Measuring and Analysing Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
The health of individuals varies according to socioeconomic characteristics reflecting, at least in part, different exposures to factors that influence health. Since populations comprise groups of individuals, and these groups tend not to be random, e.g. groups defined by geography or on the basis of occupation, there are differences between the health of different populations. Understanding such health inequalities plays an important part in improving the health of the population.
Health inequalities remain constant or are increasing and it is unclear how to reduce them. We are improving methods to analyse routinely collected health data and surveys and using new linkages of health to social data, aiming to improve our understanding of inequalities in health and improve intervention strategies. The programme is organised into three themes: Health inequalities and linked data analysis; Natural experiments from observational data; and Enhancing cohort, survey and routine data sources. Our focus on existing data sources represents a cost-effective means of working, capitalising on substantial investment in surveys and cohorts as well as ‘big data’. We benefit from our location in Scotland with its outstanding systems of linked routine health data, and our research team is recognised internationally for expertise in the analysis of these data and for methodological rigour and innovation.
Health inequalities remain constant or are increasing and it is unclear how to reduce them. We are improving methods to analyse routinely collected health data and surveys and using new linkages of health to social data, aiming to improve our understanding of inequalities in health and improve intervention strategies. The programme is organised into three themes: Health inequalities and linked data analysis; Natural experiments from observational data; and Enhancing cohort, survey and routine data sources. Our focus on existing data sources represents a cost-effective means of working, capitalising on substantial investment in surveys and cohorts as well as ‘big data’. We benefit from our location in Scotland with its outstanding systems of linked routine health data, and our research team is recognised internationally for expertise in the analysis of these data and for methodological rigour and innovation.
Technical Summary
Aims and Objectives
The aim of this programme is to improve methodology for the measurement and analysis of health and inequalities in health using observational data with particular emphasis on improving our understanding of causes and informing strategies for intervention. Our objectives are:
1. To improve population health outcomes through conduct and translation of research based on the evaluation of policy or large-scale intervention.
2. To maximise the use of existing routine, linked and population-sampled data sources and, in so doing, enhance the return on the investment made in these resources.
3. To inform intervention strategy through research enhancing our understanding of health, inequalities in health and the determinants of health.
4. To build capacity in the measurement and analysis of inequalities in health using observational data.
Research plan and methodology
The purpose of this programme is to develop, adapt and apply appropriate statistical methods and novel study designs for the analysis of health inequalities, taking advantage of the linkage of new datasets and improved analytical capability. The joint focus on methodology and application, and proposed collaborations internally, nationally and internationally, ensure we are grounded in real-world applications assessing inequalities or informing the reduction of inequalities. Much of our work uses linked data from local, national and international longitudinal studies and surveys.
Our proposals include the use of novel linkages such as the linkage of education and unemployment data to population health data. We are in an excellent position to take advantage of the linkage of health and social data for three main reasons: we benefit from our location in Scotland with a long history of high quality routinely collected and linked health data and have experience in analysing the same going back more than 25 years; we have expertise in the analysis of linked health and social datasets from other countries, particularly Finland, Sweden and Norway, going back over 10 years; and we have considerable experience working with other datasets that link individual social data to routine data systems including the Scottish Health Survey, Scottish Birth Records and the Scottish Longitudinal Study.
The work of this programme is organised around three themes:
As more data sources come on line, in part through initiatives such as the Farr Institute for Health Informatics Research and the Administrative Data Research Centres, our first theme ‘Health inequalities and linked data analysis’ is exploring their potential to improve our understanding of the patterning of health and to identify points for intervention.
Our second theme, ‘Natural experiments from observational data’, is working on improving the extent to which we can be confident that associations based on observational data are causal which will in turn lead to an improved understanding of how we can intervene to improve health and reduce inequalities.
The third theme, ‘Enhancing cohort, survey and routine data sources’, is combining data from cross-sectional and longitudinal sources, largely by the innovative use of multiple imputation, to increase our power for analysis leading to improvements in our understanding of health and its determinants.
The aim of this programme is to improve methodology for the measurement and analysis of health and inequalities in health using observational data with particular emphasis on improving our understanding of causes and informing strategies for intervention. Our objectives are:
1. To improve population health outcomes through conduct and translation of research based on the evaluation of policy or large-scale intervention.
2. To maximise the use of existing routine, linked and population-sampled data sources and, in so doing, enhance the return on the investment made in these resources.
3. To inform intervention strategy through research enhancing our understanding of health, inequalities in health and the determinants of health.
4. To build capacity in the measurement and analysis of inequalities in health using observational data.
Research plan and methodology
The purpose of this programme is to develop, adapt and apply appropriate statistical methods and novel study designs for the analysis of health inequalities, taking advantage of the linkage of new datasets and improved analytical capability. The joint focus on methodology and application, and proposed collaborations internally, nationally and internationally, ensure we are grounded in real-world applications assessing inequalities or informing the reduction of inequalities. Much of our work uses linked data from local, national and international longitudinal studies and surveys.
Our proposals include the use of novel linkages such as the linkage of education and unemployment data to population health data. We are in an excellent position to take advantage of the linkage of health and social data for three main reasons: we benefit from our location in Scotland with a long history of high quality routinely collected and linked health data and have experience in analysing the same going back more than 25 years; we have expertise in the analysis of linked health and social datasets from other countries, particularly Finland, Sweden and Norway, going back over 10 years; and we have considerable experience working with other datasets that link individual social data to routine data systems including the Scottish Health Survey, Scottish Birth Records and the Scottish Longitudinal Study.
The work of this programme is organised around three themes:
As more data sources come on line, in part through initiatives such as the Farr Institute for Health Informatics Research and the Administrative Data Research Centres, our first theme ‘Health inequalities and linked data analysis’ is exploring their potential to improve our understanding of the patterning of health and to identify points for intervention.
Our second theme, ‘Natural experiments from observational data’, is working on improving the extent to which we can be confident that associations based on observational data are causal which will in turn lead to an improved understanding of how we can intervene to improve health and reduce inequalities.
The third theme, ‘Enhancing cohort, survey and routine data sources’, is combining data from cross-sectional and longitudinal sources, largely by the innovative use of multiple imputation, to increase our power for analysis leading to improvements in our understanding of health and its determinants.
Organisations
- University of Glasgow (Lead Research Organisation)
- Government of Canada (Collaboration)
- University of Calgary (Collaboration)
- University of Oslo (Collaboration)
- University of York (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN (Collaboration)
- Cardiff University (Collaboration)
- Heriot-Watt University (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Federal University of Minas Gerais (Collaboration)
- University of Helsinki (Collaboration)
- Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Collaboration)
- NSW Government (Collaboration)
- NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH (Collaboration)
- Ingeus (Collaboration)
- Columbia University (Collaboration)
- Medical Research Council (MRC) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- University of Stirling (Collaboration)
- Bond University (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Glasgow Centre for Population Health (Collaboration)
- Federal University of Bahia (Collaboration)
- Administrative Data Research Centre for Scotland (Collaboration)
- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) (Collaboration)
- Public Health Scotland (Collaboration)
- The University of Texas at San Antonio (Collaboration)
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (Collaboration)
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- University of Melbourne (Collaboration)
- National Institute for Health and Welfare (Collaboration)
- University of Texas at Austin (Collaboration)
- National Health Service Scotland (Collaboration)
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) (Collaboration)
- University of Toronto (Collaboration)
- Western Sydney University (Collaboration)
- KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Alastair Leyland (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Akl E
(2017)
GRADE equity guidelines 2: considering health equity in GRADE guideline development: equity extension of the guideline development checklist
in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Akl EA
(2021)
Developing trustworthy recommendations as part of an urgent response (1-2 weeks): a GRADE concept paper.
in Journal of clinical epidemiology
Al-Ozairi E
(2021)
Risk of mortality among inpatients with COVID-19 and type 2 diabetes: National data from Kuwait.
in Endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism
Aldridge R
(2020)
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups in England are at increased risk of death from COVID-19: indirect standardisation of NHS mortality data
in Wellcome Open Research
Aldridge RW
(2020)
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups in England are at increased risk of death from COVID-19: indirect standardisation of NHS mortality data.
in Wellcome open research
Aldridge RW
(2018)
Morbidity and mortality in homeless individuals, prisoners, sex workers, and individuals with substance use disorders in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
in Lancet (London, England)
Allik M
(2016)
Small-area deprivation measure datasets for Scotland, 2001 and 2011.
in Data in brief
Allik M
(2022)
Differences in ill health and in socioeconomic inequalities in health by ethnic groups: a cross-sectional study using 2011 Scottish census.
