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Dr Wendy Ewart
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Dr Wendy Ewart: Wendy Ewart studied at the University of Southampton and at the University of Bristol where she received her PhD in Neuroscience.
She was appointed to an academic position at Queen Mary, University of London (formerly the London Hospital Medical College) where she was a senior lecturer in Physiology and also Deputy Director of the Gastrointestinal Research Unit.
Dr Ewart joined the staff of the Wellcome Trust in 1991 and was responsible for managing funding programmes including neuroscience and mental health and until 2003 headed the Trust's funding programme in health and population science in the developing world.
She also was a non executive director of an acute NHS Trust for 7 years completing her service over the final year as Chair.
From 2003 Dr Ewart was Head of Research Strategy at the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College where she was responsible for developing and implementing a new faculty research strategy.
Dr Ewart was appointed to the Medical Research Council in August 2008, where she is responsible for strategic planning, international strategy and evaluation and a member of the MRC's senior management team.
Dr Ewart also currently chairs the Scientific Advisory Committee of the INDEPTH Network of demographic surveillance sites.