Katherine Brown University of Hertfordshire, UK

Katherine Brown is Professor of Behaviour Change in Health at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, where she established the Public Health and Applied Behaviour Change Laboratory (PHAB Lab) currently comprised of 10 staff and 5 PhD students. She has more than twenty years’ experience of developing and evaluating behaviour change interventions in public health contexts. She spent eight years of her career working within the public health department of an English local authority alongside leading an academic research team. Her expertise spans a range of public health issues including sexual health, obesity, smoking cessation, breastfeeding, gender-based violence and applications of behaviour change science in public health. She has more than 90 peer-reviewed papers and has secured research funding in excess of £12 million from a number of quality research funders including the European Commission and the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). She is currently Chief Investigator of one of ten national Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Teams (PHIRSTs) funded by NIHR and co-Chief investigator of the NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) funded Halo trial.