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Catherine graduated in medicine from University of London in 1979. She trained in paediatrics and academic child health in London, gaining her doctorate at the Institute of Child Health, and proceeding to postdoctoral studies in maternal and child health, epidemiology and public health at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, USA.
After returning to the UK in 1987, she held an academic post at the Medical Research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit (now MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit), University of Southampton until 2003, as well as honorary posts in public health medicine at regional and district health authorities and working as a senior medical officer on secondment to the Department of Health. She moved to UCL Institute of Child Health in 2003 as a Reader in Children’s health and to set up a programme of work in research relevant to policy.
She is now Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology in the Population, Policy and Practice Programme and Deputy Director (Strategy and Partnerships) at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. Her research interests are in child public health, particularly physical growth, inequalities in health, and the use of research for public policy. From 2005-2015 she was inaugural Chair of the Public Health Advisory Committee of NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence). From 2008-2014 she was inaugural Programme Director of the National Institute of Health Research’s (NIHR) Public Health Research Programme. She is an NIHR Senior Investigator and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
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