Rate My Professor Anne McMunn

Anne McMunn's research employs a life course epidemiological framework to investigate social determinants of health, including workplace wellbeing, quality of working life, family care, and health equity. She is Co-Director of the ESRC-funded Equalise: Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity and a founding member of the ESRC International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health (ICLS) and the ESRC-BBSRC Soc-B Centre for Doctoral Training in Biosocial Research. She co-leads the Faculty of Population Health Sciences' strategy on Health Equity and has contributed to major longitudinal studies, including the establishment of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), serving as UCL lead on the Scottish Health Survey. Her influential publications include 'Loneliness, social isolation, and behavioral and biological health indicators in older adults' (Shankar et al., 2011), cited over 1,500 times; 'Social isolation and loneliness: relationships with cognitive function during 4 years of follow-up in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing' (Shankar et al., 2013), with 882 citations; 'Social isolation and loneliness: Prospective associations with functional status in older adults' (Shankar et al., 2017); and 'Gender differences in unpaid care work and psychological distress in the UK Covid-19 lockdown' (Xue & McMunn, 2021). Her work has significantly advanced understanding of health inequalities across the lifecourse.