in Ethnicity & health
Related Projects
| Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Award Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MC_UU_12017/10 | 31/03/2015 | 29/03/2020 | £2,234,000 | ||
| MC_UU_12017/11 | Transfer | MC_UU_12017/10 | 31/03/2015 | 29/03/2020 | £2,887,000 |
| MC_UU_12017/12 | Transfer | MC_UU_12017/11 | 31/03/2015 | 29/03/2020 | £2,689,000 |
| MC_UU_12017/13 | Transfer | MC_UU_12017/12 | 31/03/2015 | 29/03/2020 | £3,788,000 |
| MC_UU_12017/14 | Transfer | MC_UU_12017/13 | 31/03/2015 | 29/03/2020 | £2,489,000 |
| MC_UU_12017/15 | Transfer | MC_UU_12017/14 | 31/03/2015 | 30/03/2020 | £4,441,000 |
| Title | Kelvingrove Art Gallery Exhibition: Mountain Plot Jigsaw (RD) |
| Description | A jigsaw which displays the findings of our research on inequalities in mortality. Members of the public were able to view our jigsaw displaying the findings of our research on inequalities in mortality and access further information about the Programme and Unit |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | The jigsaw raised the profile of the Unit & Programme as it was on display for 3 months at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. It is one of the top three free-to-enter visitor attractions in Scotland and one of the most visited museums in the United Kingdom outside of London. |
| URL | https://www.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk/research-programmes/mh/hsco/jigsaw.html |
| Title | Materials for a public engagement game, Become a Data Detective (AP) |
| Description | Materials created for this game comprise: role playing scripts, data workstations, hypothetical datasets, codebreakers (linkage keys) for use during the game; and make your own codebreaker sheets (Unit branded) and stickers to give to participants. These were created by Anna Pearce, with scientific input from other members of the Health Inequalities programme (including Emily Tweed, Andrew Pulford, Michael Green, Ruth Dundas and Linsay Gray), and with creative and practical input from John Gilchrist and Gillian Bell. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | These materials have been used while carrying out "Become a Data Detecive" at public engagement activities, including with a local church group and a local school. The activity will also be carried out at Glasgow Science Festival in June, and in the future other events (e.g. a family based lab at Swansea Science festival). Hope to post all materials online for wider use in future. |
| Description | Alastair Leyland was invited to attend and contribute to the IARC (International Agency for Research in Cancer) Workshop Lyon 16-18th April 2018 on Cancer and inequalities |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Attendance at UKRI Sciencewise roundtable on ageing |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Guideline Title | Clinical guideline for homeless and vulnerably housed people, and people with lived homelessness experience |
| Description | Citation in Canadian clinical guidelines (ET) |
| Geographic Reach | North America |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in clinical guidelines |
| URL | https://www.cmaj.ca/content/192/10/E240 |
| Description | Citation in Policy document Final report to the SERI (State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, government agency within the Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research) (EW) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Description | Citation in a systematic review (PC) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953621000496#sec5 |
| Description | Citation in policy document - report of UK Parliament Health and Social Care Select Committee (ET) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201920/cmselect/cmhealth/143/14302.htm |
| Description | Citation in report by Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs (ET) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/7611... |
| Description | Citation in report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland and accompanying expert review (ET) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.prisonsinspectoratescotland.gov.uk/publications/report-expert-review-provision-mental-he... |
| Description | Citation in systematic review (K.Skivington) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33158940/ |
| Description | Citation in the Scottish Government-commissioned NHS Health Scotland's Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) annual report (LG) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | http://www.healthscotland.com/uploads/documents/24485-MESAS_4th%20Annual%20Report%20Dec%2014.pdf |
| Description | Citation in the Scottish Government-commissioned NHS Health Scotland's Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) updated assessment of the validity and reliability of alcohol retail sales data (LG) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | http://www.healthscotland.com/uploads/documents/25959-MESAS%20validity%20reliability%20update%20-%20... |
| Description | Citation of (T. Robertson, M. Benzeval, E. Whitley, F. Popham The role of material, psychosocial and behavioral factors in mediating the association between socioeconomic position and allostatic load |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743518301531?via%3Dihub#bb0685 |
| Description | Citation of paper (PMID: 26422012) in systematic review (AL) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12966-016-0398-2 |
| Description | Consultation on planned NIHR Global Health Policy and Systems Research programme (AL) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Contributed to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde consultation workshop on the health board's Health and Wellbeing Survey on 13/01/2017 |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Resulted in changes to the survey questionnaire and conduct, ensuring the most appropriate topics and coverage, leading to optimal health policy-informing at the regional level. |
| URL | http://www.nhsggc.org.uk/your-health/public-health/public-health-resource-unit/research-and-evaluati... |
| Description | Contribution to SG call for The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on equalities and human rights (EW) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Contribution to national consultation (health prevention 2020) (EW) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Courses: Multilevel Modelling for Public Health and Health Services Research |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Attendees at Course can now analyse and interpret their data appropriately |
| URL | http://www.healthincontext.com |
| Description | Inclusion in Policy Document SUFFOLK HEALTHY AGEING NEEDS ASSESSMENT (EW) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.healthysuffolk.org.uk/uploads/Healthy_Ageing_Needs_Assessment_webFinal160718.pdf |
| Description | Influencing Government in relation to conduct of national health survey data linkage |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.ndc.scot.nhs.uk/National-Datasets/data.asp?SubID=78 |
| Description | Information provision to UK Government Sciencewise programme (EW) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | International Best Practice Advisory Group (VK) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The International Best Practice Advisory Group (IBPAG) advises the UK Cabinet Office about international learning on the COVID-19 response. The group meets weekly and reviews emerging summaries of evidence produced by government and provides advice to inform the pandemic policy response on a large range of issues, including vaccination, test and isolate systems, lockdown measures and so forth. This advice is then used to develop briefings for members of the Cabinet who then make policy decisions to guide the public health response and mitigation strategies. |
| Description | Invited Membership of European Respiratory Society Taskforce on Palliative Care in COPD and ILD (M Hilton Boon) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Linsay Gray has joined the technical steering group of the NHSGGC's Health and Wellbeing Survey. |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Linsay Gray participated in the Scottish Tobacco-Free Alliance Open Meeting on ASSIST in Scotland |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Media coverage of article on progress in protecting non-smokers from secondhand smoke (LG) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | Increased public awareness of falls in secondhand smoke exposure |
| URL | https://www.altmetric.com/details/47240892/news |
| Description | Media coverage of article on whether e-cigarettes have renormalised or displaced youth smoking |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | Article on whether e-cigarettes have renormalised or displaced youth smoking in England, Scotland and Wales generated 100 news stories from 96 outlets |
| URL | https://www.altmetric.com/details/58298492/news |
| Description | Meeting with policy leads in Improving Health and Wellbeing Outcomes for Mothers, Children & Young People Division at Scottish Government to discuss Healthy Start Voucher Evaluation (2016) (RD) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | New method for projecting mortality for population projections |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Oral evidence session at Scottish Affairs Committee of UK Houses of Parliament |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/scottish-affairs-co... |
| Description | Project advisory group (MA) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Provision of corrected estimates of hazardous/harmful drinkers to NHS HEALTH SCOTLAND for Informing Interventions to reduce health Inequalities (Triple I) (LG) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Response to Scottish Government Consultation A Healthier Future Action and Ambitions on Diet, Activity and Healthy Weight (Stephanie Chambers) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Response to the Advertising Standards Authority consultation on the Committees of Advertising Practice and The UK Code of Broadcast Advertising proposal to allow lawful ads to make health claims for e-cigarettes and how CAP proposes to regulate public health messages which refer to e-cigarettes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | We made the case for any claims about health not being presented to the public by the tobacco industry in any of its guises. |
| Description | Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE) (VK) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Provided a briefing to Chris Whitty (CMO) and Patrick Vallance (Chief Scientific Advisor) which demonstrated ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes and highlighted the important role of social determinants in contributing to these. Following this, attended SAGE and provided scientific advice on the knowledge available about ethnic inequalities in COVID-19. Advice informed research funding, including leading to a call for UKRI research and I advised on its establishment. Following this initial input, a subgroup of SAGE on ethnicity and COVID-19 was established which I am a member of (meeting fortnightly). This has provided evidence about the drivers of ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 (led by me and including our published research) and providing recommendations to mitigate these inequalities e.g. improvements to public health messaging, housing-based interventions and adapting the test, trace and isolate system. This work is expected to increase survival, improve quality of life, help mitigate the adverse social and economic impacts of COVID-19 and reduce health inequalities. |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drivers-of-the-higher-covid-19-incidence-morbidity-and-mo... |
| Description | Scottish Government Expert Reference Group on ethnicity and COVID-19 (VK) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Co-chaired the Expert Reference Group (ERG) on ethnicity and COVID-19 for Scottish Government which has provided independent advice and challenge about how to address ethnic inequalities within the pandemic and over the longer term. The ERG has provided two sets of recommendations so far which have been incorporated in the Scottish Government's Programme for Government. One set of recommendations was around improving data for the purposes of monitoring health inequalities and its determinants. This has led to immediate actions (e.g. the issuing of a Ministerial circular to Chief Executives of health boards on data collection) to more longer term actions e.g. modifying Scotland's health data systems. Similarly, there have been recommendations to address ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes (e.g. improving delivery of Test & Protect) and underlying structural drivers (e.g. inclusion of ethnicity within the school curricula). These recommendations (which have been informed by our own evidence, as well as the broader developing evidence base) are expected to reduce the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, improve public health and clinical service delivery and reduce societal inequalities. |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/groups/expert-reference-group-on-covid-19-and-ethnicity/ |
| Description | Scottish Government report (EW) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Description | Scottish Longitudinal Study Research Board (Frank Popham) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Good Governance |
| Description | Submission to House of Commons Education Committee Inquiry into the effects of COVID-19 on education and children's services (PC) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Submission to The UK Parliament Education Committee inquiry into the effects of COVID-19 on education and children's services (PC) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Unit response to CAP and BCAP's E-cigarettes: health claims and public health advertisements (LG) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Unit response to Health and Sport Committee at The Scottish Parliament's The Health (Tobacco, Nicotine etc. and Care) (Scotland) Bill at stage 1 consultation (LG) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/CurrentCommittees/91070.aspx |
| Description | Unit response to House of Commons Select Committee: Science and Technology Committee's E-cigarettes inquiry (LG) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-c... |
| Description | Unit response to Scottish Government's A Healthier Future - Action and Ambitions on Diet, Activity and Healthy Weight consultation (LG) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Unit response to Scottish Government's Consultation on Electronic Cigarettes and Strengthening Tobacco Control in Scotland (LG) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Unit response to The Scottish Government's Consultation on the Design of The Scottish Household Survey for 2017 and Beyond (LG) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | While we made a case for a reduction of the overall survey sample size by around a third, with a small reduction in topics covered by the survey, our alternative arguments put forward in favour of halving the number of topics covered by the survey every year and collecting data on each topic every second year, with a small reduction in sample size supported the ultimate decision to proceed on that basis. |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/publications/consultation-design-scottish-household-survey-shs-2017-beyond/ |
| Description | Unit response to the Health and Social Care Information Centre consultation on the Health Survey for England coordinated by Linsay Gray |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Resulted in changes to the survey questionnaire and conduct, ensuring the most appropriate topics and coverage, leading to optimal health policy-informing at the national level. On the basis of the responses submitted, the Health and Social Care Information Centre (now NHS Digital) have continued to commission the Health Survey for England for years 2016 - 2019, use the feedback to inform the future development of the survey, publicise UK Data Service Health Survey for England resources more, inform respondents who want mental health and wellbeing data about the 2014 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, and consider ways to increase awareness of the range of health and care surveys they do. |
| Description | Unit response to the Scottish Government consultation on 2017 Scottish Household Survey coordinated by Linsay Gray |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Resulted in changes to the survey questionnaire and conduct, ensuring the most appropriate topics and coverage, leading to optimal health policy-informing at the national level. |
| URL | http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/16002/Consultation/2017Consultation/SHS2017response |
| Description | Unit response to the Scottish Government consultation on the Scottish Health Survey questionnaire coordinated by Linsay Gray. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Resulted in changes to the survey questionnaire and conduct, ensuring the most appropriate topics and coverage, leading to optimal health policy-informing at the national level. In line with our case, questions were retained on: • Anxiety and depression • Mental Wellbeing and Symptoms of psychiatric disorder • Physical activity • Fruit and vegetable consumption • Smoking and e-cigarettes • Alcohol consumption and drinking experiences • Body Mass Index / Obesity (height and weight measurements) • Sexual orientation Additionally, there was the addition of a new question giving the participants the opportunity to include express non-binary gender identity |
| URL | https://consult.scotland.gov.uk/population-health/scottish-health-survey/ |
| Description | WHO European Region report. (AP) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-determinants/social-determinants/publications/2020/... |
| Description | Workshop on measuring health inequalities (DB) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Assessing the impacts of economic policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health: A microsimulation modelling study |
| Amount | £19,161 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Health Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 11/2020 |
