Project Code MRCPHS25Ba McGrogan Research Theme Population Health Sciences Project Summary Download Summary Did you know that only 5% of medicines licensed in the UK have sufficient evidence about their safety in pregnancy? Women may be advised not to use…
Causal inference tools to study vaccines using real-world data: how can we make better use of negative control outcomes?
Project Code MRCPHS25Ba McDonald Research Theme Population Health Sciences Project Summary Download Summary “Vaccination saves lives! Observational vaccine studies are important to assess real-world effectiveness and safety, but people who receive vaccines differ from those who do not, so confounding…
Parental transmission of substance use: exploring mechanisms and informing intervention
Project Code MRCPHS25Ba Hines Research Theme Population Health Sciences Project Summary Download Summary Reducing substance use is a key goal within public health. Recent work has shown that a strong predictor of adolescent substance use is the substance use of…
An investigation of the factors that influence post-disaster mental health in a Brazilian birth cohort study
Project Code MRCPHS25Ba Halligan Research Theme Population Health Sciences Project Summary Download Summary Exposure to traumatic events like disasters is a major risk factor for poor mental health. However, understanding of the pre-existing factors that contribute to better or worse…
Bridging the gap: combining epigenetics and neuroimaging to shed new light on brain development and mental health in a population-based context
Project Code MRCPHS24Ba Walton Research Theme Population Health Sciences Full Project Description Please download the below document for a full project description and to see the full supervisory team. Summary Epigenetic processes (e.g., DNA methylation) play a key role in…
Parental transmission of substance use: exploring mechanisms and informing intervention
Project Code MRCPHS24Ba Hines Research Theme Population Health Sciences Full Project Description Please download the below document for a full project description and to see the full supervisory team. Summary Reducing substance use is a key goal within public health.…
Examining pathways from childhood trauma exposure to cardiometabolic disease risk: a population health study based on the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort
Project Code MRCPHS24Ba Halligan Research Theme Population Health Sciences Full Project Description Please download the below document for a full project description and to see the full supervisory team. Summary Childhood trauma is a risk factor for cardiometabolic disease (CMD),…
Investigating how physical activity prevents cancers in humans: harnessing ‘big’ data to understand the genomic profile of human cancers that are preventable by physical activity
Project Code MRCPHS24Ba Campbell Research Theme Population Health Sciences Full Project Description Please download the below document for a full project description and to see the full supervisory team. Summary How physical activity prevents cancers is unknown. It has been…