Caroline Kamau-Mitchell

Dr. Caroline Kamau-Mitchell is a Reader in Occupational Health at Birkbeck Business School, Birkbeck, University of London. Her research focuses on occupational health challenges faced by medical professionals, including the impact of illnesses and mental disorders on their return to work. She has influenced UK policy through parliamentary legislation changes and NHS practices, notably improving occupational health support in hospitals like Royal Berkshire and Barts Health NHS Trust. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, she leads Birkbeck's Brainstorming Grants Group (BGG), hosting global academic pioneers. Her work is widely cited in top journals and has been featured in The Guardian, Times, and BBC.

Her research interests include workplace safety for healthcare workers, mental health in medical professions, and the societal impact of conditions like long-COVID. She supervises doctoral students exploring topics such as ambulance care management and workplace factors affecting patient care quality. Her recent publications address violence prevention in healthcare and global healthcare worker harassment.

Awarded for her contributions to medical research, Dr. Kamau-Mitchell also emphasizes science communication, as seen in her Nature article on media training's role in amplifying research impact. She is authoring a third book, continuing her prolific output of two previous books and numerous peer-reviewed articles.