| Description | British Dietetic Association General Education Trust Fund |
| Amount | £7,841 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Dietetic Association (BDA) |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2019 |
| End | 02/2021 |
| Description | COST Action CA15137 Training School 2019 - Evaluation procedures and their impact on SSH careers (TK) |
| Amount | € 700 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | CA15137-040219-095384 |
| Organisation | European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 01/2019 |
| Description | CRUK/BUPA Foundation Cancer Prevention Initiative (CS) |
| Amount | £12,880 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | C53258/A19682 |
| Organisation | Cancer Research UK |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2014 |
| End | 11/2015 |
| Description | CSO Fellowship Funding Morbidity and mortality among people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage: a cohort study using cross-sectoral data linkage |
| Amount | £186,200 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | CAF/17/11 |
| Organisation | Chief Scientist Office |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2018 |
| End | 01/2021 |
| Description | Calderone award, Columbia University (LG) |
| Amount | $100,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | Columbia University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 12/2016 |
| Description | Columbia travel award for the European Public Health conference 2016 (Linsay Gray) |
| Amount | $25,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | Columbia University |
| Department | Columbia University Calderone award |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 06/2016 |
| End | 11/2016 |
| Description | Comparing health outcomes for care experienced children and children in the general population in Scotland using linked administrative data |
| Amount | £211,726 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/T000120/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 11/2022 |
| Description | Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs, Single Parent Families and Young Adolescents' Substance Use (MG) |
| Amount | $3,000 (USD) |
| Funding ID | R03DA046046 |
| Organisation | National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 01/2021 |
| Description | Evaluation of the Healthy Start Voucher Scheme in UK: a natural experiment using the Growing Up in Scotland record linkage study and the Infant Feeding Survey. (RD) |
| Amount | £432,388 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | PHR/13/164/10 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2015 |
| End | 05/2017 |
| Description | Evaluation of the health impacts of Universal Credit: a mixed methods study (P.Craig) |
| Amount | £1,577,622 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NIHR131709 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 08/2025 |
| Description | FORTE: (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare): Programme grants for research on ageing, demogarphy and health (Vittal Katikireddi) |
| Amount | 9,000,000 kr (SEK) |
| Organisation | FORTE: (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Sweden |
| Start | 01/2017 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | Future updates & dissemination of MRC Complex Intervention Guidance (P.Craig) |
| Amount | £23,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MC_PC_20041 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 06/2021 |
| Description | GKE Small Grants project - Inequalities in Mortality Mountain Plot Jigsaw Denise Brown |
| Amount | £600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2017 |
| End | 01/2017 |
| Description | Glasgow Centre for Population Health/ NHS Health Scotland - research associate post |
| Amount | £35,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Glasgow Centre for Population Health |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2019 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | Health Equity of Economic Determinants (HEED): Developing a Pan-European microsimulation model (V.Katikireddi) |
| Amount | £1,221,161 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 949582 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| Description | Interdisciplinary Research Hubs full call - ARISE |
| Amount | £11,800,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R039526/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 02/2024 |
| Description | Loneliness and Mental Health in Adolescent and Young Adult Populations |
| Amount | £244,940 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/T008679/01 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | Mental health and HIV among call centre employees in the Philippines: Co-producing a workplace intervention using a systems approach (L.Demou) |
| Amount | £140,700 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/V004093/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Description | NCDS58 Longitudinal cohort analyses (Ruth Dundas) |
| Amount | £76,901 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | GCPH/Joint RA Post |
| Organisation | Glasgow Centre for Population Health |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2016 |
| End | 08/2019 |
| Description | NCRM Bursary for training |
| Amount | £750 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 02/2019 |
| Description | NIHR Evaluating possible intended and unintended consequences of the implementation of Minimum Unit Pricing of Alcohol in Scotland: a natural experiment |
| Amount | £1,136,613 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 11/3005/40 |
| Organisation | Public Heath Research (PHR) Progrmame |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2017 |
| End | 08/2020 |
| Description | NIHR Global Health Research Group on Social Policy and Health Inequalities |
| Amount | £2,489,256 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 16/137/99 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2017 |
| End | 05/2021 |
| Description | National Institute for Health Research (NIHR): - Evaluating graduated progress towards and impacts of the implementation of indoor smoke free prison facilities in Scotland |
| Amount | £853,046 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 15/55/44 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Department | Public Health Research (PHR) Programme |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2016 |
| End | 06/2019 |
| Description | Open Epidemiology for pandemic modelling: a transparent, traceable, reusable, open source pipeline for reproducible science |
| Amount | £503,590 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/V006126/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 06/2022 |
| Description | PHIRST No One Left Behind (P.Craig) |
| Amount | £64,344 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | Population Health Impact Assessment Tools: Using Population Health Data to Improve Chronic Disease Prediction (AL) |
| Amount | $246,597 (CAD) |
| Organisation | Canadian Institutes of Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Canada |
| Start | 06/2015 |
| End | 06/2019 |
| Description | Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Team: PHIRST Fusion |
| Amount | £2,611,291 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NIHR131566 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 08/2025 |
| Description | SFC-GCRF: Exploring the feasibility of cross-sectoral data linkage to study the social determinants of health in India |
| Amount | £28,996 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Department | Scottish Funding Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| End | 03/2018 |
| Description | ScotPEN Wellcome public engagement funding scheme (A.Pearce) |
| Amount | £25,403 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 21707819 |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Description | Scottish Health Survey 2017 |
| Amount | £23,631 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Scottish Health Survey and Scottish Longitudinal Survey linked to Scottish Morbidity Record data |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2017 |
| End | 09/2018 |
| Description | Supporting older people into employment (SOPIE): identifying factors influencing return to work in the over 50s (AL) |
| Amount | £588,016 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/L006367/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2014 |
| End | 10/2017 |
| Description | Systematic review of interventions to improve health, happiness and wellbeing in the transition from adolescence to adulthood |
| Amount | £42,923 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2016 |
| End | 08/2016 |
| Description | The economic and social value of health - Causal effects of alcohol and mental health problems on employment outcomes: Harnessing UK Biobank and linked administrative data (VK) |
| Amount | £447,069 (GBP) |
| Organisation | UK Health Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2018 |
| End | 11/2020 |
| Description | UKPRP - MatCHNet (RD) |
| Amount | £400,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Department | UK PRP |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Description | Understanding the impacts of income and welfare policy responses to COVID-19 on inequalities in mental health: A microsimulation model (v.KatikireddI) |
| Amount | £145,310 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 2301174 |
| Organisation | The Health Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | Wellcome Trust Fellowship Funding |
| Amount | £435,543 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 205412/Z/16/Z |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2017 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Title | Collaborative further development of iPad app for MUP in Emergency Depts (EDs) and further development of Sexual Heath Clinics (SHCs) questionnaire |
| Description | Questionnaires |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | iPad app speeds up the research data collection and entry process. Rigorous prior testing required. |
| URL | http://mup.sphsu.gla.ac.uk/#resources |
| Title | Evidence Synthesis for Directed Acyclic Graphs (ESC-DAGs) method (Mark McCann) |
| Description | Method for constructing causal models of exposure -> health outcome pathways based on existing literature. |
| Type Of Material | Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This paper has been cited 16 times. This has been in other applied research papers, causal inference methodological papers, and in methods tutorial / educational papers |
| Title | TIDieR-PHP: a reporting guideline for population health and policy interventions, explanation and elaboration |
| Description | TIDieR-PHP provides clear reporting guidance for population health and policy interventions. Population health and policy interventions are legal, fiscal, structural, organisational, environmental, and policy interventions such as the regulation of unhealthy commodities, health service reorganisation, changes in welfare policy and neighbourhood improvement schemes. The checklist items comprise: the materials used; what processes were involved and how the intervention was planned and delivered; who was involved in the provision of the intervention; the location and scope; planned and unplanned variation; how fidelity was measured; and the extent to which the intervention was delivered as intended. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Use of TIDieR-PHP should help authors of population health and policy intervention studies to provide more complete and consistent reports of the intervention, thereby reducing research waste and supporting replication, evidence synthesis and implementation. |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthscience... |
| Title | Aberdeen Birth Cohort (FP) |
| Description | We are using the Aberdeen Birth Cohort linked to modern health records to study the long-term impact of selective schooling on health. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Our use has lead to initial acceptance of our Registered Report by BMC Medicine |
| Title | Carstairs deprivation scores for Scotland |
| Description | Carstairs deprivation scores were originally created for Scottish postcode sectors in 1981 as a measure of material deprivation. The scores were constructed from four census variables: car ownership, male unemployment, overcrowding and low social class. Since then, scores have been updated every ten years. Although there have been changes in some of the census variable definitions over time, the variables used in subsequent years have been kept as similar as possible to those used in 1981. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | These scores have been widely used in research into inequalities |
| URL | http://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/1270 |
| Title | Data sharing: Twenty-07 Study with various collaborators in other institutions (GD) |
| Description | Data sharing of Unit facility (West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study) with external collaborators Skelton et at at Glasgow Caledonian University, Britton at UCL, Kavalidou at University of Glasgow , Gale and Cukic at Edinburgh University, Dodds at Southampton University, Jani at University of Glasgow, Deary at Edinburgh University. Extensive health and social survey data of 3 cohorts consisting of 4510 individuals interviewed on 5 occasions over 20 years. although no more survey data are being collected, deaths data are being added on a quarterly basis. Enhancements to the data set are continually made and the data are been shared with several current collaborators. Latest enhancement include data on multi-morbidity which was shared and resulted in the award of PhD for the collaborator. The data have also been combined with data from our latest sub-study: Seniors USP (Understanding Sedentary Patterns), included in a separate entry. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Research papers have been and will continute to be produced. Dodds paper reported population grip strength, Britton paper population levels of alcohol consumption. 03/06/19 In the last year alone, several publications using these data - both by researchers in our Unit and by external collaborators. All work is in collaboration with researchers in our Unit, as we do not have consent to share the data without collaboration. Topics of recent publications include multimorbidity and suicide, socioeconomic advantage and successful ageing, alcohol intake and coronary heart disease, neighbourhood problems and adiposity, IQ and mortality. This data set has also been used to enhance the data collected as part of our latest sub-study Seniors USP (Understanding Sedentary Patterns) - see separate entry - which resulted in several publications in the last year. |
| URL | http://2007study.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk/Information-on-data-sharing.html |
| Title | Database for analysis of neighbourhood factors on AL in Understanding Society |
| Description | Linked dataset comprising Understanding Society survey, accessibility statistics, neighbourhood deprivation and anomie scores from census data, and crime statistics. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Dataset currently under analysis in terms of associations with allostatic load. Will be subsequently available to other researchers. |
| Title | Differences in Ill Health and in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health by Ethnic Groups: A cross-sectional study using 2011 Scottish Census |
| Description | |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | GUS Linked to Health Data |
| Description | Growing up in Scotland Birth Cohort 2 data linked to health record datasets in Scotland. (eg SMR01 - acute hospitalisations, SMR02 - maternal and birth records, health visiting, dental health, A&E attendance) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Reseachers will be able to use the linked GUS cohort 2 and health outcome data. The linkage now exists and researchers will need to apply to PBPP and Scottish Government (GUS) for permission to access it. |
| Title | MUP ED data |
| Description | This database contains research data collected in Emergency Departments in February 2018, October 2018 and February 2019 for the evaluation of MUP in Scotland. The emergency depts are in Glasgow Royal, Edinburgh Royal, Sheffield Northern General and Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen hospitals. The data include both interviewees and brief detials of non-approached attendees or those where the approach or interview was terminated. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Will test whether the proportion of alcohol-related attendance changes following MUP, and other outcomes around alcohol consumption using difference in difference analysis within a natural experiment design. |
| Title | MUP N of 1 Study Dataset (Mark McCann) |
| Description | Data collected from the Ecological Momentary Assessment component of the MUP N of 1 Study (known as the MUP Daily Survey study) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The database has been used for a paper published in the journal Addiction looking at variations in alcohol consumption change around the time of MUP, a report for Alcohol Change UK, and several presentations to the MUP evaluation collaborative and Scottish Government. |
| URL | http://osf.io/ESW4D |
| Title | MUP Sexual Health Clinic database |
| Description | This is the second database for the evaluation of MUP in Scotland (the other is the Emergency depts interview data). The data are anonymous and come from patietn completed surveys in sexual health clinics. There are three clinics in Scotland and three in England. This supports the natural experiment design. Data cover alcohol consumption, source of alcohol, spend on alcohol, and illegal drug consumption by individually named drugs. Data were collected for 3 week periods in Feb 2018, October 2018 and February 2019. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Will contribute to the evaluation of unintended and intended impacts from the implementation of MUP in Scotland in May 2018. |
| Title | Merged Scottish & English Health Survey Data (CS) |
