Area of research
Genetics · Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Research interest
Research interests include Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Child and Adolescent Health, and Microscopic Colitis.
Is alcohol use disorder associated with higher rates of depression and anxiety among people with new onset type 2 diabetes? A cohort study using linked primary care data in England
Children and adolescents are not small adults: toward a better understanding of multimorbidity in younger populations
Supported online self-management versus care as usual for symptoms of fatigue, pain and urgency/incontinence in adults with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD-BOOST): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Universal weekly testing as the UK COVID-19 lockdown exit strategy
Depression in individuals who subsequently develop inflammatory bowel disease: a population-based nested case–control study
Prevalence and Duration of Gastrointestinal Symptoms Before Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Predictors of Timely Specialist Review: A Population-Based Study
Impact of a pay-for-performance scheme for long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) advice on contraceptive uptake and abortion in British primary care: An interrupted time series study
Improving the assessment and management of obesity in UK children and adolescents: the PROMISE research programme including a RCT
The global, regional, and national burden of inflammatory bowel disease in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
Impact of preventive primary care on children’s unplanned hospital admissions: a population-based birth cohort study of UK children 2000–2013
Do Thiopurines Reduce the Risk of Surgery in Elderly Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease? A 20-Year National Population-Based Cohort Study
Burden of child and adolescent obesity on health services in England
Survey of antiobesity drug prescribing for obese children and young people in UK primary care
Primary Care Access, Emergency Department Visits, and Unplanned Short Hospitalizations in the UK
Steroid dependency and trends in prescribing for inflammatory bowel disease – a 20‐year national population‐based study
Impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on childhood otitis media in the United Kingdom
Adiposity and carotid-intima media thickness in children and adolescents: a systematic review
Child obesity cut-offs as derived from parental perceptions: cross-sectional questionnaire
Impact of early thiopurines on surgery in 2770 children and young people diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease: a national population-based study
Development and evaluation of an online tool for management of overweight children in primary care: a pilot study
The benefits and harms of providing parents with weight feedback as part of the national child measurement programme: a prospective cohort study
‘Health and happiness is more important than weight’: a qualitative investigation of the views of parents receiving written feedback on their child's weight as part of the National Child Measurement Programme
The impact of timing and duration of thiopurine treatment on colectomy in ulcerative colitis: a national population‐based study of incident cases between 1989–2009
Predictors of health-related behaviour change in parents of overweight children in England
Can the relationship between ethnicity and obesity-related behaviours among school-aged children be explained by deprivation? A cross-sectional study
Perceptions of health risk among parents of overweight children: A cross-sectional study within a cohort
Scoping the impact of the national child measurement programme feedback on the child obesity pathway: study protocol