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Kirsten Rennie is a Senior Research Associate at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine. She leads physical activity measurement development for the Measurement Platform and secondary care studies in the Diet and Physical Activity Interventions programme. She also holds an honorary research contract with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a Public Health Academic Contract with the Department of Health and Social Care, and is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Health Systems Design research group at the Department of Engineering.
She earned a MA in Biological Anthropology (1995), MPhil in Epidemiology (1997), and PhD in physical activity epidemiology (2000) from the University of Cambridge. She is a UK registered nutritionist (Association for Nutrition, Public Health specialty).
Her research integrates remote monitoring technologies like apps and wearables into population-based and patient studies to improve clinical pathways and health outcomes. She specializes in using physical activity patterning to identify individuals at risk of adverse health outcomes, with applications spanning metabolic diseases, weight management, and public health interventions.
Kirsten supervises Masters and PhD students and teaches on the MSt Healthcare Innovation Programme. Current projects include WARD-W (renal disease monitoring), COBALT (kidney transplant activity tracking), Fenland Study (population-based remote data collection), CREATE-C (colorectal cancer activity program), Fenland COVID-19 study (telehealth monitoring), and CAVA study (dried blood spot analysis).
With extensive experience across academia and industry—including MRC Human Nutrition Research, Unilever, UCL, and University of Ulster—she pioneered objective physical activity measurements in large-scale epidemiological studies and lifestyle intervention evaluations.
