I am a Professor of Health Informatics with expertise in evaluating natural experiments and non-randomised intervention studies using anonymised linked administrative and health datasets, and I am the joint lead of ARC NWC’s Evidence4Impact Theme.
I am principal investigator for an NIHR funded study evaluating the mental health and wellbeing impact of access to green and blue spaces (e.g. parks and beaches).
I am an investigator on the Wellcome Trust funded birth cohort Children Growing Up in Liverpool and Civic Data Cooperative data linkage initiative.
We are working with partners across the north to use routinely collected data to help clinicians provide better care for their patients.
From 2006-2018 I worked at Swansea University, establishing data linkage methodologies enabling retrospective individual level exposure allocation.
My research focuses on using safe haven data that have been linked across health, social and environmental domains to explore the impact of exposures such as decent housing conditions, alcohol outlets, pollution, and natural outdoor spaces, on health and wellbeing.