Carol Elspeth Goodeve Brayne CBE is a British academic and the Professor of Public Health Medicine at the University of Cambridge and Chair of Wellcome's Population and Public Health Review Group. She is Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health. She is a special advisor for the Royal College of Physicians and a senior investigator at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Brayne has a degree in medicine from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London. In the 2017 Birthday Honours, Brayne was made a CBE, "For services to Public Health Medicine". Selected publications Age-Associated White Matter Lesions: The MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study. Wharton SB, Simpson JE, Brayne C, Ince PG. Brain Pathol. 2015 Jan;25(1):35–43. Potential for primary prevention of Alzheimer's disease: an analysis of population-based data. Norton S, Matthews FE, Barnes DE, Yaffe K, Brayne C. Lancet Neurol. 2014 Aug;13(8):788-94. Adapting to dementia in society: a challenge for our lifetimes and a charge for public health. D'Alton S, Hunter S, Whitehouse P, Brayne C, George D. J Alzheimers Dis. 2014;42(4):1151–63. Dementia prediction for people with stroke in populations: is mild cognitive impairment a useful concept? Stephan BC, Minett T, Muniz Terrera G, Matthews FE, Brayne C. Age Ageing. 2015 Jan;44(1):78–83. Reporting standards for studies of diagnostic test accuracy in dementia: The STARDdem Initiative. Noel-Storr AH, McCleery JM, Richard E, Ritchie CW, Flicker L, Cullum SJ, Davis D, Quinn TJ, Hyde C, Rutjes AW, Smailagic N, Marcus S, Black S, Blennow K, Brayne C, Fiorivanti M, Johnson JK, Köpke S, Schneider LS, Simmons A, Mattsson N, Zetterberg H, Bossuyt PM, Wilcock G, McShane R. Neurology. 2014 Jul 22;83(4):364-73. Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease. Escott-Price V, Bellenguez C, Wang LS, ... Brayne C, ... Amouyel P, Williams J; Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS). PLoS One. 2014 Jun 12;9(6):e94661. DNA damage response and senescence in endothelial cells of human cerebral cortex and relation to Alzheimer's neuropathology progression: a population-based study in the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC-CFAS) cohort. Garwood CJ, Simpson JE, Al Mashhadi S, Axe C, Wilson S, Heath PR, Shaw PJ, Matthews FE, Brayne C, Ince PG, Wharton SB; MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. 2014 Dec;40(7):802-14. Brain haemosiderin in older people: pathological evidence for an ischaemic origin of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) microbleeds. Janaway BM, Simpson JE, Hoggard N, Highley JR,