Senior Research Fellow
Dr Jo Blodgett is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health (ISEH) and the Department of Targeted Intervention at UCL. Her background is in life course epidemiology and population health, working primarily with wearable data from large-scale population cohort data.
Jo applies advanced quantitative approaches, including compositional data analysis, longitudinal modelling, and evidence synthesis, to explore the complex interactions between all movement across the 24-hour day (physical activity, sleep, sedentary behaviour) and health. Jo has applied these methods in her work with ProPASS, leading two of the first empirical ProPASS papers published in Circulation (2025) and the European Heart Journal (2024).
Jo also has a strong interest in women’s health and female athlete health, exploring how the menstrual cycle may impact various aspects of performance and health. how lessons from elite sport can inform broader health strategies. As an active footballer herself, Jo brings a practical understanding of sport and training into her research and is passionate about how insights from elite sport can be translated into everyday strategies to better support the health and wellbeing of women throughout their lives.
