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Dr Jenny Mindell

  • Telephone:

    020 7679 1269

  • Extension:

    41269

  • Fax:

    020 7813 0242

  • Email:

    j.mindell@ucl.ac.uk

  • Webpage:

    http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hssrg

  • Address:

    204 HSSRG, Dept Epidemiology & Public Health,
    1-19 Torrington Place,
    London,
    WC1E 6BT

  • Appointments:

    Clinical Senior Lecturer, Epidemiology & Public Health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health

Summary

Dr Mindell is a public health physician with experience in epidemiological research, teaching, general practice, and health promotion.  She leads the UCL team dealing with the Health Survey for England (HSE) and other national diet & nutrition and health examination surveys in the UK.  She is also involved in work across Europe to develop comparable health examination surveys.  A major interest is in policies that affect determinant of health and inequalities. She has published many papers in peer-reviewed journals, particularly on cardiovascular disease and its risk factors; tobacco control; transport and health; health impact assessment (HIA); and reports and briefings aimed at a range of audiences.

She is principal investigator of a large cross-research council grant to develop tools to measure community severance at the individual, street, and area level, working with colleagues in UCL's Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering Faculty and Bartlett Graduate School.  She started the Faculty of Public Health's transport and health network and is vice-chair of the Transport and Health Study Group (THSG), leading the work to revise and update its seminal report Health on the Move.  She is Editor-in-chief of the new Journal of Transport and Health.

Before coming to UCL, she was Deputy Director of the London Health Observatory.She has also worked in the Clinical Trials Unit in Oxford and in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Imperial College London.

She led a two-year cancer prevention programme in Oxford, where she developed extensive expertise in health promotion, particularly tobacco control, in which she has since been involved at a national level, both as a Trustee of ASH, Action on Smoking and Health, and for the Faculty of Public Health, on whose Non-Communicable Disease Advisory Group she sits.

Research Summary

Dr Mindell's main research areas are:

  • Transport and health
  • Survey methodology
  • Health & inequality impacts of policies outside the health services
  • Behavioural risk factors for chronic diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease and cancers

Research Activities

  • Cardiovascular and cancer risk factors
  • Health geography
  • The suburban food basket: the role of spatial setting and social context in providing access to healthy food

Recent Publications

Displaying 50 most recent publications. For the full list please visit UCL Discovery

