Rate My Professor Carla Toro

Carla Toro is an Associate Professor at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick. She currently serves as Deputy Pro-Dean (Research) within the school and as Deputy Director of the Warwick Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing Research. Additionally, she is the Assessment Lead for the Digital Healthcare Sciences BSc programme. Toro earned her BSc (Hons) in Neuroscience from the University of Nottingham and her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Manchester. After completing her PhD, she worked as a Research Fellow at the Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit at the University of Manchester.

Her academic interests centre on neuroscience, digital mental health, and wellbeing, with particular emphasis on developing and testing interventions to address mental health issues in professional and educational environments. Toro's research has explored digital cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for managing insomnia and improving emotion regulation among workers, as well as the feasibility of online brief CBT for eating disorders in school settings. Notable publications include "Digital cognitive behavioural therapy intervention in the workplace for insomnia and emotion regulation: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial" (BMJ Open, 2022), "Effects of a hybrid digital cognitive–behavioural therapy for insomnia and emotion regulation in the workplace: a cluster-randomised controlled trial" (SLEEP, 2022), "Evidence for feasibility of implementing online brief cognitive behavioural therapy for eating disorders in schools" (International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2023), and "The Effectiveness of Serious Games for Alleviating Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis" (JMIR Serious Games, 2022). She has also co-authored policy briefs on the relationship between work, jobs, and common mental health problems, and highlighted the £41 billion annual economic cost of poor job quality to the UK economy. Toro contributes to NIHR initiatives such as Creating Healthy Jobs and efforts to embed research staff wellbeing into institutional research culture.