JOB TITLE:  Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Leicester Nuffield Research Unit

EMAIL ADDRESS:  cxj@le.ac.uk

Telephone number:  (0116) 252 3211

ADDRESS:

Leicester Nuffield Research Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, 22-28 Princess Road West, Leicester  LE1 6TP

RESEARCH

My research crosses the interface between demography and epidemiology of ageing with a particular focus on healthy active life expectancy and its use to monitor population ageing.

I lead the Healthy Active Life Expectancy, Disability and Survival Theme Group of the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study, co-lead (with the University of Montpellier and the Belgian Institute of Public Health) the European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU) and am a member of the Steering Group of the International Network on Health Expectancy and the Disability Process (REVES).

More recently I have begun to develop a simulation model to forecast the future burden of disability through changing patterns of disease.  An early version of this appeared as a background paper to the Wanless Review of Social Care 'Securing Good Care for Older People: Taking a long-term view' (available at http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/resources/publications/appendices_to.html).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health
Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America
Member of MRC College of Experts Health Services and Public Health Research Board
Associate Editor of Age and Ageing
Editorial Board of Chronic Respiratory Disease
Deputy Chair of the EU Task Force on Health Expectancy

For a list of publications since 2000 click here