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Postgraduate School of Life Sciences

 

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

 

Principal Investigators in this theme:


Name: Professor Jean Adams
Topic: Diet & public health; population interventions; public health policy
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: jma79@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/jean-adams/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Amy Ahern
Topic: Development and evaluation of behavioural interventions for obesity and diabetes; Understanding the determinants of initiation and maintenance of health behaviour change in obesity and diabetes
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: ala34@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/amy-ahern/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Emanuele Di Angelantonio
Topic: Prevention of cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular disease epidemiology. Global Health. Risk Prediction
Themes:Epidemiology and Public Health,
Department: Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care
Email: ed303@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/ceu-group/ceu-senior-academic-staff/ema...
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Antonis Antoniou
Topic: Cancer genetic epidemiology, cancer risk modelling, genetic epidemiology of BRCA1, BRCA2 and other cancer susceptibility genes
Themes: Cancer, Epidemiology and Public Health, Women's Health
Department: Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Email: aca20@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://ccge.medschl.cam.ac.uk/antonis-antoniou/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr William Astle
Topic: Statistical methods with applications in genetics, genomics and haematology
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: MRC Biostatistics Unit
Email: wja24@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/people/in-alphabetical-order/a-to-g/willia...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Prof/Ass Prof Kate Baker Topic: Genomics epidemiology of bacterial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Genetics
Email: kb827@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://baker-lab.github.io/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jessica Barrett
Topic: Multiple outcome modelling
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Biostatistics Unit
Email: jessica.barrett@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/people/in-alphabetical-order/a-to-g/jessic...
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Andrew Blagborough
Topic: Malaria transmission
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: amb283@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/andrew-blagborough
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Leonardo Bottolo
Topic: Computational methods for single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) and single-cell Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (scATAC-seq)
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Medical Genetics
Email: lb664@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://medgen.medschl.cam.ac.uk/dr-leonardo-bottolo/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Soren Brage
Topic: Epidemiology of physical activity behaviour and fitness
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: soren.brage@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/soren-brage/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Stephen Burgess
Topic: Genetics and causality
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Biostatistics Unit
Email: sb452@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/people/in-alphabetical-order/a-to-g/stephe...
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Adam Butterworth
Topic: Genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular disease epidemiology
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Email: asb38@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/ceu-group/ceu-senior-academic-staff/ada...
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Andrew Conlan
Topic: Epidemiology and mathematical modelling
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: ajkc2@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/ajkc2@cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Isidro Cortes-Ciriano
Topic: Cancer Genomics
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics,
Department: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: icortes@ebi.ac.uk
Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/cortes-ciriano
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nik Cunniffe
Topic: Modelling the spread, detection, evolution and control of plant pests and pathogens.
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Plant Sciences
Email: njc1001@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/cunniffe-nik
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor John Danesh
Topic: Molecular and genetic epidemiology of coronary heart disease
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Email: johndaneshpa@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/ceu-group/ceu-senior-academic-staff/pro...
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Prof Daniela De Angelis
Topic: Evidence synthesis to inform health
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: MRC Biostatistics Unit
Email: daniela.deangelis@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/people/in-alphabetical-order/a-to-g/daniel...
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Alison Dunning
Topic: High-throughput laboratory processes for genetic epidemiology and fine-scale mapping of genetic loci
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Email: amd24@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/centre-for-cancer-genetic-epidemiology-...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Robbie Duschinsky
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
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour,
Department: Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Email: rd522@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/pcu-group/pcu-senior-academic-staff/rob...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Douglas Easton
Topic: Genetic epidemiology (especially cancer) and statistical genetics
Themes: Cancer, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Women's Health
Department: Public Health and Primary Care
Email: dfe20@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/centre-for-cancer-genetic-epidemiology...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Tamsin Ford
Topic: Interventional epidemiology - children and young people's mental health
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Psychiatry
Email: tjf52@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://dev.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nita Forouhi
Topic: Nutritional Epidemiology in relation to diabetes and obesity
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: nita.forouhi@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/research-areas/nutrition
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Chris Gilligan
Topic: Epidemiology and modelling
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: cag1@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/chrisgilligan
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nick Goldman
Topic: theoretical molecular evolution, comparative genomics data analysis and modelling, statistical computational molecular sequence analysis, algorithms for Next Generation Sequencing
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells,
Department: EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: goldman@ebi.ac.uk
Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/goldman/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Simon Griffin
Topic: Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: Public Health and Primary Care
Email: https://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/pcu-group/pcu-senior-academic-staff/si...
Website: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/research-areas/prevention-high-ri...
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Kathryn Hesketh
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
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: Krh40@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/kathryn-hesketh/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Claire Hughes
Topic: Developmental change from age 2 to age 6 and familial predictors
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Psychology (Centre for Family Research)
Email: ch288@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.cfr.cam.ac.uk/directory/ClaireHughes
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kerry Jones
Topic: NIHR Cambridge BRC Nutritional Biomarker Laboratory
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: Kerry.Jones@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/kerry-jones/
orry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Peter Jones
Topic: Epidemiology etiology and developmental dimensions of psychiatric disorders; schizophrenia and the psychoses
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Psychiatry
Email: pbj21@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?pbj21
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Stephen Kaptoge
Topic: Applied statistical methods particularly in relation to chronic disease epidemiology
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Email: skk22@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/ceu-group/ceu-senior-research-staff/ste...
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome

