality
Email: sb452@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Adam Butterworth
Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular disease epidemiology
Email: asb38@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Conlan
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Epidemiology and mathematical modelling
Email: ajkc2@cam.ac.uk
Dr Isidro Cortes-Ciriano
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Cancer Genomics
Email: icortes@ebi.ac.uk
Professor Nik Cunniffe
Plant Sciences
Topic: Modelling the spread, detection, evolution and control of plant pests and pathogens
Email: njc1001@cam.ac.uk
Dr Emanuele Di Angelantonio
Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Prevention of cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular disease epidemiology. Global Health. Risk Prediction.
Email: ed303@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Douglas Easton
Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Genetic epidemiology (especially cancer) and statistical genetics
Email: dfe20@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Tamsin Ford
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Interventional epidemiology - children and young people's mental health
Email: tjf52@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Nita Forouhi
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Nutritional Epidemiology in relation to diabetes and obesity
Email: nita.forouhi@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Professor Chris Gilligan
Department of Plant Sciences
Topic: Epidemiology and modelling
Email: cag1@cam.ac.uk
Dr Nick Goldman
EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Molecular evolution, phylogenetics, comparative genomics data analysis and modelling, statistical computational molecular sequence analysis, algorithms for Next Generation Sequencing
Email: goldman@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Robert Goudie
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Hospital electronic health records for acute care; data integration; Bayesian methods
Email: robert.goudie@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Stefan Gräf
Department of Medicine
Topic: Genetics, genomics and environmental determinants of sex-differences in microvascular health and disease
Email: sg550@cam.ac.uk
Dr Kathryn Hesketh
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Physical activity behaviours during preconception, pregnancy and postpartum; health behaviours and risky play in 0-5-year-olds; health promotion within families with young children
Email: Krh40@cam.ac.uk
Professor Claire Hughes
Department of Psychology (Centre for Family Research)
Topic: Developmental change from age 2 to age 6 and familial predictors
Email: ch288@cam.ac.uk
Dr Stephen Kaptoge
Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Applied statistical methods particularly in relation to chronic disease epidemiology
Email: skk22@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Siddhartha Kar
Oncology
Topic: cancer epidemiology, cancer genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics, clonal haematopoiesis
Email: sk718@cam.ac.uk
Dr Paul Kirk
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Clustering methods for biomarker data
Email: paul.kirk@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Professor Graham Murray
Psychiatry
Topic: Causes, mechanisms and treatments of mental disorder. Psychiatric and brain imaging genetics.
Email: gm285@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jenna Panter
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Physical Activity and Public Health
Email: jenna.panter@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Professor John Perry
Institute of Metabolic Science
Topic: Using human genetic approaches to understand biological mechanisms influencing reproductive ageing and metabolic health
Email: john.perry@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Ms Eqbal Radwan
Biology
Topic: Plant biotechnology, plant molecular biology, nanobiotechnology in plant production
Email: ernp2030@gmail.com
Dr Olivier Restif
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Mathematical models for infectious disease dynamics
Email: or226@cam.ac.uk
Dr Andres Roman-Urrestarazu
Psychiatry
Topic: Public health policy and economics of the global opioid epidemic
Email: aer56@cam.ac.uk
Dr Henrik Salje
Department of Genetics
Topic: Infectious disease dynamics
Email: hs743@cam.ac.uk
Dr Andrea Smith
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Behavoural Epidemiology and interventions in young people
Professor Derek Smith
Department of Zoology
Topic: Evolution of pathogens
Email: d.smith@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Professor Nicholas Thomson
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Bacterial genomics and evolution
Email: nrt@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Brian Tom
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Statistics for stratified medicine
Email: brian.tom@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Alecia-Jane Twigger
Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Topic: Lactation; biosynthesis; mammary gland biology; womens health
Email: ajt215@cam.ac.uk
Dr Esther van Sluijs
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People
Email: esther.vansluijs@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Professor Nicholas Wareham
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Aetiology and Mechanisms of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders of Later Life
Email: nick.wareham@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Dr Varun Warrier
Psychiatry
Topic: Neurodevelopmental conditions, genetics, big data, machine learning/AI, neuroimaging genetics, longitudinal data analyses
Email: vw260@cam.ac.uk
Professor Martin White
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Diet, nutrition, food systems and population health
Email: Martin.White@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Dr Eleanor Winpenny
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: What influences changes in diet, eating behaviours and cardiovascular health through adolescence and early adulthood?
Email: ew470@cam.ac.uk
Dr Angela Wood
Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Biostatistics, Health Data Science, Whole-population Electronic Health Records
Email: amw79@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor James Woodcock
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Built environment, transport, and health
Email: jw745@medschl.cam.ac.uk