Susan Michie
University College London, United Kingdom
Susan Michie is Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on human behaviour change in relation to health and the environment: how to understand it theoretically and apply theory and evidence to intervention and policy development, evaluation and implementation. Her research, collaborating with disciplines such as information science, environmental science, computer science and medicine, covers population, organisational and individual level interventions. She is an investigator on more than 15 research projects, including three addressing behaviour and the Covid-19 pandemic. She has published over 500 journal articles and several books, including the Behaviour Change Wheel: A Guide to Designing Interventions.
She serves as an expert advisor on the UK’s Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behavioural Science (Covid-19), the Lancet’s Covid-19 Commission and a member of the UK’s Independent SAGE. She serves on WHO’s Behavioural Insights and Sciences Technical Advisory Group, is Chair of the UK Food Standard Agency’s Advisory Committee for Social Sciences, is part of NIHR’s Behavioural Science Policy Research Unit, led UCL’s membership of NIHR’s School of Public Health Research and chaired the Academy of Social Science’s ‘Health of People’ project.