Dame Carol Elspeth Goodeve Brayne is a British epidemiologist, academic, physician and medical researcher. She is Professor Emeritus and Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Cambridge.
Early life, family and education Brayne received a degree in medicine from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London, in 1981. She subsequently earned a masters of science in epidemiology.
Career Brayne was the Professor of Public Health Medicine at the University of Cambridge from 2001 to 2024. She joined Cambridge in 1985. She has been Chair of Wellcome's Population and Public Health Review Group. She was Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health. She has been a special advisor for the Royal College of Physicians and a senior investigator at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Brayne has worked for the National Health Service. She also spent six months as a visiting fellow in Australia in 1997.
Honours and awards Brayne was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014. In the 2017 Birthday Honours, she was appointed CBE, "[f]or services to Public Health Medicine".
Personal life Brayne and her husband have raised four children.
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