Carol Brayne
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Carol Elspeth Goodeve Brayne CBE is a British epidemiologist, academic, physician and medical researcher. Her current position is Professor Emeritus and Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Cambridge.
Brayne received a degree in medicine from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London,[1] in 1981.[2] She subsequently earned a masters of science in epidemiology.[3]
Career
Brayne was the Professor of Public Health Medicine at the University of Cambridge from 2001 to 2024.[3] She joined Cambridge in 1985.[3] She has been Chair of Wellcome's Population and Public Health Review Group.[4] She was Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health.[3] She has been a special advisor for the Royal College of Physicians and a senior investigator at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).[1]
Brayne has worked for the National Health Service.[2] She also spent six months as a visiting fellow in Australia in 1997.[2]
Honors and awards
In the 2017 Birthday Honours,[3] Brayne was appointed CBE, "[f]or services to Public Health Medicine".[4][5]