  1. Gordon-Dseagu VLZ,Shelton N,Mindell J (2013) Diabetes, overweight/obesity and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: evidence from the health survey for England and Scottish Health Survey linked to mortality data DIABETIC MEDICINE, 30, 136 - 136.
  2. Davis J,Banks I,Wrigley D,Peedell C,Pollock A,McPherson K,McKee M,Irving WL,Crome P,Greenhalgh T,Holland W,Evans D,Maryon-Davis A,Smyth A,Fleming P,Coleman M,Sharp DJ,Whincup P,Logan S,Cook D,Moore R,Rawaf S,McEewen J,West R,Yudkin JS,Clarke A,Finer N,Domizio P,Bambra C,Jones A,Feder G,Scott-Samuel A,Irvine L,Sharma A,Fitchett M,Boomla K,Folb J,Paul A,McCoy D,Tallis R,Burgess-Allen J,Edwards M,Tomlinson J,Colvin D,Gore J,Brown K,Mitchel S,Lau A,Sayer M,Clark L,Silverman R,Marmot S,Rainbow D,Carter L,Mann N,Fielding R,Logan J,Tebboth L,Arnold N,Stobbart K,Cabot K,Finer S,Edwards M,Davies D,Buttivant H,Kraemer S,Newell J,Griffiths A,Fitzgerald R,Macgibbon R,Lee A,Macklon AF,Hobson E,Jenner D,Jacobson B,Timmis A,Salim A,Evans-Jones J,Caan W,Awsare N,Pride N,Suckling R,Bratty C,Rossiter B,Hawkins D,Currie J,Camilleri-Ferrante C,Fluxman J,Bhatti O,Anson J,Etherington R,Lawrence D,Fell H,Clarke E,Ormerod J,Ormerod O,Ireland M,Duncan JA,Chandy R,Mindell J,Mullen P,Bennett-Richards P,Hirst J,Murphy E,Martin P,Lowes S,Fleming P,Grunewald R,Reeve J,Schweiger M,Coates J,Farrelly G,Chamberlain MA,Lewis G,Young J,Scott B,Gibbs J,Landers A,Deveson P,Ingrams G,Leigh M,Gawler J,Ford A,Nixon J,McCartney M,Bareford D,Singh S,Lockwood K,Cripwell M,Ehrhardt P,Bell D,Wortley P,Tomlinson L,Hotchkiss J,Ford S,Turner G,Reissman G,Lewis D,Johnstone C,Tomson M,Torabi P,Bell D,Tomson D,Tulloch A,Johnston S,Dickinson J,McElderry E,Ross W,Holt K,Logan M,Klonin H,Jenner D,Danby J,Goodger V,Puntis J,Dickson H,Gould DA,Livingstone A,Lefevre D,Kendall B,Singh G,Hall P,Darling J,Hamlyn AN,Patel A,Erskine J,Fisher B,Hughes R,Highton C,Venning H,Singer R,Brearey S,Sikorski J,Paintin D,Feehally J,Savage W,Freud KM,Holt VJ,Gill A,Waterston T,Souza RD,Hopkinson N,Beadsworth M,Franks A,Daley H,Cullinan P,Basarab A,Folb J,Gurling H,Zinkin P,Kirwin S,Buhrs E,Brown R,West A,Marlowe G,Fellows G,Main J,Applebee J,Koperski M,Jones P,Macfarlane A,Beer N,Mason R,West R,Eisner M,Smailes A,Timms P,Knight D,Jones C,Wesby B,Lyttelton L,Morrison R,Bossano D,Walker J,Davies G,Godfrey P,Wolfe I,Nsutebu E,Stevenson N,Cheeroth S,Miller J,Johnson G,Noor R,Hall A,Bostock D,Michael B,Sharvill J,Macpherson J,Lewis D,Ma R,Middleton J,Jeffreys A,Cole J,Boswell JP,Bury B,Mitchison S,Kinmonth AL,Young G,Maclennan I,Munday P (2013) Act now against new NHS competition regulations: an open letter to the BMA and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges calls on them to make a joint public statement of opposition to the amended section 75 regulations. BMJ, 346, f1819.
  3. Gordon-Dseagu VL,Shelton N,Mindell JS (2013) Epidemiological evidence of a relationship between type-1 diabetes mellitus and cancer: a review of the existing literature. Int J Cancer, 132(3), 501 - 508. 10.1002/ijc.27703.
  4. Mindell J,Moody A,Ali A,Hirani V (2013) Using longitudinal data from the Health Survey for England to resolve discrepancies in thresholds for haemoglobin in older adults. Br J Haematol, 160(3), 368 - 376. 10.1111/bjh.12121.
  5. Roth MA,Mindell JS (2013) Who provides accelerometry data? Correlates of adherence to wearing an accelerometry motion sensor: the 2008 Health Survey for England. J Phys Act Health, 10(1), 70 - 78.
  6. Oyebode O,Mindell J (2013) Use of data from the Health Survey for England in obesity policy making and monitoring. Obes Rev, 14(6), 463 - 476. 10.1111/obr.12024.
  7. Mindell JS,Reynolds L,Cohen DL,McKee M (2012) All in this together: the corporate capture of public health. BMJ, 345, e8082.
  8. Mindell J,Aresu M,Bécares L,Tolonen H (2012) Representativeness of participants in a cross-sectional health survey by time of day and day of week of data collection. Eur J Public Health, 22(3), 364 - 369. 10.1093/eurpub/ckr093.
