Professor Susan Michie

Susan Michie is Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London. Her research focuses on behaviour change in relation to health and the environment: how to understand it theoretically and apply theory to intervention development, evaluation and implementation.

She served as an expert advisor on the UK’s Covid-19 Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behavioural Science (part of SAGE) and the Lancet’s Covid-19 Commission. She is part of the Behavioural Science Policy Research Unit at the National Institute for Health Research advising the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care. She chaired the Academy of Social Science’s ‘Health of People’ project and the Academy of Medical Science’s project on systems approaches to health.  She is a member of WHO’s Working Group on Research Methodology for Public Health and Social Measures and its Guideline Development Group on Hand Hygiene in Community Settings.