How I’m building a career researching inequalities in chronic disease

Dr Hannah Whittaker is a Health Data Research UK-funded early career research fellow working in electronic healthcare records at the Imperial School of Public Health. Here she talks about her career journey, and her more recent work focusing on inequalities in chronic respiratory disease.

I’ve always been interested in the sciences. I did my undergraduate degree in biomedical sciences and spent my summers working in labs, so I initially thought that was the direction I would take.

But I took a bit of a chance and went on to do an MSc in social epidemiology, which really kickstarted my interest in understanding how diseases develop and progress, and the different factors that influence who develops a disease and who experiences poorer outcomes.

Read Hannah's blog post on HDR UK's website: How I’m building a career researching inequalities in chronic disease.

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