UCL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Research Interests

Research Description

Research interests include the link between working conditions and health; causes and consequences of sickness absence; the association between type of alcoholic beverage and heart disease; factors contributing to social inequalities in physical and mental health; pathways from childhood to adult health. Current interests in statistical methodology include: analysis of longitudinal data, missing data, survival analysis, modelling non-linear dose-response relationships, multilevel models.

UCL Collaborators

External Collaborators

Keywords

Cohort studies, Epidemiology, Statistics

Conditions

Depressive disorders, Heart disease, Health inequalities

Methods

Psychosocial research, Statistics, Longitudinal analysis, Multilevel models, Biostatistics, Population Survey methods

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Publications

Teaching & Education Interests

Education Interests

Statistical methods for longitudinal studies

Education Description

Jenny Head teaches on the MSc Health and Society: Social Epidemiology. She also organises advanced statistics courses for postgraduate students throughout UCL including 'Statistical Methods for Epidemiology and Social Science' and 'Multilevel models for Health Research'.