Academic Public Health Registrar
MRC Human Nutrition and Bone Research Group, University of Cambridge, UK
Vickie Braithwaite PhD: I am an Academic Public Health Registrar training in the East of England and at the MRC Nutrition and Bone Research Group and MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge. In 2009 I completed my BSc in Biochemistry at the University of St Andrews at which point I moved to the University of Cambridge to undertake a PhD in Nutrition and Bone at MRC Human Nutrition Research. My PhD was based between Cambridge and The Gambia where I conducted field work aiming to better understand the aetiology of rickets in local children. I subsequently obtained an MRC funded post-doctoral position to work on Exome Chip genetic data at the London School of Tropical Medicine. Following this, in 2014, I became a Career Development Fellow at the MRC HNR and a fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge to continue my work on nutritional bone disease. This fellowship allowed me to investigate the role of nutrition (iron, phosphate, vitamin D and calcium) on bone disease in pregnant mothers and their infants, in children and in patient groups based in Malawi, Kenya, Bangladesh and closer to home in the UK and Austria.
