Mary-Kate Hannah

Mary-Kate Hannah (nee McCluskey) graduated in 1988 with a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Strathclyde. She then went on to obtain an MSc by research in Mathematical Biology from the University of Dundee (1992). From 1994 until 1999 she worked as a data analyst and programmer for the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee where she was involved with the Scottish Heart Health Study and the World Health Organisation MONICA Project. During that time she obtained a diploma in Epidemiology from the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians.

In 1999 Mary-Kate joined the Medical Research Council as a data analyst for the Twenty-07 Study and has worked on a variety of analyses with researchers both within and outside the Unit on topics including physical activity, Secretory Immunoglobulin A and the BEM sex-role inventory.  She is now data scientist for the Twenty-07 Study developing and managing the  research data collected over 20 years and supporting its use by internal and external researchers. She is also undertaking statistical analyses in collaboration with researchers and has recently been investigating how common mental disorder predicts mortality.