Professor Carol Brayne CBE is Professor of Public Health Medicine in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care in the University of Cambridge. She is Co-Chair of Cambridge Public Health. Her research focuses on the public health of ageing.

Carol is a medically qualified epidemiologist and public health academic.

She graduated in medicine from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London, and went on to train in general medicine. After gaining membership she moved on to training in epidemiology with a Training Fellowship with the Medical Research Council. The research area for this Fellowship was ageing and dementia.

Since the mid eighties her main research area has been longitudinal studies of older people following changes over time in cognition, dementia natural history and associated features with a public health perspective.