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Dr. Caroline Jackson is a Senior Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow in Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh's Usher Institute. She serves as Programme Director for the part-time online MSc Epidemiology program and contributes to teaching on the Masters of Public Health program. Her research focuses on the interplay between mental health and physical conditions, particularly multimorbidity, cardiometabolic disease, and health inequalities related to sex and socioeconomic status. She leads projects using large-scale linked electronic health data and cohort studies to investigate disparities in clinical care and outcomes for people with severe mental illness (SMI).
- Education:
- B.Sc in Immunology (University of Edinburgh, 2000)
- M.Sc in Epidemiology (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 2006)
- PhD in Stroke Epidemiology (University of Edinburgh, 2009)
Her research spans multimorbidity in SMI, disparities in acute cardiac care for myocardial infarction, and the pandemic's impact on cardiovascular disease incidence. She is Deputy Director of the UKRI-funded Hub for Metabolic Psychiatry, leading work on health informatics to model metabolic trajectories in SMI populations. Grants include funding from the Chief Scientist Office Scotland, RCGP Scientific Foundation Board, and British Heart Foundation.
Scientific contributions include over 80 publications and fellowships from the MRC and University of Queensland. She supervises two PhD students and collaborates with multidisciplinary teams across the Cerebrovascular Research Group, CVD-COVID-UK consortium, and Edinburgh Mental Health Network.
