Jean Adams

Jean Adams is an epidemiologist and Professor of Dietary Public Health at the MRC Epidemiology Unit based at the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on population-level influences on dietary public health, and interventions to improve such health.

Education Adams earned a PGCert in Science Communication from the University of the West of England in 2012; a MSc in 2007 at the City, University of London in Health Psychology; in 2004, a Ph.D. at Newcastle University in Epidemiology and Public Health and a MBBS there in 2001 as well as a BMedSci in Health Psychology and Psychiatry in 1998. She helped form the Dietary Public Health group, was appointed Programme Leader in the Population Health Interventions unit in 2020 and Professor in 2022.