Professor Charlotte Warren-Gash
Clinical Professor of Epidemiology and Health Data Science
United Kingdom
I am a Professor of Epidemiology and honorary consultant in Public Health Medicine. My research uses large health datasets to investigate causes of disease in older age to inform prevention strategies. I am currently supported by a Wellcome Career Development Award focussed on understanding relationships between infections and brain health as well as through research grants from Open Philanthropy. I lead the Brain Health Group at LSHTM.
I originally qualified in medicine from Edinburgh University and trained in internal medicine in Edinburgh and London hospitals before specialising in public health. I completed an MSc in epidemiology at LSHTM in 2007. My MRC-funded PhD, awarded by UCL in 2013, investigated the role of influenza as a trigger for acute cardiovascular events. After post-doctoral experience as an NIHR clinical lecturer at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics, I joined LSHTM on a Wellcome Intermediate Clinical Fellowship in 2016.
Affiliations
Teaching
I am an Educational Supervisor for the UK Faculty of Public Health training scheme. I am also Deputy Chair of the exam board for the professional certificate in pharmacoepidemiology & pharmacovigilance. I teach on various MSc modules including Extended Epidemiology, Study Design and Advanced Research Methods as well as short courses including Systematic Reviews and meta-analysis. I supervise MSc summer projects and PhD students, with a particular interest in projects related to brain health.
Research
I am also leading a large collaborative project funded by Open Philanthropy to enhance the UK Biobank dataset with additional infectious disease data to enable research into infections and non-communicable disease links.
My other research interests include social and environmental influences on health, health inequalities, vaccine epidemiology and phenotyping methods.
Selected Publications