  9. Mindell JS,Leslie D,Wardlaw D (2012) EXPOSURE-BASED ASSESSMENT OF MODAL TRAVEL RISK IN ENGLAND USING ROUTINE HEALTH DATA JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 66, A13 - A13. 10.1136/jech-2012-201753.033.
  10. Gordon-Dseagu VLZ,Mindell J,Shelton N (2012) ALL-CAUSE AND CAUSE-SPECIFIC MORTALITY AMONG INDIVIDUALS WITH AND WITHOUT DIABETES IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 66, A22 - A22. 10.1136/jech-2012-201753.057.
  11. Kuulasmaa K,Tolonen H,Koponen P,Kilpeläinen K,Avdicová M,Broda G,Calleja N,Dias C,Gösswald A,Kubinova R,Mindell J,Männistö S,Palmieri L,Tell GS,Trichopoulou A,Verschuren WM (2012) An overview of the European Health Examination Survey Pilot Joint Action. Arch Public Health, 70(1), 20. 10.1186/0778-7367-70-20.
  12. Mindell JS,Dinsdale H,Ridler C,Rutter HR (2012) Changes in waist circumference among adolescents in England from 1977-1987 to 2005-2007. Public Health, 126(8), 695 - 701. 10.1016/j.puhe.2012.05.004.
  13. Hingorani AD,Sofat R,Morris RW,Whincup P,Lowe GD,Mindell J,Sattar N,Casas JP,Shah T (2012) Is it important to measure or reduce C-reactive protein in people at risk of cardiovascular disease? Eur Heart J, 33(18), 2258 - 2264. 10.1093/eurheartj/ehs168.
  14. Asher L,Aresu M,Falaschetti E,Mindell J (2012) Most older pedestrians are unable to cross the road in time: a cross-sectional study. Age Ageing, 41(5), 690 - 694. 10.1093/ageing/afs076.
  15. Mindell J,Biddulph JP,Hirani V,Stamatakis E,Craig R,Nunn S,Shelton N (2012) Cohort profile: the health survey for England. Int J Epidemiol, 41(6), 1585 - 1593. 10.1093/ije/dyr199.
  16. Mindell JS,Karlsen S (2012) Community severance and health: what do we actually know? J Urban Health, 89(2), 232 - 246. 10.1007/s11524-011-9637-7.
  17. Sims M,Mindell JS,Jarvis MJ,Feyerabend C,Wardle H,Gilmore A (2012) Did smokefree legislation in England reduce exposure to secondhand smoke among nonsmoking adults? Cotinine analysis from the Health Survey for England. Environ Health Perspect, 120(3), 425 - 430. 10.1289/ehp.1103680.
  18. Jarvis MJ,Sims M,Gilmore A,Mindell J (2012) Impact of smoke-free legislation on children's exposure to secondhand smoke: cotinine data from the Health Survey for England. Tob Control, 21(1), 18 - 23. 10.1136/tc.2010.041608.
  19. Stafford M,Soljak M,Pledge V,Mindell J (2012) Socio-economic differences in the health-related quality of life impact of cardiovascular conditions. Eur J Public Health, 22(3), 301 - 305. 10.1093/eurpub/ckr007.
  20. Gray L,Merlo J,Mindell J,Hallqvist J,Tafforeau J,O'Reilly D,Regidor E,Næss Ø,Kelleher C,Helakorpi S,Lange C,Leyland AH (2012) International differences in self-reported health measures in 33 major metropolitan areas in Europe. Eur J Public Health, 22(1), 40 - 47. 10.1093/eurpub/ckq170.
  21. Mindell J,Shelton N,Roth M,Chaudhury M,Falschetti E (2012) Persistent regional variation in treatment of hypertension Public Health. 10.1016/j.puhe.2012.01.008.
  22. Hopkinson NS,Nicholl DJ,O'Kane K,Cohen D,Mindell J,Pollock A,Cummin A,Kay L,Silvey N,Stone S,Robertson J (2012) Defending the UK's National Health Service. Lancet, 380(9836), 26 - 27. 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60995-7.
  23. Negev M,Levine H,Davidovitch N,Bhatia R,Mindell J (2012) Integration of health and environment through health impact assessment: cases from three continents. Environ Res, 114, 60 - 67. 10.1016/j.envres.2012.02.003.
  24. Roth MA,Millett CJ,Mindell JS (2012) The contribution of active travel (walking and cycling) in children to overall physical activity levels: a national cross sectional study. Prev Med, 54(2), 134 - 139. 10.1016/j.ypmed.2011.12.004.
  25. Mindell JS,Leslie D,Wardlaw M (2012) Exposure-Based, 'Like-for-Like' Assessment of Road Safety by Travel Mode Using Routine Health Data. PLoS One, 7(12), e50606. 10.1371/journal.pone.0050606.
  26. Roderick P,Roth M,Mindell J (2011) PREVALENCE OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE IN ENGLAND: FINDINGS FROM THE 2009 HEALTH SURVEY FOR ENGLAND J EPIDEMIOL COMMUN H, 65, A12 - A12. 10.1136/jech.2011.143586.26.
