Carol Elspeth Goodeve Brayne CBE is a British epidemiologist, academic, physician and medical researcher. Her current position is Professor Emeritus and Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Cambridge.
Brayne received a degree in medicine from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London, [1] in 1981. [2] She subsequently earned a masters of science in epidemiology. [3]
Brayne was the Professor of Public Health Medicine at the University of Cambridge from 2001 to 2024. [3] She joined Cambridge in 1985. [3] She has been Chair of Wellcome's Population and Public Health Review Group. [4] She was Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health. [3] She has been a special advisor for the Royal College of Physicians and a senior investigator at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). [1]
Brayne has worked for the National Health Service. [2] She also spent six months as a visiting fellow in Australia in 1997. [2]
In the 2017 Birthday Honours, [3] Brayne was appointed CBE, "[f]or services to Public Health Medicine". [4] [5]
Brayne and her husband have raised four children. [2]