Public Health Doctoral Students

CURRENT 

Name   NADIA AHMED H ALGHAMDI
Degree PhD
Title  PhD in Social and Public Health Sciences (Research)
Supervisor 1   Craig Andrew Melville (Mental Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2   Kirsty Dawn Dunn (Mental Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 3   Danny Mackay (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Funding  Embassy of the State of Kuwait
Start year  2017
Intended finish year  2022

Name   SALEH ALI M ALMAZAM
Degree PhD
Title  Understanding sub-groups in clinical trial
Supervisor 1   David McAllister (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2   Claire Niedzwiedz (Mental Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 3   James Lewsey (HEHTA, University of Glasgow)
Funding  Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia
Start year  2019
Intended finish year  2022

Name   KHALID ALSALLUMI
Degree PhD
Title  Use of serious adverse event reporting as a metric of representativeness in clinical trials for pharmacological intervention of novel antidiabetics
Supervisor 1   David McAllister (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2   Claire Niedzwiedz (Mental Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 3   James Lewsey (HEHTA, University of Glasgow)
Funding  Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia
Start year  2019
Intended finish year  2022

Name   JIRAPITCHA BOONPOR
Title Type 2 diabetes
Supervisor 1 Carlos Celis (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2 Fred Ho (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 3 Stuart Gray (Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Start year 2019
Intended finish year 2023

Name   ELAINE BUTTERLY
Degree  MD
Title  Understanding multimorbidity in diabetes
Supervisor 1   David McAllister (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2   Robert Lindsay (Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Funding  Wellcome Trust
Start year  2019
Intended finish year  2023

Name   MOHYUDIN DINGLE
Degree  MD
Title  Identifying the effects of Acceleration and Deceleration forces sustained by Critically unwell and injuries patients during aeromedical retrieval by the Scottish Ambulance Service
Supervisor 1   Danny Mackay (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2   Jill Pell (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Funding  Scottish Ambulance Service - ScotSTAR
Start year  2018
Intended finish year  2022

Name  PETER HANLON
Degree  PhD
Title  Understanding prevalence and impact of frailty in chronic illness and implications for clinical management
Supervisor 1   Frances Mair (General Practice & Primary Care, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2   David McAllister (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 3   James Lewsey (HEHTA, University of Glasgow)
Funding  Medical Research Council
Start year  2019
Intended finish year  2022

Name   VICTORIA HARKINS
Degree  PhD
Title  Long-term healthcare outcomes of paediatric STEC-HUS and AKI
Supervisor 1   David McAllister (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2   Ben Reynolds (Medicine, University of Glasgow)
Funding  Kidney Research UK
Start year  2018
Intended finish year  2022

Name   MOHAMMAD ABDU A JAREEBI
Degree  PhD
Title  Smoking, genetics and health in UK Biobank
Supervisor 1   Donald Lyall (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2   Danny Mackay (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 3   Michael Fleming (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Funding  Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia
Start year  2019
Intended finish year  2023

Name UDUAK NTUK
Degree  PhD
Title  Epidemiological study on cardiovascular risk using UK Biobank data
Supervisor 1   Jill Pell (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2   Naveed Sattar (Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Funding  Niger Delta Development Commission
Start year  2013
Intended finish year  2022

Name   SOLANGE LILIANA PARRA SOTO
Degree  PhD
Title  Modifiable and genetic risk factors of Cancer mortality
Supervisor 1   Carlos Celis (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2   Jill Pell (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 3   Frederick Ho (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Funding  CONICYT - Chile
Start year  2019
Intended finish year  2022

Name   DAVID ROSS
Degree  PhD
Title  UK Women in Ground & Close Combat
Supervisor 1   Danny Mackay (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2   Beverley Bergman (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 3   Evi Germeni (HEHTA, University of Glasgow)
Funding  WGCC Research Team, Ministry of Defence
Start year  2018
Intended finish year  2022

Name   IOANA STANCIU
Degree  PhD
Title  PhD Public Health (Research)
Supervisor 1   Donald Lyall (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2   Stefan Siebert (Immunology, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 3   Danny Mackay (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Funding  MVLS Graduate School DTP Studentship
Start year  2019
Intended finish year  2022

Name   ADELE WARRILOW
Degree  PhD
Title  Development of a global neurodevelopment risk score predictive of later life adversity
Supervisor 1   Jill Pell (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2   Geoff Der (MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 3   Anna Cooper (Mental Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow)
Funding  Medical Research Council
Start year 2013
Intended finish year  2021

Name   LILI WEI
Degree  PhD
Title  Use clinical trials and routine health care data to re-estimate treatment effectiveness in the real-world populations
Supervisor 1   James Lewsey (HEHTA, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2   David McAllister (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Funding  Self funding
Start year  2018
Intended finish year  2022

Name   LISONG ZHANG
Degree  PhD
Title  Tracking is not enough: a user-friendly platform of wearable self-monitoring for healthcare
Supervisor 1   James Lewsey (HEHTA, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2   David McAllister (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Funding  Self funding
Start year  2019
Intended finish year  2022

Name   ZIYI ZHOU
Degree PhD
Title Prediction and risk stratification of obesity
Supervisor 1 Jill Pell (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Supervisor 2 Frederick Ho (Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Start year 2021
Intended finish year 2025

RECENTLY COMPLETED

Name   FANNY PETERMANN ROCHA
Degree 
PhD
Year of award 
2022

Name   EMMA RUSSELL
Degree 
PhD
Year of award
2022
The influence of football on lifelong health and neurodegenerative disease

Name   RACHANA TANK
Degree  PhD
Year of award 2022
Genetic and cardiometabolic contirbution to cognitive, structural brain and biomarker phenotypes

Name   KIRSTIN LESLIE
Degree  PhD
Year of award 2020  
Adherence to cardiovascular medication across Scotland

Name   ALEX MARSHALL
Degree  PhD
Year of award 2020
Development and validation of novel data science tools for quantifying drug exposure using routinely collected data

Name CHRIS MOULTRIE
Degree  MD
Year of award 2020  
Queueing theory applied to pre-hospital and retrieval medicine

Name MARIAN OKON
Degree  PhD
Year of award 2020  
The role of environmental pollution in urban and rural health inequalities in Nigeria

Name DAVID BLANE
Degree 
PhD
Year of award 
2018
Understanding the role of primary care in the management of adults with co-morbid obesith: a mixed-methods programme

Name  AMY FERGUSON 
Degree 
PhD
Year of award 
2018
Identification of novel endophenotypes for bipolar disorder using genetic risk score analysis 

Name NASSER ALDEKHAIL
Degree  PhD
Year of award  October 2017
Pharmacotherapy and weight management: efficacy and clinical effectiveness in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes

Name BREDA CULLEN
Degree  PhD
Year of award  2017
Cognitive Function in People with Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in UK Biobank

Name SHADRACH DARE
Degree  PhD
Year of award  2017
A multilevel mixed methods study of neonatal mortality in Ghana

Name  DANIEL MARTIN
Degree  
MD
Year of award  
2017
Investigating the associations, outcomes and treatment of cardiometabolic diseases in affective disorder

Name  KATHRYN ANN PUXTY
Degree  MD
Year of award  2017
The characteristics and outcomes of patients with solid tumours admitted to Intensive Care in the West of Scotland

Name CLAIRE WILLIAMS
Degree  PhD
Year of award  2017
Exploring multi-state modelling in an epidemiological and health economics context

Name MEGAN YATES
Degree  PhD
Year of award  2017
Inequalities in Mortality Amenable to Healthcare Intervention in Scotland