Population Health Data Science Research Seminar Series

Staff and students from Queen Mary and Barts Health NHS Trust are invited to join us, to: 

• See and share examples of research excellence in health data science from across the Wolfson Institute of Population Health (WIPH) and Barts Cancer Institute (BCI), Queen Mary, Barts Health, and more widely
• Develop deeper knowledge of the many health data sources available for research and hear directly from colleagues who are using them
• Meet new collaborators and share expertise in using electronic health records and multimodal data to improve population health

Upcoming

Thursday 5 December 2024, 12.00-12.50

Marta Wilk & Nicola Firman: Using pseudonymised addresses in household health research

Marta and Nicola present methods and findings from two innovative research projects that use Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) and GP records to study the wider determinants of health. Marta used pseudonymised UPRNs to link data on health and property size. By doing so, she was able to find that living in an overcrowded house with a small amount of space per person is associated with an increased likelihood of mental illness or depression diagnosis. 

Nicola analysed health information and addresses for 169,000 children in North East London to explore the hypothesis that children who move home frequently are less likely to receive routine vaccinations. She studied the association between number of addresses in the first two years of life and receipt of MMR vaccination by age two, finding that MMR uptake was indeed lower in children with multiple addresses.

Past seminars

With the consent of the speakers, recordings of our seminars are available to watch here after the event.

Organising committee

Co-chairs: Rohini Mathur, Jianhua Wu (WIPH) and Claude Chelala (BCI) 
Committee members: Paris Baptiste, Fabiola Eto, Harriet Larvin, Jing Hui Law, Judith Offman, Stuart Rison, Mary Thomas, Nicola Firman (WIPH)