Cat is an Academic Consultant in Public Health Medicine at the Institute for Global Health at UCL and Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine at the UKHSA and the Met office. She is also honorary lecturer at KCL and the George Institute for Global Health at Imperial College London. She has an NIHR advanced fellowship to investigate risk factors for heat-related hospital admission and mortality in England. She completed medical school in Portugal in 2012 and moved to the UK inspired by her dream of working for the NHS. Although she initially started her specialty training in Cardiothoracic Surgery in Manchester, her long-term illness forced a sharp turn in her career. She completed her DPhil in the University of Oxford, simultaneously with an MSc in Public Health at KCL. She completed her specialty training in Public Health first as NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow at KCL and NIHR Clinical Lecture at UCL. She has an insatiable curiosity and broad research interests, which explains why she has been involved in many different types of research over the years. She has finally committed to her two passions: environment/climate & health and gender inequalities. She co-leads the implementation of the Climate & Health Strategy with the Climate & Health Committee of the Faculty of Public Health and co-chairs the Academic Public Health Special Interest Group, which she founded in 2022.

Teaching

Cat is a teacher on the course: Online MSc Public Health.