Fiona Wood MSc, PhD

Fiona Wood is a reader in the Division of Population Medicine within the Medical School at Cardiff University. She has worked in Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences and as a researcher in public health in the National Health Service. She is a medical sociologist with a particular interest in beliefs and behaviors relating to common infections, patient-centered care, and health-care communication. In more than 15 years of postdoctoral research, Ms. Wood has developed wide-ranging expertise in health beliefs and qualitative research methods. She has supervised dissertations on topics including public attitudes to common infections and antibiotics and managing common infections in day-care settings.