Name: Dr Siddhartha Kar
Topic: cancer epidemiology, cancer genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics, clonal haematopoiesis
Themes: Cancer, Women's Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Oncology
Email: sk718@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.earlycancer.cam.ac.uk/dr-siddhartha-kar
Applications from potential students are welcome

Name: Dr Paul Kirk
Topic: Clustering methods for biomarker data
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Biostatistics Unit
Email: paul.kirk@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/people/in-alphabetical-order/h-to-m/paul-k...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Louise Lafortune
Topic: Healthy ageing, dementia, frailty, community assets, evaluations
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: Psychiatry
Email: ll394@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.iph.cam.ac.uk/nihr-sphr/about/team/dr-louise-lafortune/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Samuel Lambert
Topic: Multimorbidity involving cardiometabolic diseases; molecular and genetic epidemiology; polygenic [risk] scores; risk prediction; open-science tools and resources
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Email: sl925@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-samuel-lambert
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Jonathan Mant
Topic: screening for atrial fibrillation
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: Public Health & Primary Care
Email: jm677@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/pcu-group/pcu-senior-academic-staff/jo...
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Ken Ong
Topic: Childhood obesity, growth and development, and relationships to adult metabolic disease
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit / Department of Paediatrics
Email: ken.ong@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/ken-ong/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Jenna Panter
Topic: Physical Activity and Public Health
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: jenna.panter@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/jenna-panter/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor John Perry
Topic: Using human genetic approaches to understand biological mechanisms influencing reproductive ageing and metabolic health
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Molecules and Cells, Women's Health
Department: Institute of Metabolic Science
Email: john.perry@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/john-perry/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Ms Eqbal Radwan
Topic: Plant biotechnology, plant molecular biology, nanobiotechnology in plant production
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Biology
Email: ernp2030@gmail.com
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=J8Iu9SYAAAAJ&hl=en
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Olivier Restif
Topic: Mathematical models for infectious disease dynamics
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: or226@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/or226@cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Prof Sylvia Richardson
Topic: Statistical Genomics and High Dimensional Data
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Biostatistics Unit
Email: sylvia.richardson@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/people/in-alphabetical-order/n-to-s/sylvia...
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome

Name: Dr Andres Roma-Urrestarazu
Topic: Public health policy and economics of the global opioid epidemic
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: Psychiatry
Email: aer56@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/about-us/person/andres-roman-urre...
Applications from potential students are welcome

Name: Dr Henrik Salje
Topic: Infectious disease dynamics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: hs743@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Andrea Smith
Topic: Behavoural Epidemiology and interventions in young people
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email:
Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/andrea-smith/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Derek Smith
Topic: Evolution of pathogens
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: d.smith@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/derek-smith
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Stephen Sutton
Topic: Risk communication and health behaviour change
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Email: srs34@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/pcu-group/pcu-senior-academic-staff/ste...
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Nicholas Thomson
Topic: Bacterial genomics and evolution
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: nrt@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/thomson-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Brian Tom
Topic: Statistics for stratified medicine
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Biostatistics Unit
Email: brian.tom@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/people/in-alphabetical-order/t-to-z/brian-...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Caroline Trotter
Topic: Epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases and the impact of immunisation
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: clt56@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/clt56@cam.ac.uk
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Nigel Unwin
Topic: Sustainable food systems and planetary health
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: ncu21@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/nigel-unwin/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Esther van Sluijs
Topic: Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: esther.vansluijs@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/research-areas/behavioural-epidem...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Nicholas Wareham
Topic: Aetiology and Mechanisms of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders of Later Life
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: nick.wareham@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/research-areas/aetiology-of-diabe...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Martin White
Topic: Diet, nutrition, food systems and population health
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: Martin.White@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/martin-white/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Eleanor Winpenny
Topic: What influences changes in diet, eating behaviours and cardiovascular health through adolescence and early adulthood?
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: ew470@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/eleanor-winpenny/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Angela Wood
Topic: Biostatistics
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Email: amw79@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/ceu-group/ceu-senior-academic-staff/ang...
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor James Woodcock
Topic: Built environment, transport, and health
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: jw745@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/james-woodcock/
Applications from potential students are welcome

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