| Description | Merged 2010-2012 Health Survey for England (HSE) and Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) for 16-24 year old individuals. The combined dataset contains 4272 survey respondents. Data from HSE and SHeS were merged in order to gain a more representative view of the health behaviours of NEETs across the UK. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/themes/health |
| Title | Relative measures of health inequalities (FP) |
| Description | It is often argued that the magntiude of relative measures of health inequalities depend on whether success or failure is studied. However, I showed that this does not apply to the odds ratio. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | http://journals.lww.com/epidem/Citation/publishahead/Re___Lies,_Damned_Lies,_and_Health_Inequality.9... |
| Title | School and local authority characteristics associated with take-up of Free School Meals in Scottish secondary schools 2014 |
| Description | School and local authority characteristics associated with take-up of Free School Meals in Scottish secondary schools 2014 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not known |
| Title | Seniors USP (GD) |
| Description | Accelerometry data on subjects from the older two cohorts of Twenty-07 plus questionnaire data. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28538672 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28619784 |
| URL | https://www.gcu.ac.uk/seniorsusp/ |
| Title | Small-area Deprivation Measure for Brazil: Data Documentation (MA) |
| Description | This data set provides the first-small area deprivation measure for the whole of Brazil. The measure was developed for analysing and monitoring health inequalities in Brazil. It is based on the 2010 Brazilian Population Census, conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), covering approximately 67 million households and 190 million people. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To date it has been used in research and research publications. Dissemination plans are under way to improve use outside academia |
| URL | http://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/980/ |
| Title | Transform one effect measure to another (FP) |
| Description | Transferring between relative risks, odds ratios and other effect measures from adjusted regression models can be difficult, using a treatment model and inverse probability weight solves this issue I show |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/01/06/ije.dyv323.extract |
| Description | Alcohol consumption across the life-course: determinants and health consequences (MKH) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Mary-Kate Hannah provided data from the three Twenty-07 cohorts on alcohol, morbidity, and mortality and also provided advice on the data; will comment on the manuscript. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Doing combined analysis of our three cohorts and a further six cohorts: 1946, 1958, 1970s birth cohorts, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Whitehall II, and Caerphilly. |
| Impact | Paper published PMID:30131059 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Amenable Mortality in Scotland and England (MY) |
| Organisation | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | All analyses and data |
| Collaborator Contribution | Initial research questions |
| Impact | Early access paper doi: 10.1002/psp.2385 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Amenable Mortality in Scotland and England (MY) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | All analyses and data |
| Collaborator Contribution | Initial research questions |
| Impact | Early access paper doi: 10.1002/psp.2385 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Are 'potentially preventable hospitalisations' a valid measure of the quality and affordability of primary and community care in Australia? (AL) |
| Organisation | University of Aberdeen |
| Department | Health Economics Research Unit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise in multilevel modelling |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in health services research and record linkage in Australia; Expertise in clinical epidemiology of ageing; Expertise in health economics |
| Impact | Grant received from NHMRC (AU$387,140 over 2 years - ~£243,000). Four papers published PMID: 23242247; 25793270, 28940236, 27604087. Oral presentations at various conferences. PhD awarded. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Are 'potentially preventable hospitalisations' a valid measure of the quality and affordability of primary and community care in Australia? (AL) |
| Organisation | University of Aberdeen |
| Department | Health Economics Research Unit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise in multilevel modelling |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in health services research and record linkage in Australia; Expertise in clinical epidemiology of ageing; Expertise in health economics |
| Impact | Grant received from NHMRC (AU$387,140 over 2 years - ~£243,000). Four papers published PMID: 23242247; 25793270, 28940236, 27604087. Oral presentations at various conferences. PhD awarded. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Are 'potentially preventable hospitalisations' a valid measure of the quality and affordability of primary and community care in Australia? (AL) |
| Organisation | University of Sydney |
| Department | Sax Institute |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise in multilevel modelling |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in health services research and record linkage in Australia; Expertise in clinical epidemiology of ageing; Expertise in health economics |
| Impact | Grant received from NHMRC (AU$387,140 over 2 years - ~£243,000). Four papers published PMID: 23242247; 25793270, 28940236, 27604087. Oral presentations at various conferences. PhD awarded. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Are 'potentially preventable hospitalisations' a valid measure of the quality and affordability of primary and community care in Australia? (AL) |
| Organisation | Western Sydney University |
| Department | School of Medicine |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise in multilevel modelling |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in health services research and record linkage in Australia; Expertise in clinical epidemiology of ageing; Expertise in health economics |
| Impact | Grant received from NHMRC (AU$387,140 over 2 years - ~£243,000). Four papers published PMID: 23242247; 25793270, 28940236, 27604087. Oral presentations at various conferences. PhD awarded. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Assessing reporting of narrative synthesis of quantitative data in public health systematic reviews (VK) |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual input into design and conduct |
| Collaborator Contribution | Intellectual input into design and conduct |
| Impact | Paper published PMID:30196129 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Avoidable Scottish Hospitalisations |
| Organisation | University of Aberdeen |
| Department | Health Economics Research Unit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise in multilevel modelling and data linkage |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in health economics; Expertise in health services research; Expertise in data linkage |
| Impact | Successful grant funding for "Avoidable Scottish Hospitalisations (ASH)" from CSO; £187,821 over 2 years Paper published PMID: 30795737 |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | BP reactivity (GD) |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Department | School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Sharing of data, development of joint ideas for papers, support for analyses and joint writing of papers |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in BP reactivity, development of joint ideas for papers, and joint analyses and writing of papers |
| Impact | Papers published (PMID): 19619405 20536905 21166685 21855582 21871931 22021460 22958235 disciplines - statistics, social sciences, epidemiology, psychology, sport science |
| Description | BP reactivity (GD) |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Department | School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Sharing of data, development of joint ideas for papers, support for analyses and joint writing of papers |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in BP reactivity, development of joint ideas for papers, and joint analyses and writing of papers |
| Impact | Papers published (PMID): 19619405 20536905 21166685 21855582 21871931 22021460 22958235 disciplines - statistics, social sciences, epidemiology, psychology, sport science |
| Description | Cognitive epidemiology (EW) |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Department | MRC Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Sharing of cohort data, expertise in their use, joint development of ideas, analyses and drafting of papers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in cognitive epidemiology, joint development of ideas, analyses and drafting of papersExpertise in cognitive epidemiology and chronic diseases, joint development of ideas and drafting of papers |
| Impact | Papers published (PMID): 21037248 21604878 21871931 |
| Description | Collaboration with Norwegien reseachers (C.Friel) |
| Organisation | Norwegian Institute of Public Health |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration has been established with three researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. The collaboration was with Dr Alexandra Havdahl, Tiril Borge, Anne-Lise Brantsaeter on aspects of my PhD. The PhD is my own work and the aspect they support is more a supportive/advisory role described below. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ms Tiril Borge has assisted with the systematic review and meta-analysis through being a second reviewer. She screened titles/abstracts, full text review, quality assessment, and provided critical appraisal on the draft article. Dr Alexandra Havdahl provided support with the systematic review and meta-analysis through providing expertise in Autism and neurodevelopment, and guidance on the methodological approach as well as reviewing the article critically for intellectual content. Additionally, Dr Alexandra Havdahl will act as an advisor on the mendelian randomisation analysis within my PhD as well as providing expertise in Autism. Dr Branstsaeter, Dr Havdahl and Ms Borge all provide guidance on the MoBa dataset. |
| Impact | Collaboration is with researchers. Two outputs are produced so far, two systematic reviews and meta-anlaysis Prenatal nutrition and the risk of offspring Autism Spectrum Disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis (submitted to the European Journal of Epidemiology, awaiting review) Suboptimal gestational weight gain and pre-pregnancy obesity, and the risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis (in preparation for submission to Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health) |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Columbia University Visiting Scholarship |
| Organisation | Columbia University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Linsay Gray is building collaborations; delivered a presentation on the MRC-funded project; delivered a training seminar on record linkage and associations with the MRC-funded project. Linsay Gray is overall project lead, advising on the design, analysis and conduct of the study; senior and lead authoring papers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hosting Linsay Gray as Visiting Scholar at Columbia University; sourcing and analysing data; leading and co-authoring papers. Partners are: Katherine M Keyes, Silvia Martins, Frank Popham, Caroline Rutherford, Andrew Gelman |
| Impact | 4 grant proposals submitted, Paper published PMID:29389712, 4 invited talks given at USA institutions including to industry, professional as well academic audiences, 4 conference presentations (USA and Germany) and preparation of a further journal article underway |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Evaluating WIAT |
| Organisation | Heriot-Watt University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Statistical expertise |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in Health Economics; Expertise in Geography; Expertise in the Built Environment; Expertise in Natural Experiments |
| Impact | Papers published PMID: 23996826, 30620516 |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Evaluating WIAT |
| Organisation | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) |
| Department | Department of Social and Environmental Health Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Statistical expertise |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in Health Economics; Expertise in Geography; Expertise in the Built Environment; Expertise in Natural Experiments |
| Impact | Papers published PMID: 23996826, 30620516 |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Evaluating WIAT |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Department | OPENSpace Research Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Statistical expertise |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in Health Economics; Expertise in Geography; Expertise in the Built Environment; Expertise in Natural Experiments |
| Impact | Papers published PMID: 23996826, 30620516 |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | GCPH Longitudinal cohort analyses to explore differences in health status and determinants between representative samples of Scotland and England |
| Organisation | Glasgow Centre for Population Health |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | 1. To undertake literature reviews of both previous research using the National Childhood Development Study (1958 British Birth cohort), and reviews of reviews of particular analytical themes, to help refine research questions and inform methodological approaches. 2. To undertake a series of themed analyses, comparing Scotland and England (including, separately, NW and NE England), as well as possibly the three city-regions described above). 3. Ultimately, these analyses to be extended to undertake analyses of the life histories of deceased Scottish cohort members in comparison to matched (i.e. in terms of age, gender, social class) English sub-samples with longer survival rates (i.e. who are still alive or who died at an older age than their Scottish equivalents) . 4. Data storage and Management |
| Collaborator Contribution | Initiator of the study, developed the idea and set up the project team. Involved in the day to day running of the project and overseer the analyses themes as agreed by the project team. Setting up of project meetings and notes of the meeting outcomes. |
| Impact | Paper PMID: 31297431 |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Global Burden of Disease study (S Vittal Katikireddi) |
| Organisation | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Providing input on epidemiology and public health for the GBD study, and critically revising manuscripts for publication. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Leading the conduct of the GBD study, including collation of epidemiological inputs, conduct of modelling and drafting of papers. |
| Impact | GBD data have been harmonised and new estimates produced. Papers published include: 28919117, 28919118, 28916366, 28919119, 28919115, 28919116, 28604169. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Impacts of e-cigarette regulation via the EU Tobacco Products Directive on young people's use of ecigarettes: a natural experiment; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Public Health Research funded study |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contributing as University of Glasgow lead, advising on the design, analysis and conduct of the quantitative study |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Cardiff: overall responsibility for the study; University of Stirling: leading the Scottish study arm; University of Bristol leading the English study arm. |
| Impact | publication in press Hallingberg, B., Maynard, O., Bauld, L., Brown, R., Gray, L. , Lowthian, E., MacKintosh, A. M., Moore, L. , Munafo, M. and Moore, G. (2018) Have e-cigarettes renormalised or displaced youth smoking? Results of a segmented regression analysis of repeated cross sectional survey data in England, Scotland and Wales. Tobacco Control, (Accepted for Publication) |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Impacts of e-cigarette regulation via the EU Tobacco Products Directive on young people's use of ecigarettes: a natural experiment; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Public Health Research funded study |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Department | MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contributing as University of Glasgow lead, advising on the design, analysis and conduct of the quantitative study |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Cardiff: overall responsibility for the study; University of Stirling: leading the Scottish study arm; University of Bristol leading the English study arm. |
| Impact | publication in press Hallingberg, B., Maynard, O., Bauld, L., Brown, R., Gray, L. , Lowthian, E., MacKintosh, A. M., Moore, L. , Munafo, M. and Moore, G. (2018) Have e-cigarettes renormalised or displaced youth smoking? Results of a segmented regression analysis of repeated cross sectional survey data in England, Scotland and Wales. Tobacco Control, (Accepted for Publication) |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Impacts of e-cigarette regulation via the EU Tobacco Products Directive on young people's use of ecigarettes: a natural experiment; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Public Health Research funded study |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contributing as University of Glasgow lead, advising on the design, analysis and conduct of the quantitative study |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Cardiff: overall responsibility for the study; University of Stirling: leading the Scottish study arm; University of Bristol leading the English study arm. |
