ELSA Team

National Centre for Social Research Operations Department

250 Interviewers and 80 nurses
Over 50 staff in the Logistics Unit, Data Unit, Field Management Unit and Freelance Resources Units
Pauline Burge, Senior Project Co-ordinator

Collaborating Institutions

National Centre for Social Research
University College London, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Institute for Fiscal Studies
University of Manchester, School of Social Science
University of Oxford, Department of Clinical Geratology
University of Nottingham, School of Economics
University of East Anglia
University of Exeter

Principal Investigator

The principal investigator for ELSA is Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, and Director of the International Centre for Health and Society, UCL.

Management Group (and Scientific Team)

James Banks, Institute for Fiscal Studies and Department of Economics, UCL
Sam Clemens, National Centre for Social Research
Carli Lessof, National Centre for Social Research
Michael Marmot, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
James Nazroo, School of Social Science, University of Manchester
Zoe Oldfield, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Nina Rogers, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
Andrew Steptoe, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
Kate Taylor, National Centre for Social Research

Scientific Team

Margaret Blake, National Centre for Social Research
Elizabeth Breeze, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
Panos Demakakos, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
David Hussey, National Centre for Social Research
Meena Kumari, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
Anne McMunn, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
Zoe Oldfield, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Ian Simpson, National Centre for Social Research
Gemma Tetlow, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Kelly Ward, National Centre for Social Research
Natasha Wood, National Centre for Social Research
Paola Zaninotto, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL

Administrator

Sheema Ahmed, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL

Consultants

Melanie Bartley, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
David Blane, Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College, London
Axel Börsch-Supan, Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Ageing, Mannheim University
Richard Disney, Institute for Fiscal Studies and School of Economics, University of Nottingham
Paul Higgs, Centre for Behavioural and Social Sciences, UCL
Mike Hurd, RAND, California
Costas Meghir, Institute for Fiscal Studies and Department of Economics, UCL
Jim Smith, RAND, California
Bob Wallace, University of Iowa, Department of Epidemiology
Bas Weerman, RAND
David Weir, Population Studies Centre, University of Michigan
Bob Willis, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

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