Lindsay Hogg

Lindsay joined the Understandings and Uses of Public Health Research team in October 2011, from London where she was Assistant Director for the charity Sense About Science. She graduated with a BSc in Genetics from the University of Edinburgh and went on to do an MSc from The Open University in science communication and public understanding of science. She has worked in public engagement with science, developing educational activities including shows, websites, workshops, exhibits and games since 2001. She will be working with the rest of the team to identify opportunities for engaging the public with population health science.

Currently, Lindsay is working on a project called ‘Telling good population health science from bad population health science’. The project aims to find out if there is a need for a toolkit to make assessing health research evidence easier; and if so to develop the toolkit. It is a PHSRN funded project and is a collaboration with Professor Dame Sally Macintyre and Dr Shona Hilton from SPHSU, and Professor Susan Jebb (MRC HNR), Professor Mark Petticrew (LSHTM) and Dr David Ogilvie (MRC Epidemiology Unit).