University College London
Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness
Torrington Place
London
England
Biographical Sketch: Susan Michie did her undergraduate and postgraduate training in experimental and developmental psychology at the University of Oxford and her clinical psychology training at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. She is a chartered clinical and health psychologist, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the European Health Psychology Society and the British Psychological Society.
Susan Michie leads the Health Psychology Research Group at UCL studying behaviour change in relation to health: how to understand it theoretically and how to develop more effective interventions. Her work develops methods to advance the study of behaviour change e.g. for specifying the content and theoretical underpinning of interventions and for synthesising evidence. This is conducted in the domains of professional practice and implementation, and risky and preventive behaviours amongst patients and the general population.
She is co-Director of the UK’s National Health Service’s Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training and a consultant to the Department of Health advising on public health policy and practice. She is a member of the Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee of NICE (National Institute of Clinical and Health Excellence), and of its Implementation Strategy Group. She chairs the Behaviour and Communications Group of the UK Government’s Scientific Pandemic Influenza Advisory Committee. Her editorial work includes Associate Editor of the Annals of Behavioral Medicine and of the British Journal of Health Psychology and Editorial Boards of Implementation Science and Health Psychology Review.
She holds over 20 research grants and has published 150 peer-reviewed journal articles.
Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/health-psychology/pages/michie.htm