Dr Geraldine Barrett is a social scientist who has worked in public health/health services research since the early 1990s. Dr Barrett’s first degree was in Sociology and Social Policy in 1991, followed by a post as a research officer in Department of Public Health at Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority and a Masters degree in Medical Sociology. She then moved to the Department of Public Health Sciences at St George’s Hospital Medical School, and then onto the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with an MRC special training fellowship in health services research in 1998. She completed her PhD in public health in 2002 which, in developing the “London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy”, combined her interests in women’s reproductive health, social science and methodological research. She moved to Brunel University as a lecturer in 2003, becoming a senior lecturer in 2006. She joined UCL Institute for Women’s Health in January 2017.