Claudia Cooper is Professor of Psychological Medicine at Wolfson Institute of Population Health. She is a consultant old age psychiatrist in East London NHS Foundation Trust memory services. She leads the NIHR/ESRC APPLE-Tree programme (Active Prevention in People at risk of dementia:Lifestyle,bEhaviour change/Technology to REducE cognitive decline), investigating how lifestyle and behavioural change can prevent dementia in older people.
She co-leads an NIHR Dementia and Neurodegenerative diseases Policy Research Unit (Queen Mary) and the new Alzheimer’s Society Integrated Care Doctoral Training programme. From 2018-24, she led the Alzheimer’s Society Centre of Excellence for Independence at home, in which we developed interventions to support people living with dementia at home that we are now testing in implementation studies.
She is a member of the UK Cabinet Office Evaluation Task Force Advice Panel, which advises and supports evaluations of national government programmes and policies; and an NIHR Senior Investigator. She is an honorary research fellow at University of Melbourne.