Steering Group

Professor Carol Jagger

  • AXA Professor of Epidemiology of Ageing, Newcastle University

Carol Jagger is the AXA Professor of Epidemiology of Ageing at Newcastle University and Deputy Director of the Newcastle University Institute for Ageing (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ageing/). Her research programme spans demography and epidemiology with a focus on mental and physical functioning in ageing. She is the leadiing UK researcher on healthy life expectancy and is a Chartered Scientist, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the Gerontological Society of America and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.