Miranda Wolpert

Miranda Wolpert, Lady Sales is professor of evidence-based practice and mental health at University College London. She was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours for her work on young people's mental health. She is Director of Mental Health at the Wellcome Trust.

Early life and education Wolpert is the daughter of developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert. She studied history at the University of Cambridge. She earned her master's degree in history at the University of Surrey, before starting a diploma in clinical psychology. Wolpert joined University College London in 2005. The centre is a collaboration between University College London and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. She leads the University College London Children's Policy Research Unit Mental Health strand, which advises the Government of the United Kingdom. After Jeremy Hunt claimed that Child and Young People's Mental Health Services as "the biggest single area of weakness in NHS provision at the moment", Wolpert called for research into whether all provision is effective. She also called for more research into the impact of screen time on young people's mental health.

She serves as national informatics lead for the NHS England Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies. In March 2019 Wolpert was made head of the Wellcome Trust Priority Area in Mental Health. In this capacity, she will invest over £200 million in initiatives that transform the lives of young people with mental health conditions. She has written for the HuffPost.

She is married to the judge Lord Sales.

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