Professor Walters is Director of the Centre for Ageing & Population Studies, UCL

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Her main research interests are in ageing, mental health, public health, primary care epidemiology and trials of complex interventions in primary care and community settings. This includes both epidemiological studies and complex interventions in the fields of health and well-being for older people, disease risk/prevention and mental health. Examples include developing and testing complex interventions to promote well-being and maintain independence in older people with complex needs in primary care and community settings (funded by MRC and the NIHR HTA) and an NIHR Programme Grant to improve personalised care for people with Parkinson's Disease. She is also Co-Lead for the Public Mental Health Programme for the NIHR School of Public Health Research. She is an expert clinical adviser for the NIHR Research Design Service London and the Royal College of General Practitioners, and a Trialist with PRIMENT UK-CRC Registered Clinical Trials Unit, which specialises in trials of complex interventions in primary care and mental health settings. Alongside her academic work, she continues in clinical practice as a General Practitioner in North London.