Prof Jenny Mindell

Professor of Public Health

University College London

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Prof Mindell is a public health physician with experience in epidemiological research, teaching, general practice, and health promotion.  She leads the UCL team dealing with the Health Survey for England (HSE).  She is also involved in work across Europe and Latin America to compare health examination surveys and their findings and how these are and can be used by policy-makers.  A major interest is in policies that affect determinant of health and inequalities. She has published many papers in peer-reviewed journals, particularly on cardiovascular disease and its risk factors; transport and health; tobacco control; health impact assessment (HIA); and reports and briefings aimed at a range of audiences.

She is the theme lead for health for UCL's Transport Institute. Prof Mindell was principal investigator of a large cross-research council grant to develop tools to measure community severance at the individual, street, and area level, working with colleagues in UCL's Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering Faculty and the Bartlett Faculty of the built Environment.  She started the Faculty of Public Health's transport and health network, was co-organiser of the first International conference on Transprot and Health (held at UCL July 2015), and is a member of the executive of the Transport and Health Study Group (THSG), leading the work to revise and update its seminal report Health on the Move.  She is Editor-in-chief of the new, award-winning Journal of Transport and Health. In 2019, she will be a visiting Professor at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

 

Before coming to UCL, she was Deputy Director of the London Health Observatory. She has also worked in the Clinical Trials Unit in Oxford and in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Imperial College London. She led a two-year cancer prevention programme in Oxford, where she developed extensive expertise in health promotion, particularly tobacco control, in which she was subsequently involved at a national level, both as a Trustee of ASH, Action on Smoking and Health, and for the Faculty of Public Health.

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Email: j.mindell@ucl.ac.uk

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