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- Professor of Lifecourse Epidemiology
- Epidemiology & Public Health
- Institute of Epidemiology & Health
- Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
Yvonne gained her BSc in Biological Sciences in 1992 after which
she travelled extensively in the US, Australia and Asia. She was awarded her
PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Liverpool in 1997 and worked as a
Research Fellow in Aintree Hospitals Trust before moving to Epidemiology and
Public Health at UCL in 1998. During her early years at UCL she was involved in
setting up the Millennium Cohort Study. She joined the International Centre for
Lifecourse Studies (ICLS) research group at its inception in 2008, and is now
the Director of ICLS which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.


- Improving understanding about the causes and consequences of socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in health with particular attention to the underlying pathways and the processes at play.
- Understanding influences on young people’s mental health including the potential role of digital technologies
- The influences of family and broader social contexts for healthy development in childhood including obesity, socioemotional wellbeing and cognitive performance.
Yvonne’s teaching roles include
postgraduate research, postgraduate taught programmes and undergraduate
courses. She is Director of the multidisciplinary ESRC-BBSRC Soc-B Centre for
Doctoral Training in Biosocial Research which has been running since 2017.
Soc-B is led by UCL in partnership with University of Manchester and University
of Essex. Yvonne supervises several PhD students from a variety of academic
backgrounds across the social and biological sciences. She co-leads the Social
Determinants of Health module on the BSc Population Health degree, and teaches
a range of topics including ethnicity and health, lifecourse health and early
childhood health and development, on masters level degree programmes in
addition to dissertation supervision.
1997 | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Liverpool | |
1992 | Bachelor of Science (Honours) | University of Salford |