| Impact | publication in press Hallingberg, B., Maynard, O., Bauld, L., Brown, R., Gray, L. , Lowthian, E., MacKintosh, A. M., Moore, L. , Munafo, M. and Moore, G. (2018) Have e-cigarettes renormalised or displaced youth smoking? Results of a segmented regression analysis of repeated cross sectional survey data in England, Scotland and Wales. Tobacco Control, (Accepted for Publication) |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Individual-, area- and service-level contributions to Indigenous health outcomes |
| Organisation | NSW Government |
| Department | NSW Ministry of Health |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Provide expertise in the use of linked hospital and death data, and multilevel models, to estimate the contributions of individual-, area- and service-level factors to inequalities in the outcomes of hospital care between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people |
| Collaborator Contribution | Grant leader. Strong involvement in the establishment of the Centre for Health Record Linkage (CHeReL). Expertise in population health, epidemiologic methods, data linkage, use of large administrative data sets, and facilitating the policy and practice uptake of researchExpertise in data linkage in in New South WalesExpertise in using evidence from research in health policy and health of Aboriginal populations |
| Impact | Received funding over 3 years of AU$469,000 (~£263,000) from the National Health and Medical Research Council. Six papers published (PMID 22490109, 24090327, 23319820, 23474235, 24299196, 24751666). |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Individual-, area- and service-level contributions to Indigenous health outcomes |
| Organisation | University of Sydney |
| Department | Sax Institute |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provide expertise in the use of linked hospital and death data, and multilevel models, to estimate the contributions of individual-, area- and service-level factors to inequalities in the outcomes of hospital care between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people |
| Collaborator Contribution | Grant leader. Strong involvement in the establishment of the Centre for Health Record Linkage (CHeReL). Expertise in population health, epidemiologic methods, data linkage, use of large administrative data sets, and facilitating the policy and practice uptake of researchExpertise in data linkage in in New South WalesExpertise in using evidence from research in health policy and health of Aboriginal populations |
| Impact | Received funding over 3 years of AU$469,000 (~£263,000) from the National Health and Medical Research Council. Six papers published (PMID 22490109, 24090327, 23319820, 23474235, 24299196, 24751666). |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Individual-, area- and service-level contributions to Indigenous health outcomes |
| Organisation | Western Sydney University |
| Department | School of Medicine |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provide expertise in the use of linked hospital and death data, and multilevel models, to estimate the contributions of individual-, area- and service-level factors to inequalities in the outcomes of hospital care between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people |
| Collaborator Contribution | Grant leader. Strong involvement in the establishment of the Centre for Health Record Linkage (CHeReL). Expertise in population health, epidemiologic methods, data linkage, use of large administrative data sets, and facilitating the policy and practice uptake of researchExpertise in data linkage in in New South WalesExpertise in using evidence from research in health policy and health of Aboriginal populations |
| Impact | Received funding over 3 years of AU$469,000 (~£263,000) from the National Health and Medical Research Council. Six papers published (PMID 22490109, 24090327, 23319820, 23474235, 24299196, 24751666). |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Mass Media for Public Health Messages (VK) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual input into grant application, design and conduct |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise on social marketing for leading the grant application |
| Impact | Paper published PMID:29329359 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Mass Media for Public Health Messages (VK) |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual input into grant application, design and conduct |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise on social marketing for leading the grant application |
| Impact | Paper published PMID:29329359 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Mass Media for Public Health Messages (VK) |
| Organisation | University of Stirling |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual input into grant application, design and conduct |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise on social marketing for leading the grant application |
| Impact | Paper published PMID:29329359 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Member of PHS COVID 19 Mental health cell |
| Organisation | Public Health Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Currently contributing to priority setting for future work and advising on likely data sources for monitoring. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Priority setting for future work |
| Impact | No outcomes as yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Minimum Unit Pricing collaboration |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Co Development of iPad app for inerviews of ED attendees |
| Collaborator Contribution | Original creation of the app |
| Impact | iPad app; papers DOI 10.3310/phr09110; 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028482 |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Non-response bias in health survey data |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Department | MRC Biostatistics Unit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Principal Investigator on grant; Input on study design, methods and literature searching |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in Public Health in Scotland Expertise in non-response methods |
| Impact | Funding received from MRC (£165,556 over 1.5 years). Presented research at numerous national and international conferences/meetings. Oral presentations to policy audiences, advocacy groups, Government advisory committees and Government-commissioned evaluation groups. papers published (PMID): 23457333; 25227767; 26615409; 28276110; 31184280; 32483066; 34396808. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Non-response bias in health survey data |
| Organisation | NHS Health Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Principal Investigator on grant; Input on study design, methods and literature searching |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in Public Health in Scotland Expertise in non-response methods |
| Impact | Funding received from MRC (£165,556 over 1.5 years). Presented research at numerous national and international conferences/meetings. Oral presentations to policy audiences, advocacy groups, Government advisory committees and Government-commissioned evaluation groups. papers published (PMID): 23457333; 25227767; 26615409; 28276110; 31184280; 32483066; 34396808. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Non-response bias in health survey data |
| Organisation | National Centre for Social Research |
| Department | Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Principal Investigator on grant; Input on study design, methods and literature searching |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in Public Health in Scotland Expertise in non-response methods |
| Impact | Funding received from MRC (£165,556 over 1.5 years). Presented research at numerous national and international conferences/meetings. Oral presentations to policy audiences, advocacy groups, Government advisory committees and Government-commissioned evaluation groups. papers published (PMID): 23457333; 25227767; 26615409; 28276110; 31184280; 32483066; 34396808. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Oslo Mortality Study |
| Organisation | University of Oslo |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provision of methodological and analytical expertise; knowledge of inequalities; contribution to published papers |
| Collaborator Contribution | Medical expertise; provision of access to detail individually linked register data; knowledge of data; expertise in life course epidemiology |
| Impact | Several presentations. 4 papers (PMID: 18079330, 18049185, 21062846, 21197131). |
| Start Year | 2006 |
| Description | Patterning of E-Cigarette Use in UK Households (MG) |
| Organisation | University of Texas |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Doing the analyses and drafting papers |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaborating with Michaela Benzeval at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, who is providing early access to the data, and advice on analyses and interpretation |
| Impact | Publication PMID:29593026 |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Population Health Impact Assessment Tools: using population health data to improve chronic disease risk prediction (AL) |
| Organisation | Government of Canada |
| Department | Statistics Canada |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Statistical methods; use of linked Scottish Health Survey data; population risk factor studies |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development and application of population risk algorithms; use of Canadian and US linked survey data; population risk assessment |
| Impact | Funding received from Canadian Institute for Health Research: CA$498,956 (~£246,597) over 4 years. Paper PMID:32761580 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Population Health Impact Assessment Tools: using population health data to improve chronic disease risk prediction (AL) |
| Organisation | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Statistical methods; use of linked Scottish Health Survey data; population risk factor studies |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development and application of population risk algorithms; use of Canadian and US linked survey data; population risk assessment |
| Impact | Funding received from Canadian Institute for Health Research: CA$498,956 (~£246,597) over 4 years. Paper PMID:32761580 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Population Health Impact Assessment Tools: using population health data to improve chronic disease risk prediction (AL) |
| Organisation | University of Calgary |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Statistical methods; use of linked Scottish Health Survey data; population risk factor studies |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development and application of population risk algorithms; use of Canadian and US linked survey data; population risk assessment |
| Impact | Funding received from Canadian Institute for Health Research: CA$498,956 (~£246,597) over 4 years. Paper PMID:32761580 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Population Health Impact Assessment Tools: using population health data to improve chronic disease risk prediction (AL) |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Statistical methods; use of linked Scottish Health Survey data; population risk factor studies |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development and application of population risk algorithms; use of Canadian and US linked survey data; population risk assessment |
| Impact | Funding received from Canadian Institute for Health Research: CA$498,956 (~£246,597) over 4 years. Paper PMID:32761580 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Population Health Impact Assessment Tools: using population health data to improve chronic disease risk prediction (AL) |
| Organisation | University of Stirling |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Statistical methods; use of linked Scottish Health Survey data; population risk factor studies |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development and application of population risk algorithms; use of Canadian and US linked survey data; population risk assessment |
| Impact | Funding received from Canadian Institute for Health Research: CA$498,956 (~£246,597) over 4 years. Paper PMID:32761580 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Population Health Impact Assessment Tools: using population health data to improve chronic disease risk prediction (AL) |
| Organisation | University of Toronto |
| Department | Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Statistical methods; use of linked Scottish Health Survey data; population risk factor studies |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development and application of population risk algorithms; use of Canadian and US linked survey data; population risk assessment |
| Impact | Funding received from Canadian Institute for Health Research: CA$498,956 (~£246,597) over 4 years. Paper PMID:32761580 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Population Health Impact Assessment Tools: using population health data to improve chronic disease risk prediction (AL) |
| Organisation | University of Toronto |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Statistical methods; use of linked Scottish Health Survey data; population risk factor studies |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development and application of population risk algorithms; use of Canadian and US linked survey data; population risk assessment |
| Impact | Funding received from Canadian Institute for Health Research: CA$498,956 (~£246,597) over 4 years. Paper PMID:32761580 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Reporting guidelines for population health and policy interventions: TIDieR-PHP (VK) |
| Organisation | Bond University |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual input into design and conduct |
| Collaborator Contribution | Intellectual input into design and conduct |
| Impact | Paper published PMID:29769210 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Reporting guidelines for population health and policy interventions: TIDieR-PHP (VK) |
| Organisation | University of Melbourne |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual input into design and conduct |
| Collaborator Contribution | Intellectual input into design and conduct |
| Impact | Paper published PMID:29769210 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | SPHI Fiotec/Fiocruz |
| Organisation | Federal University of Bahia |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provision of research expertise in analysis of European and national data sets on welfare, hospitalization, inequalities and data linkage. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of 100M Cohort data set for analysis and expertise in Brazilian data sets on welfare, inequalities and data linkage. |
| Impact | Paper PMIDs: 30183845; 31596383; 31630122; 32520106; 32731877; 33444195; 33649053; 33886877; 34942103. Creation of the Brazilian Index of Deprivation. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | SPHI Fiotec/Fiocruz |
| Organisation | Federal University of Minas Gerais |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provision of research expertise in analysis of European and national data sets on welfare, hospitalization, inequalities and data linkage. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of 100M Cohort data set for analysis and expertise in Brazilian data sets on welfare, inequalities and data linkage. |
| Impact | Paper PMIDs: 30183845; 31596383; 31630122; 32520106; 32731877; 33444195; 33649053; 33886877; 34942103. Creation of the Brazilian Index of Deprivation. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | SPHI Fiotec/Fiocruz |
| Organisation | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) |
| Department | Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provision of research expertise in analysis of European and national data sets on welfare, hospitalization, inequalities and data linkage. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of 100M Cohort data set for analysis and expertise in Brazilian data sets on welfare, inequalities and data linkage. |
| Impact | Paper PMIDs: 30183845; 31596383; 31630122; 32520106; 32731877; 33444195; 33649053; 33886877; 34942103. Creation of the Brazilian Index of Deprivation. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | SPHI Fiotec/Fiocruz |
| Organisation | Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Provision of research expertise in analysis of European and national data sets on welfare, hospitalization, inequalities and data linkage. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of 100M Cohort data set for analysis and expertise in Brazilian data sets on welfare, inequalities and data linkage. |
| Impact | Paper PMIDs: 30183845; 31596383; 31630122; 32520106; 32731877; 33444195; 33649053; 33886877; 34942103. Creation of the Brazilian Index of Deprivation. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Scottish Administrative Data Research Centre (FP) |
| Organisation | Administrative Data Research Centre for Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research and analysis ideas |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data linkage |
| Impact | Huang, Z., Dibben, C., Kirby, G., Deary, I., Popham, F. & Connelly, F. (2015) The creation of an administrative data based 1936 Birth Cohort Study The Farr Institute International Conference 2015, University of St Andrews, UK, 26 - 28 August 2015 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Scottish Health Surveys 2012-15 |
| Organisation | National Centre for Social Research |
| Department | Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Part of the consortium; contributing to report chapter writing |
| Collaborator Contribution | Survey conduct |
| Impact | Successful funding bid; fieldwork has been completed for previous survey years and is currently underway for 2015. 2012, 2013 and 2014 annual report chapters have been published. Public engagement: SHeS consortium film appearance. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Scottish Health Surveys 2012-15 |
| Organisation | National Centre for Social Research |
| Department | Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Team members are part of the consortium; contributing to report chapter writing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Will publish report in which we author chapters |
