Life-course and ageing

Nora Pashayan is a Professor of the Epidemiology of Ageing at the University of Cambridge, Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine at the Cambridge University NHS Foundation Trust, the Director of Training for the International Alliance for Cancer Early Detection (ACED), academic theme lead for epidemiology of MPhil in Population Health Sciences. 

Before joining the Department of Public Health and Primary Care in 2023, Nora was a Professor of Applied Cancer Research and Head of the Research Department of Applied Health Research at University College London. 

Giacomo is a research associate in the Department of Psychology.

Giacomo’s research centres on social inequalities in educational and mental health outcomes in childhood and adolescence. He has a particular interest in psychometrics and data science. Before his post-doctoral appointment, Giacomo completed his PhD at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge.

Xinye Zou is a final-year PhD student at the University of Cambridge, specialising in social medicine and health education. She holds a Master's degree from Harvard University and a BSc from Syracuse University. Her principal areas of research encompass life course studies, socioeconomic determinants of health, health behaviour, health disparities, psychosocial well-being, health education, and healthcare management.

Katia is a clerical assistant and PA to Dr Louise Lafortune and joined CPH in November 2021 to provide administrative support to the team. Katia has an honours degree in International Studies and has worked in Dublin for the Employment Services Support Unit assisting in policy development and in organising events, conferences and group visits at both national and international levels.

Andy has worked at the University since 2011 on a variety of research projects including the CanTest Collaborative, DACHA (Developing resources And minimum data set for Care Homes’ Adoption), EPIC (European Prospective Investigation in Cancer), the Hospice at Home Evaluation and on a series of systematic reviews on frailty, dementia and disability for NICE and Public Health England. He is presently working on an Age-Friendly Community (AFCC) project using a Social Return on Investment (SROI) framework.

Calum is a Research Associate at Cambridge Public Health. His research has focused on ageing, in particular, age-friendly communities and their facilitators and barriers. This work has included leading on systematic reviews and qualitative and quantitative research methods. This work includes the evaluation of Age-friendly Cities and Communities, examining the experiences of older people in rehoming schemes and looking at the relationship between local planning laws and age-friendly rural communities in England.

Caroline has been a researcher across a variety of policy areas, including public health, mental health, employment, education, and childcare. With experience across the range of research methodologies, she favours qualitative approaches, and is interested in participatory methods.

Dr Joyce Coker is a Research Associate at Cambridge Public Health. She has a background in Human Physiology and Public Health. During her PhD (University of Leeds, 2015), she used a mixed method approach to examine the influence of statin-use on the health beliefs and health behaviours of adults at risk of cardiovascular disease in South Yorkshire, England and in urban and semi-urban cities in Nigeria.