Dr Hannah Whittaker is an Inflammation and Immunity Research Fellow based at Imperial College London. She sits on the steering group as an early career researchers (ECR) representative.
Hannah’s expertise lies in working with different types of electronic healthcare data and manipulating large quantities of data. For example, working with data on over 64 million people.
She has a BSc (Hons) from Edinburgh University in biomedical sciences (Pharmacology), an MSc in epidemiology from UCL and a PhD in epidemiology from Imperial College London. Her PhD was on lung function decline in people with COPD.
Hannah’s research interests lie in the sex and gender differences in respiratory disease. She is currently investigating whether sex-related inequalities exist in people living with chronic respiratory diseases.
To do this, she is looking at incidence, exacerbation and mortality rates of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and interstitial lung disease by sex, as well as other inequalities.
This will form the basis of further work which will determine why these inequalities exist and how we can reduce this gap.