| Impact | Successful bid for Scottish Health Survey contract (£3,800,000 over 5 years). Published 3 chapters in each SHeS report: 2012, 2013 and 2014. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Socio-economic analysis of the decline in CHD mortality in Scotland (CD) |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Department | Institute of Psychology, Health and Society |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration lead by team member. Protocol writing, data applications/sourcing, statistical analysis and paper writing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Clinical expertise in cardiovascular disease, treatments and risk factorsExpertise in modelling population trends in CHD mortality Clinical expertise in cardiovascular disease |
| Impact | Funding received from EU: €1,200,000 (~£1,000,000) over 3 years. Subsequent fellowship won from CSO. Multi-disciplinary: Statistics, Public Health, Epidemiology and Cardiology. Oral presentations to various conferences. Four papers published (PMID: 24503058; 26812643; 26422012; 26812643). |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Socioeconomic inequities in Finland |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health and Welfare |
| Country | Finland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Provision of methodological and analytical expertise; knowledge of inequalities; contribution to published papers |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of medical expertise; provision of access to detailed individually linked register data; knowledge of data; expertise in health services research. Expertise in demography |
| Impact | Funding obtained for collaborators from Academy of Finland. Several presentations. Several papers (PMIDs: 19124597, 18725853, 19897398, 22647563, 23286878, 25983615, 33201086). |
| Start Year | 2006 |
| Description | Socioeconomic inequities in Finland |
| Organisation | University of Helsinki |
| Department | Department of Social Research |
| Country | Finland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provision of methodological and analytical expertise; knowledge of inequalities; contribution to published papers |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of medical expertise; provision of access to detailed individually linked register data; knowledge of data; expertise in health services research. Expertise in demography |
| Impact | Funding obtained for collaborators from Academy of Finland. Several presentations. Several papers (PMIDs: 19124597, 18725853, 19897398, 22647563, 23286878, 25983615, 33201086). |
| Start Year | 2006 |
| Description | Supporting older people into employment (SOPIE): identifying factors influencing return to work in the over 50s (AL) |
| Organisation | Ingeus |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Statistical expertise, particularly multilevel modelling; expertise in social inequalities in health |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in work and health; expertise in return to work interventions; expertise in qualitative research, employment research, and labour economics |
| Impact | Papers published (PMID: 26674507; PMID:30368452) |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Supporting older people into employment (SOPIE): identifying factors influencing return to work in the over 50s (AL) |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Statistical expertise, particularly multilevel modelling; expertise in social inequalities in health |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in work and health; expertise in return to work interventions; expertise in qualitative research, employment research, and labour economics |
| Impact | Papers published (PMID: 26674507; PMID:30368452) |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Supporting older people into employment (SOPIE): identifying factors influencing return to work in the over 50s (AL) |
| Organisation | University of Stirling |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Statistical expertise, particularly multilevel modelling; expertise in social inequalities in health |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in work and health; expertise in return to work interventions; expertise in qualitative research, employment research, and labour economics |
| Impact | Papers published (PMID: 26674507; PMID:30368452) |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Timing of socioeconomic disadvantages through childhood and adolescent health and health behaviours |
| Organisation | University of Texas at Austin |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overall project lead, advising on the design, analysis and conduct of the study; performing analysis of UK data; lead authoring papers |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Texas at Austin: Analysis of US data; co-authoring papers (ongoing collaboration) |
| Impact | Publication PMID 29232621 |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Vignette study on lay views of successful aging (EW) |
| Organisation | University of Essex |
| Department | Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Project led by team member. Winner of competition to include experiment in Understanding Society Innovation Panel wave 8. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise on longitudinal surveys and successful aging. |
| Impact | Paper published PMID:29878183 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | (EK) Presented updates on the progress of developing approaches to improve survey-based alcohol consumption estimates for assessing the impact of Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) to Dr Mark Robinson, Senior Public Health Information Manager NHS-Health Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Mark from NHS- Health Scotland was impressed with the progress we have made so far in comparing different statistical approaches of improving alcohol consumption estimates in Scotland.This is because our research will be included in the review report to parliament when reviewing the impact of MUP after five years of its operation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | 15 minutes on health inequalities Podcast (MA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 20/11/20 In this podcast I was interviewed by Alastair Leyland and Ruth Dundas about a report I had written for the WHO re: reducing health inequities in the early years - introducing the rationale for focussing on the early years, the state of the evidence base, and options for policy-makers to reduce inequalities. It was launched on World Children's Day. https://t.co/n8pxCdXgW6?amp=1 17/04/2020 We recorded a podcast to explain why we need to study the health of care experienced children, what implications it has for health inequalities and what are our future plans. The aim was to introduce and advertise our research and reach potential audiences who would be interested in the results. the podcast was advertised via twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/user-776545020 |
| Description | A Schools Programme event on The Storm of the Century! Using data to anticipate extreme climate events (LG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The Royal Statistical Society Guy Lecturer, Dr Lee Fawcett introduced participants to the world of data analytics for environmental extreme events. Specifically considering the question 'Can we use data to estimate the probability of an event more extreme than we have observed before?'. This was co-organised by the Glasgow Royal Statistical Society local group and the School of Maths & Stats, University of Glasgow |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/sciencefestival/glasgowsciencefestival2019/schools/headline_636759_en.h... |
| Description | AP Public engagement activity (Become a Data Detective) at a local church group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This newly developed public engagement game, designed to communicate the value of and issues around research using linked data, was carried out at a local church group (with three groups of 10 young people). Run by Anna Pearce and Michael Green. The game prompted discussion around social influences on health and how data linkage can be carried out securely. Evaluation sheets indicated that 57% found the game quite or very exciting (40% neither exciting or boring); 50% would recommend playing the game to their friends; 71% understood more about data linkage as a result of playing; 86% believed that data linkage can be a good thing. This feedback and qualitative assessment by AP and MG has been used to improve the game for future use. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Advising advocacy organisation Obesity Action Scotland on analysis and reporting of the "Weight of the Nation" (LG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Met with the Obesity Action Scotland policy officer and intern undertaking the analysis of the "Weight of the Nation" to advise on the analysis and reporting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | An aetiological systematic review and meta-analysis on the association between prenatal multivitamins and Autism in children (C.Friel) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | British Dietetic Association Research symposium, on systematic review and meta-analysis produced from PhD research. An aetiological systematic review and meta-analysis on the association between prenatal multivitamins and Autism in children (oral presentation (virtual)) 02/12/2020 Invited presentation at the British Dietetic Association Research symposium, on PhD research project, Prenatal diet quality and the risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder (virtual) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Article in Guardian in November covering the publication of a systematic review of morbidity and mortality among people with experience of homelessness, imprisonment, sex work, or drug use (ET and VK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Vittal Katikireddi and Emily Tweed co-authored an Article in Guardian in November covering the publication of a systematic review of morbidity and mortality among people with experience of homelessness, imprisonment, sex work, or drug use. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/12/uk-poverty-inequality-prisons-sex-workers-drug-users |
| Description | Attending Holyrood Secondary School careers fair (MKH) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Had a stall a the careers fair for a local secondary school. Displayed a banner and played a powerpoint slide showcasing work in our Unit. Spoke to pupils and parents about careers in social research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | BBC Facebook Live Unequal Scotland? event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to the BBC Scotland Facebook Live event on inequalities (18/11/16). Linsay Gray actively particated in the event via posting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38003373 |
| Description | Blog for Maths Week Scotland (LG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Blog entitled "Maths for the Good of your Health" co-written for publication for the inaugural Maths Week Scotland which lead to plans for future participation in the annual event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.gov.scot/mathsweek |
| Description | Blog on Health in Scotland (LG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog entitled "All the latest on health in Scotland" co-written with ScotCen Social Research (arm of NatCen non-profit organisation which is Britain's leading centre for independent social research) colleague for publication on the SPHSU's blog site. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://sphsu.academicblogs.co.uk/all-the-latest-on-health-in-scotland/ |
| Description | CHiCS video for Explorathon 2020 (MA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We produced a short video to explain the aims of our research project. The goal was to share it during the Scotland wide online engagement event to get more followers for our project twitter page. We will later use the twitter page to disseminate findings and advertise project related events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/CHiCS_project |
| Description | Community visit by GCRF ARISE hub partners to Korail informal settlement in Dhaka (LG and AL) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Along with fellow partners in the ARISE consortium, we met with community members in the Korail informal settlement in Dhaka, Bangladesh. We met with several groups in respective settings. We visited a BRAC Maternity Center which is part of the Manoshi community based healthcare programme for pregnant women, meeting with the manager, doctors and community health workers before making a home visit to an expectant mother. We also had the chance to visit an urban development programme, meeting with members of a local community development organisation focused on fire prevention and community mobilisation. The discussions were valuable for gaining insight and capacity building for planning the co-produced ARISE research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://ariseconsortium.org/news-events/ |
| Description | Conference fringe event public talk (LG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Around 200 members of the public and Royal Statistical Society conference attenders attended the talk I gave entitled "Up in smoke" exploring time trends in young people's use of e-cigarettes and tobacco - during an event staged to promote engagement with and enthusiasm for statistics. The entertaining event was met with positive responses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Contribution to Wikipedia LG |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of a Wikipedia 'editathon' Linsay updated the entry for the Health Survey for England, and created a new page for partner organisation ScotCen Social Research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Survey_for_England_and_https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScotCen_So... |
| Description | Does maternal folic acid supplements in pregnancy influence autism spectrum disorder in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis (C.Friel) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentation at the Society for Social Medicine Annual Meeting, on systematic review and meta-analysis titled, Does maternal folic acid supplements in pregnancy influence autism spectrum disorder in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Does maternal nutritional status in pregnancy influence the development of Autism Spectrum Disorder in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis (C.Friel) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invitation to present at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, psychology department seminar series. Titled, Does maternal nutritional status in pregnancy influence the development of Autism Spectrum Disorder in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis Invited presentation on the seminar series for Columbia University, Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program. Titled, Does prenatal nutritional status alter the child's risk of Autistic Spectrum Disorder, and are health inequalities evident? A systematic review and meta-analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | ESRC Festival of Social Sciences Tobacco Free Generation: Where Next? (MG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I presented findings on smoke-free public places and e-cigarettes to the audience, and then had an expert panel debating them with the audience. We used live-polling to record audience reactions to the findings, and suggestions for further work. We then put together a post for our unit blog reporting on the audience reactions and promoted this post on Twitter to broaden the reach of the message and encourage further engagement with us. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | EUPHA Strategic Working Group 2019 (AL) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Alastair Leyland sat on the Working Group developing the strategy for the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) from 2020-2025. With 81 member organisations from 47 countries EUPHA represents thousands of individual public health researchers, teachers, practitioners and policy-makers across Europe. The new strategy has the potential to influence the way that public health is researched, taught and communicated across the continent. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | European Public Health Week Steering Group (AL) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Alastair Leyland was on the Steering Group for European Public Health Week in 2020 & 2021. EHPW is jointly organised by the European Public Health Association and WHO and comprises a variety of events in countries across Europe. In 2020 & 2021 these were moved online as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://eupha.org/EUPHW |
| Description | Facilitator for workshop on health inequalities at MVLS policy day (AL) (2016) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Jointly facilitated a workshop on health inequalities with the Scottish Government lead on health inequalities; gave presentation, facilitated discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Further advising advocacy organisation Obesity Action Scotland on analysis and reporting of the "Weight of the Nation" (LG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Follow-up discussion with the Obesity Action Scotland policy officer about the "Weight of the Nation" to advise on forthcoming data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.obesityactionscotland.org/ |
