Autor: Carver Catherine Carver

Catherine Carver completed her first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge before going on to study Medicine at the University of Aberdeen, which featured some time spent in Tanzania working with TB/HIV sufferers. After a period on the wards in the UK as a junior doctor, Catherine moved into public health, and joined the Wellcome Trust, running a portfolio of multimillion pound public health grants from all over the world. In 2012 she secured a Frank Knox Fellowship, and currently studies public health policy at Harvard University. Catherine is a seasoned science communicator, and has written blogs for The Lancet, Scientific American, Meducation and The Wellcome Trust, and she was shortlisted for the Guardian“s 2012 Science Writing Prize.