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