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Dr Aparna Shankar

Name: Aparna Shankar	Email: aparna.shankar@ucl.ac.uk
Title: Dr	Tel: +44 (0)20 76791895 Internal 41895
Position: Research associate	Fax: +44 (0)20 7813 0242
Department: Epidemiology & Public Health, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care	Address: 1 - 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB
Research Theme: Ageing and wellbeing, Population health	Web Page: www.ucl.ac.uk/psychobiology

Research & Teaching Profile

Research Interests: Clustering of health behaviours; Health behaviour change; Health and ageing; Health inequalities at older ages

Research Description: Dr Shankar is currently working on a project aimed at understanding the socioeconomic and psychosocial determinants of multiple health behaviours in older adults using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. She is also interested in the social cognitive predictors of maintenance of health behaviours and the impact of gender, ethnicity and deprivation on access to care and the management of conditions.

UCL Collaborators: Prof Andrew Steptoe, Dr Anne McMunn

External Collaborators: Prof Mark Conner, Dr Fiona Jones, Prof Nick Freemantle, Dr Melanie Calvert

Conditions:

Methods: Psychosocial research; Statistics; Longitudinal analysis; Population Survey methods

Keywords: Behaviour; Psychosocial factors; Ageing

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Publications List: Generated from the UCL research publications database.