| Description | Gave Population and Health Research Group lunchtime seminar at the University of Andrews (AP) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Title: Combining the powers of cohorts and administrative data to tackle child health inequalities During this talk I discussed my current and planned research using cohorts (e.g. Millennium Cohort Study, Growing Up in Scotland) and administrative data (e.g. child health records, hospitalisations and prescribing information) to better understand child health inequalities and policy options for their reduction. It prompted discussions with other researchers about the use and quality of these data for examining and understanding health inequalities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Glasgow Declaration on Inequalities in Health (AL) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Glasgow Declaration summarised broad ranging discussions over the three days of the European Public Health conference 2014, drawing upon rapporteurs' notes across all the sessions. It represented a call to action for governments and the public health communities across Europe to address inequalities in health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://eupha.org/repository/conference/2014/Glasgow_2014_declaration.pdf |
| Description | Glasgow Science Festival - Royal Statistical Society STEM outreach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We lead an activity that uses sampling techniques to count the number of penguins in Antartica. As it was part of the Glasgow Science Festival, we interacted with over 100 participants to show them how maths and statistics can be used for science. It was raising awareness of Statistics and Data Science as career opportunities. Many said they enjoyed the activity and were pleased they had used their maths skills. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.rss.org.uk/RSS/Get_involved/Support_school_education/Hands-on_statistics/RSS/Get_involved... |
| Description | Guided discussion paediatric dietitians (C.Friel) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 8 paediatric dietitians based in NHS Fife, met for a guided discussion on health inequalities within their workplace. The discussion focused on the dietitian's understanding and perspectives on health inequalities. The discussion was lead by Catherine Friel. The topics discussed were what dietitians understood health inequalities to be, how they recognized disparities or disadvantage within their practice, their understanding of how health inequalities impacts on th effectiveness of their clinical practice and clinical outcomes, what causes inequalities, and if there was anything they could do to address inequalities. We identified that there was a good basic understanding of what health inequalities were and the causes. There were difficulties in identifying disadvantaged groups, with exception of extreme examples i.e. if there were welfare concerns. It was also identified that the effectiveness of outcomes and differential outcomes depending on socioeconomic status was generally unknown due to a lack of data. This was consistent with the evidence in the literature where some researchers raise a concern about the lack of data on the effectiveness of intervention by social class. It raised the additional issue of how to dietitians recognise disadvantaged groups, and the literature on this will be explored further within my PhD. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Have we got this covered? Consequences of and solutions to declining participation levels in health surveys |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | gave an invited seminar at Imperial College London, Department of Primary Care and Public Health on 27 March 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/school-public-health/primary-care-and-public-health/news/ |
| Description | Health and happiness roundtable (AL) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Three MPs from the parliamentary Labour Party, and their researchers, organised a roundtable with 9 experts from academia, think tanks and third sector organisations to discuss issues around health and happiness and, in particular, their measurement. AL provided expertise in health inequalities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Healthy Start Voucher Evaluation: public and patient involvement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented preliminary findings, obtained feedback to improve research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | IBP launch (MA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Gave a presentation and participated in panel discussion at the online launch of the Brazilian measure of Deprivation, IBP. The event was streamed on YouTube and also participants attended a zoom conference. There were over a 100 participants on zoom and the participation in the discussion was very active, there were a lot of requests for data and more information. There have been over 500 views on YouTube. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDFnQPGwvvM |
| Description | International Seminar on Health Surveys - conduct, content and reporting (IBGE, Rio de Janiero, Brazil) (RD) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | About 150 people attended the international workshop on health surveys. I presented on the usefulness of whole country small area deprivation measures for monitoring policies and progress to SDG, as well as for survey sampling and post-stratification weighting. IBGE reported they will consider adding the deprivation measures to its surveys. We will have further discussions with them. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Interview for French nursing magazine: (A.Purba): |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interview with french nursing magazine "L'Infirmière Magazine" to discuss recommendations outlined in previous discussion piece published in the Nursing Times titled 'How should the role of the nurse change in response to Covid-19?'. This interview stimulated discussion in the wider international nursing community on how the central recommendations of the discussion piece could be transposed to the French nursing context. 26/05/2020 Requested to write a discussion piece illustrating the ways by which the role of the nurse should change during and post the Covid-19 pandemic to not only benefit the wider public but the nursing profession itself. As a result of publishing this discussion piece, I was requested to speak on a vodcast for Unite Mental Health Nursing Association and was interviewed by French Nursing magazine "L'Infirmière Magazine" to discuss ways in which the outlined recommendations could be implemented in practice both at a national and international level. https://www.nursingtimes.net/clinical-archive/public-health-clinical-archive/how-should-the-role-of-the-nurse-change-in-response-to-covid-19-26-05-2020/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.espaceinfirmier.fr/actualites/200630-quelles-pracrogatives-pour-l-ide-post-covid.html |
| Description | Interview for The Times newspaper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Report in The Times on 22nd Feb 2019 on drug and alcohol deaths based on work published in the European Journal of Public Health for the paper "All-cause and cause-specific mortality in Scotland 1981-2011 by age,sex and deprivation: a population-based study" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/drug-deaths-and-suicides-increase-in-mid-life-men-ntqsjh6xn |
| Description | Interview for national news (ET) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview for newspaper article - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/child-removal-fuels-female-drug-deaths-jcwdx332c |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/child-removal-fuels-female-drug-deaths-jcwdx332c |
| Description | Invited keynote for webinar series on IBP launch (RD) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation on use of deprivation measures for policy, practice and research, as part of the webinar series to launch the Brazilian Deprivation Index (IBP). Over 200 people attended from all over Brazil including representatives of IBGE (Brazilian Statistics Agency, UN Development, Local, state policy and practice representatives. The discussion demonstrated a high interest in a national small area deprivation measure and resulted in further dialogue with IBGE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWreBqtVYs |
| Description | Invited presentation to industry (Palo Alto Research Center) (LG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talk presented by Linsay Gray on the essentials of record linkage, non-response and imputation including the developed methodology to Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox Company, Webster, New York, USA on 29 September 2015. Statisticians from industry in attendance learned about the methodology, participated in discussion and explored potential collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.parc.com/about/parc-xerox.html |
| Description | Invited talk (American Statistical Association) (LG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk presented by Linsay Gray on non-response bias correction of health survey estimates using record-linkage to the American Statistical Association Rochester chapter at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA on 11 May 2015. Statisticians from industry and the third sector as well as academia in attendance learned about the methodology and participated in discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://community.amstat.org/rochester/home |
| Description | Invited talk at Imperial College (MG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation at Imperial College London, spoke about ESRC and unit work to audience of 20-30 academics, students and doctors. Sparked some discussion afterwards and interest in further work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Involvement of co-researchers in the survey process in informal settlements (EK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The intended purpose of this presentation was to showcase how co-researchers who have lived realities in slums can be involved in facilitating health and wellbeing surveys for people living in informal settlements. Also, the general audience was introduced to survey theory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Joint workshop Department of Health & Department of Work and Pensions (London) (EC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Asked by Understanding Society Policy Unit to present my research findings at at invite-only workshop held within the Department of Health and Department of Work and Pensions in London, on the theme 'health, disability and employment transitions'. I was one of four people presenting to an audience of policy makers and analysts (approx 20 in London, and 20 on video-conference link in Leeds). Discussions following indicated interest in the work presented, and the work is being included in a follow-up written case study / policy-briefing, led by the Understanding Policy Unit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | LG The Royal Statistical Society Glasgow Local Group Gravitational Waves event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As part of the Royal Statistical Society Glasgow Local Group committee, we hosted this event which explored the statistical issues that arise in the detection of gravitational waves, with learning applicable to the wider application of statistics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://sites.google.com/site/rssglasgow/events |
| Description | Launch/stakeholder engagement: introduction to ARISE for policy, practice and community stakeholders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The ARISE launch meeting was held at the African Population Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi Campus, on the 15th February 2019. The purpose of the meeting was to formally launch the ARISE consortium as well as to explore priority areas for action in informal urban settlements from the perspective of a diverse set of stakeholders. The meeting brought together national and international stakeholders to share learning, experiences and reflections about the ARISE consortium as well as everyday issues facing people living in informal urban settlements. National stakeholders included representatives from; National and Regional Government, Nairobi County, Non-state actors (including community-based organisations and the media), and Slum community representatives. International stakeholders included researchers, programme implementers, NGDO partners, representatives from Federations of Slum Dwellers and communication experts currently engaged with the ARISE consortium from across our four country contexts: Bangladesh, India, Kenya, and Sierra Leone. Among the key activities were: presentations from the ARISE team including the federation of slum dwellers, SDI; group discussions on priority areas for action in informal urban settlements; and reflections from government and NGO stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://ariseconsortium.org/news-events/ |
| Description | Lunchtime talk for Glasgow Evaluation Group (M Hilton Boon) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | I delivered a presentation and Q&A session on "Evaluating programmes and policies with regression discontinuity" for the Glasgow Evaluation Group (an interest group for evaluators working primarily in the third sector or government. The session was delivered via Microsoft Teams and 32 people registered. Abstract: This session will help evaluators recognise situations in which regression discontinuity designs (RDD) may be used to identify the effects of programmes and policies. We will examine why RDD may be the next best thing to a randomised trial, the underlying assumptions and data requirements, and the strengths and limitations of this approach. We will also look at examples of how this method has been implemented in public health, education, and social policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | MUP Q&A session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | At a meeting of the poverty leadership panel, around 20-30 representatives of the local council, third sector and the local community in the Maryhill area of Glasgow heard us summarise the NIHR-funded MUP evaluation project and were then invited to ask questions. They were well engaged in a lively discussion about the implementation of the policy and the methodology of its evaluation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://mup.sphsu.gla.ac.uk |
| Description | Media coverage: Variation in inpatient costs (AL) (2016) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press coverage in the Scotsman of paper " Geographic variation of inpatient care costs at the end of life" (PMID:27025763) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Media engagement after relating to paper in Addiction journal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | MG did press release and press, radio and TV interviews after release of paper in Addiction journal |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3581117/Did-university-start-smoking-teens-likely-heavy-dr... |
| Description | Media interview about the refined alcohol consumption estimates |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Discussed newspaper article covering the refined Scottish Health Survey alcohol consumption estimates publication with health correspondent of national newspaper (14/03/17). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ |
| Description | Mountain Plot jigsaw |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | showcased the Mountain Plot jigsaw at the Wellcome Trust visit to MVLS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | My experience with administrative data (Ruth Dundas) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at UBDC workshop 'Working with Administrative Data: From Ideas to Research' in Manchester. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEpHh4eHdvZfzjRLEhVot-YdmZyAgtVyg |
| Description | National Population Projections mortality expert panel meeting (DB) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Mortality panel experts highlighted issues that may influence future demographic change |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | National television appearance related to publication of the annual Scottish Health Survey report |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Linsay Gray particated as a discussion panel member on national television talking about the Scottish Health Survey as report author (20/09/16). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://player.stv.tv/ |
| Description | On-site training on MUP research design and tools designed and delivered to research nurses in EDs and research staff in SHCs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Training ensured consistency of interview procedures and addressed the logistics of iPad data collection |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Opinion Piece: Nursing Times 'Enhance the NHS nursing workforce's contribution to tackle Covid-19' (A.Purba) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Opinion Piece: Nursing Times 'Enhance the NHS nursing workforce's contribution to tackle Covid-19' Whilst undertaking PhD research, I wrote an opinion piece discussing a number of approaches which could be adopted to reduce the baseline demand on the NHS and flatten the curve. This opinion piece was published on the Nursing Times website and disseminated widely through both academic and health care networks. As a result of this piece the Nursing Times have commissioned a larger discussion piece building on the key points outlined in the opinion piece. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.nursingtimes.net/opinion/enhance-the-nhs-nursing-workforces-contribution-to-tackle-covid... |
| Description | PHINS seminar (RD) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Delivered invited presentation to 200 people at the PHINS conference. It sparked much discussion and interest in the topic of prioritising population health, drove traffic to SPHSU BLog post on the subject and therefore highlighted work of Unit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCv-XqgzcU8 |
| Description | PPE discussion on baby box (RMcC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conducted PPE to inform PhD study on Baby Box scheme. Met with mothers in the Drumchapel area of Glasgow |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in Scottish Universities Insight Institute knowledge exchange event An international and intersectional dialogue on how to reduce harm and promote wellbeing amongst people who have housing health and substance use challenges (Emily Tweed) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I attended the first of a series of three knowledge exchange events hosted by the Scottish Universities Insight Institute on the topics of homelessness, substance use, and mental health. The events aim to bring together academics, policymakers, third sector organisations, practitioners, and people with lived experience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/ViewProgramme/tabid/5828/pid/145/rdid/5827/Default.aspx |
