Kathryn R. Martin PhD, MPH, FHEA

Dr. Kathryn R. Martin, Ph.D., MPH, FHEA graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA with a BA in Sociology and a Certificate in Gerontology studies from the Colleges of Worcester Consortium. Kathryn Martin then earned a Master of Public Health with a focus on chronic disease epidemiology from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Health Behavior and Health Education from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

After completing a Ph.D., Kathryn Martin was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which was jointly sponsored by the Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing in London. Through this fellowship, Kathryn Martin focused on the effect of midlife exposures on the risk of knee osteoarthritis in early old age whilst working in London on the National Survey of Health and Development (aka the 1946 British Birth Cohort) and methodologies for objectively measuring physical activity using accelerometers in older adults in the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences at the NIH/NIA.

Kathryn Martin joined the University of Aberdeen in 2013 and joined Academic Primary Care in 2019 after being with the Epidemiology Group. Kathryn Martin leads a program of research that focuses on physical activity, arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions (including chronic pain) and aging research.