Dr Michelle Byford

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Daphne Jackson Fellow at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Preventive Neurology Unit, Queen Mary University of London.

Name: Dr Michelle Byford
Field: Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Social Sciences

Specialisms:

Public health
Neurology
Epidemiology
Clinical research

Research and qualifications:

BSc in Biochemistry from Rhodes University, South Africa
MSc in Neuroscince from the University of Oxford
MPhil in Epidemiology and public health from the University of Cambridge
PhD in Epidemiology and public health from University College London
Epidemiologist and Study manager in Public Health at University College London

Returning to her research after a 5 -year break, Michelle’s Fellowship is entitled: “Social determinants of dementia risk across the life course: causality, genetic interactions and neural mechanisms”. Michelle’s research explores how social factors impact the risk of developing dementia with the goals of identifying particular risk factors.

Host

Queen Mary University of London

Funders

Queen Mary University of London

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