| Description | Participation in podcast for European Public Health Week (LG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jointly interviewed Ruth Dundas as part of the launch of '15 minutes on Health Inequalities' podcast series, with a podcast entitled 'Mortality from social determinants vs COVID-19'. This was specifically about the contrast in the levels of prioritisation given to population health and health inequalities during a pandemic and during "normal" times. Ppublic health agencies and governments everywhere have responded to the growing numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths. However, deaths from various causes occur every day and are not distributed evenly across societies. We contrast responses to COVID-19 and inequality. The podcast was broadcast as HW108 - Mortality from social determinants vs COVID-19 as part of the EPHW 'Equal health for all day' taking place on Thursday 14 May 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Podcast: 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Recorded a podcast discussing key findings from this award, and released it on UK national no smoking day (10th March) for maximum effect/reach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/user-776545020/15-minutes-on-health-inequalities-michael-green |
| Description | Policy Meeting - Health: HSV (RD) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Shared work from Evaluation of Healthy Start Vouchers with policy lead and colleagues in Child and Maternal Health at Scottish Government |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Policy Meeting - Health: HiP (RD) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Shared work from Evaluation of Health in Pregnancy Grant with policy lead and colleagues in Child and Maternal Health at Scottish Government |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation associated with GKE small grants visit to Helsinki (MA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of the Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Small grants I gave a presentation and participated in a day-long workshop on inequalities in health at the Finish Cancer Register. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at the Glasgow Lighthouse Laboratory (PC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Researchers at the Unit presented examples of recent and ongoing research into the effects of COVID-19 on social inequalities in health to testing staff at the Glasgow Lighthouse Laboratory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation given at the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR) network meeting (DB) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented work on investigating health outcomes for care experienced children. Was asked to share details of the project, initial findings and challenges with the data linkage. Around 25 SCADR network members (academics, SG, eDRIS) participated, and the presentation generated discussion around networking and future work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Press Release & Blog on SEP/E-cigs work (MG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Blog post on the key messages from a paper for the BMC series blog, and re-posted on our unit website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2020/02/10/social-inequalities-in-vaping-why-smoking-ma... |
| Description | Primary School Visit for Maths Week 2019 (FC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Delivered Royal Statistical Society "How Many Penguins" activity (https://www.rss.org.uk/Images/PDF/get-involved/2018/How_many_penguins_vP1.pdf) with Ruth Dundas at Our Lady of the Annunciation Primary School in Glasgow as part of Maths Week 2019. We did this with two classes (primary 6 and primary 7). Began session by each talking about the role of maths/statistics in our current jobs, and I talked about being a data scientist and "Big Data". General aim was to show pupils the range of careers possible using maths/the different ways maths can be used, and the aim of the activity was to introduce them to sampling. There was time after the activity for the children to ask us questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Publication of the ARISE-ing to the challenge blog (LG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog written by Linsay Gray on the experience of participating in the ARISE inception meeting has been published at both the MRC/CSO SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT blog sites and on the GCRF ARISE Hub consortium website. The blog acts to promote the programme of work and the associated integral stakeholder engagement. This has been met positively with reported deepening of understanding of the Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://ariseconsortium.org/arise-ing-to-the-challenge/ |
| Description | Published blog entitled "Much ado about next to nothing: tracking progress on reducing exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke" at the UK Data Service's Data Impact blog (LG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog co-written by Linsay Gray with Sean Semple on tracking progress on reducing exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke. It gives direction on improved statistical methods to calculate average values when handling large proportions of 'non-detects'. This is in addition to highlighting the large scale reduction - 97% - in non-smoking adults' exposure to second-hand smoke in Scotland between 1998 and 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/much-ado-about-next-to-nothing/ |
| Description | RSS Environmental Statistics talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Glasgow Local Group - on which Unit staff members Ruth Dundas (treasurer) and Linsay Gray are committee members - joint with the Edinburgh local group and RSS Environmental Statistics Section organised an invited session at the 26th Annual Conference of the International Environmetrics Society conference at the University of Edinburgh delivered on 21st July. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Royal Statistical Society Glasgow Science Festival The Power of Data; Murder, Gambling and Disease event attended by over 200 S4-S6 school pupils. (RD) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Over 200 pupils attended for a visit to the Glasgow Science Festival, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, and the schools reported increased interest in STEM subject areas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/sciencefestival/eventsandprojects/glasgowsciencefestival2017/schools/he... |
| Description | Ruth Dundas, Linsay Gray and Anna Pearce a public enagagement activity (Become a Data Detective) to a local primary school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The game is designed to communicate the processes and benefits of data linkage to children and young people, as well as prompt discussions about social determinants of health. It was played with 18 P7 pupils, in two batches of nine. The children were visibility engaged and enjoyed playing. Evaluation sheets showed that 94% found the game quite or very exicting and two thirds would recommend playing to their friends. It was sufficiently challenging and all children felt that the game was either about the right length or that they would like to have played for longer. 78% felt they understood more about data linkage after playing the game, and 78% believed that data linkage could be a good thing. A follow up email from the teacher confirmed that the children had enjoyed the session and learning about health research. Qualitative assessment by RD, LG and AP has been used to refine the game for future use. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ruth, Alastair, Danny invited to meet with representatives from Directorate for Children and Families at Scottish Government to discuss Healthy Start Voucher evaluation and SG plans for Best Start, HSV and other devolved benefits. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | TBC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | STEM ambassador engagement at secondary school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This was a careers fair at a local secondary school. Myself and another PhD student attended as STEM ambassadors, where we discussed there the research undertaken at the unit and our own personal journeys that led us there. We used the opportunity to emphasise that scientific research is generally broader and interdisciplinary than traditionally conceived and used the SPHSU as an example of this. The event lasted a whole day and all year groups attended |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | SUII Workshop presentation (MG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation to Scottish Universities Insight Institute workshop series on basic income: Peace of Mind: Exploring Universal Basic Income's Potential to Improve Mental Health |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/UNGlobalGoals/UniversalBasicIncomeandMentalHealth.aspx |
| Description | School Visit (Kelvindale Primary) (MG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Took the Health in the City game to a P3 class and did presentation on careers in social sciences, before running the Health in the City activity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | School careers video on Public Health Research (MKH) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Due to restrictions my daughter's school asked us to make a short career video in lieu of a careers night. Mine was on Public Health Research. The teachers posted it on Teams, I believe, and also on the school website so that parents could view with their children. I also passed on the video to friends for their young people to watch. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://holyrood-sec.glasgow.sch.uk/aspirational-mentoring-programme/ |
| Description | Science Festival event, "Yeah, but is it significant?" (LG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Science Festival event organised by the Glasgow Local Group of the Royal Statistical Society [Linsay Gray and Ruth Dundas are committee members] along with the University of Glasgow School of Mathematics and Statistics. The event was attended by S5 and S6 students from local schools on thinking mathematically about chance and risk and how to unpick causality from noisy data in real life settings presented by the 2014 Royal Statistical Society Schools lecturer Dr. Jennifer Rogers (Oxford University) and Mitchell Lecturer Liberty Vittert (University of Glasgow). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.glasgowsciencefestival.org.uk/ |
| Description | Scotsman Health correspondent for YouthLink for Tuesday 14th March (CS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Stewart discussed the findings in the paper 'Cancer-related health behaviours of young people not in education, employment of training (NEET).: a cross sectional study with the Scotsman Health Correspondent Kevan Christie. The article was published in the Scotsman on Saturday 04th February. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Scottish government presentation (RS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The double burden of mortality inequalitiy in Scotland: the case for measuring life expectancy and lifespan variation by socioeconomic deprivation - presentation on PhD analysis to policy & health analysts, statisticians and stake holders at the scottish government |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Short film on University of Glasgow's involvement in ARISE (LG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Short film promoting the University of Glasgow's involvement in the GCRF-funded ARISE hub consortium |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxhIPXOeUiw |
| Description | Stakeholder engagement and programme launch for the GCRF ARISE hub - Accountability in urban health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Introduction to ARISE for policy, practice and community stakeholders. Slum community groups, the media, civil society, government and academia gathered together at the African Population Health Research Center in Nairobi to celebrate the first public consultation of the new ARISE Hub. The launch day was a chance to learn more about the priorities of Kenyan stakeholders to better understand how the team can move forward in a collaborative way. Additionally reached out to unicef UK and Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/news-events/news/launching-arise-in-kenya |
| Description | Student milestone event (RMcC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Spoke for a 3 minute thesis (3MT) at the student led milestone event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Successful Aging (Elise Whitley) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on Successful Aging to Centre fo Population Change |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | The Royal Statistical Society Glasgow Local Group Data Science AGM event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As part of the Royal Statistical Society Glasgow Local Group committee, we hosted this event which explored the role of the data scientist and take a whistle-stop tour through the vast constellation of associated software and tools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://sites.google.com/site/rssglasgow/events |
| Description | Took Health in the city game to Glasgow primary school during health week. (MKH) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Ruth and Mary-Kate did the Health in the City game with two classes at a local primary school during their health week. The children learned about how environmental changes can improve health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018 |
| Description | Understanding the health behaviours of individuals not in education, employment or training: The 'NEETs in Need' Study (CS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of results to funders and cancer experts at CRUK Cancer Prevention Innovation Showcase for advice on further development of project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/default/files/2015_funded_cancer_prevention_innovation_projec... |
| Description | Virtual Stakeholder Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Set up a network of stakeholders interested in the grant. Disseminated project protocol and received feedback from representatives at ASH Scotland, NHS health Scotland, the Scottish Government, and Public Health England, which has helped shape the protocol. ASH offered help in dissemination of the findings when they are ready. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Visit to Vertus Charter School, Rochester, New York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Linsay Gray visited Vertus Charter School in Rochester, New York where she spoke to pupils and parents about a career in statistics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.vertusschool.org/ |
| Description | Vodcast: UNITE Mental Health Nurses Association (A. Purba) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Vodcast with UNITE Mental Health Nurses Association to discuss the recommendations outlined in a discussion piece published in the Nursing Times titled 'How should the role of the nurse change in response to Covid-19?'. Available on multiple platforms including Youtube and Facebook. Consequently, this activity led to further discussion on the subject area with the nursing and academic community to identify ways these recommendations could be implemented in practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfNJQohRuLA&t=811s&ab_channel=Unite%2FMentalHealthNursesAssociation |
| Description | Workshop on data linkage and deriving deprivation measures in India (RD) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We held a workshop discussing the potential for data linkage to evaluate social policy and health inequalities in India. The audience included the Census Commissioner of the Government of India, representatives of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, and researchers from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and the Centre for the Integration of Data and Knowledge for Health, Salvador, Brazil. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Workshop on data linkage and deriving deprivation measures in Karnataka (RD) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We held a workshop discussing the potential for data linkage to evaluate social policy and health inequalities in the state of Karnataka, India. The audience included the Chief Secretary of the Department of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of Karnataka; representatives of the United Nations Population Fund India, the Karnataka Statistical System Development Agency, and the Karnataka Evaluation Authority; and researchers from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, and the Centre for the Integration of Data and Knowledge for Health, Salvador, Brazil. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Workshop with school children on health inequalities (Ruth Dundas) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Developed and facilitated a session on Health Inequalities at St Denis' Primary School in Dennistoun as part of a collaborative project between the Institute for Health and Wellbeing and Glasgow City Council called "Determined to Animate" which resulted in pupils producing a short film animation on the topic of health inequalities. The films were judged by a range of experts in animation and public health, and St Denis' were awarded the first prize. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/GlasgowESPTeam/status/804830822759071744 |
| Description | World Cities Day 'Lunchtime Lightning Talks' research competition and networking event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Participated in a showcase of urban research in celebration of the United Nations 'World Cities Day' by presenting on the GCRF ARISE hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/events/worldcitiesdaylunchtimelightningtalks/#/speaker... |