Rebecca Hardy MSc, PhD, FFPH

Rebecca Hardy is a Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics. She joined Loughborough University in 2022, having previously worked at University College London (UCL) where she was appointed Professor in 2012. At UCL she worked at the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing (from 1995 to 2019) and was a senior member of the team responsible for running the MRC National Survey for Health and Development (NSHD), a birth cohort study of men and women born in 1946 and followed ever since. Rebecca became MRC Programme Leader in 2003, running a research programme investigating functional trajectories and cardiovascular ageing based on the analysis of data from the NSHD and other longitudinal population studies. In 2019 she became Director of CLOSER, a research infrastructure funded by the ESRC aiming to maximise the use, value and impact of longitudinal population studies.

Rebecca has a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Sheffield, an MSc in Medical Statistics from the University of Leicester, and she gained her PhD in statistical methods for meta-analysis at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Rebecca is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health by distinction, and she retains an Honorary Professor position at UCL.