Daisy Fancourt
Associate Professor, Behavioural Science and Health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health, UCL (UK)
Dr. Daisy Fancourt is Associate Professor of Psychobuilogy & Epidemiology and Wellcome Research Fellow in the Psychobiology Group, Department of Behavioarl Science & Health at UCL. Her research focuses on the effects of social factors on health, including loneliness, social isolation, social & community assets, arts and cultural engagement, and social prescribing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Daisy is leading a team running the UK’s largest study into the psychological and social impact of the virus, providing weekly data to government, the World Health Organization, and hundreds of community and third sector organizations (www.covidsocialstudy.org). She is also leading the COVID-MINDS Network, an international network of longitudinal studies exploring the global mental health impact of the pandemic (www.covidminds.org). Daisy has received awards for her research from the British Science Association, Leverhulme Trust, Wellcome Trust, British Academy, British Federation of Women Graduates, American Psychosomatic Society, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Royal Society for Public Health and NHS England, as well as being named a BBC New Generation Thinker and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper.