Cathie Sudlow

Professor Cathie Sudlow is Head of the School of Population Health Sciences and Director of the Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh's College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. She concurrently serves as Director of the UKRI Adolescent Health Study. Previously, she held leadership positions at Health Data Research UK (2018-2024) and the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre, where she pioneered England's first trusted research environment for population health data.

Her research focuses on large-scale health data science, epidemiology, and translational neurology, particularly in stroke, dementia, and cardiovascular disease. She employs innovative data linkage methodologies across biobanks (e.g., UK Biobank) and national health datasets to enable population-level insights into disease mechanisms and healthcare delivery.

Honors include an OBE for medical research (2020), fellowships at the Academy of Medical Sciences and Royal Society of Edinburgh, and recognition as Honorary Fellow of Health Data Research UK. She leads multidisciplinary teams across the UKRI Adolescent Health Study and previously directed the University's Centre for Medical Informatics (2017-2019), expanding it from 30 to 100+ staff.