  27. Roth MA,Mindell JS (2011) WHO WEARS AN ACCELEROMETER? CORRELATES OF ADHERENCE TO WEARING AN ACCELEROMETRY MOTION SENSOR: THE 2008 HEALTH SURVEY FOR ENGLAND J EPIDEMIOL COMMUN H, 65, A27 - A27. 10.1136/jech.2011.143586.60.
  28. McKee M,Hurst L,Aldridge RW,Raine R,Mindell JS,Wolfe I,Holland WW (2011) Public health in England: an option for the way forward? Lancet, 378(9790), 536 - 539. 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60241-9.
  29. (2011) Health on the Move 2.
  30. Mindell JS,Cohen JM,Watkins S,Tyler N (2011) Synergies between low-carbon and healthy transport policies P I CIVIL ENG-TRANSP, 164(3), 127 - 139. 10.1680/tran.2011.164.3.127.
  31. Mindell JS (2011) Older People's Health.
  32. Mindell J,Aresu M,Zaninotto P,Falaschetti E,Poulter N (2011) Improving lipid profiles and increasing use of lipid-lowering therapy in England: results from a national cross-sectional survey - 2006. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf), 75(5), 621 - 627. 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.04094.x.
  33. Mindell JS,Roth MA (2011) ACTIVE TRAVEL IN CHILDREN AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO OVERALL ACTIVITY LEVELS J EPIDEMIOL COMMUN H, 65, A8 - A8. 10.1136/jech.2011.143586.17.
  34. MacGregor A,Mindell JS (2011) Cardiovascular Disease Diagnoses and Symptoms, 1.
  35. Mindell J,Rutter H,Watkins S (2011) Transportation: Impact on Human Health: Urban transportation..
  36. Mindell J,Karlsen S (2010) Crossing boundaries-why community severance needs an interdisciplinary approach EUR J PUBLIC HEALTH, 20, 258 - 258.
  37. Watkins S,Mindell J (2010) Transport and health. Perspect Public Health, 130(2), 57.
  38. Mindell J,Shelton N,Roth M,Chaudhury M,Falaschetti E (2010) PERSISTENT REGIONAL VARIATION IN TREATMENT OF HYPERTENSION J EPIDEMIOL COMMUN H, 64, A55 - A56. 10.1136/jech.2010.120477.57.
  39. Mindell J,Biddulph J,Taylor L,Lock K,Boaz A,Joffe M,Curtis S (2010) Improving the use of evidence in health impact assessment. Bull World Health Organ, 88(7), 543 - 550. 10.2471/BLT.09.068510.
  40. Swerdlow D,Sofat R,Shah T,Kuchenbaecker K,Mindell J,Kumari M,Kivimaki M,Casas JP,Brunner E,Hingorani A (2010) OPTIMISING THE SELECTION OF GENETIC MARKERS FOR MENDELIAN RANDOMISATION EXPERIMENTS ATHEROSCLEROSIS SUPPLEMENTS, 11(2), 36 - 36.
  41. Shahab L,Mindell J,Poulter NR,West R (2010) Hypertension and its identification among current, past and never smokers in an English population sample Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil, 17(1), 63 - 70.
  42. Mindell J,Bowen C,Herriot N,Findlay G,Atkinson S (2010) Institutionalizing health impact assessment in London as a public health tool for increasing synergy between policies in other areas. Public Health, 124(2), 107 - 114. 10.1016/j.puhe.2010.01.007.
  43. Shelton N,Mindell J (2010) Measuring Health.
  44. Stamatakis E,Zaninotto P,Falaschetti E,Mindell J,Head J (2010) Time trends in childhood and adolescent obesity in England from 1995 to 2007 and projections of prevalence to 2015 Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 64(1), 167 - 174. 10.1136/jech.2009.098723.
  45. Tipping S,Hope S,Pickering K,Erens B,Roth MA,Mindell JS (2010) The effect of mode and context on survey results: analysis of data from the Health Survey for England 2006 and the Boost Survey for London. BMC Med Res Methodol, 10, 84. 10.1186/1471-2288-10-84.
  46. Mindell JS,Tipping S,Pickering K,Hope S,Roth MA,Erens B (2010) The effect of survey method on survey participation: analysis of data from the Health Survey for England 2006 and the Boost Survey for London. BMC Med Res Methodol, 10. 10.1186/1471-2288-10-83.
  47. Mindell J,Dinsdale H,Ridler C (2010) CHANGES IN WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE AND BMI IN ADOLESCENTS IN ENGLAND FROM 1977/1987 TO 2005-2007 J EPIDEMIOL COMMUN H, 64, A19 - A19. 10.1136/jech.2010.120956.48.
  48. Hirani V,Tabassum F,Aresu M,Mindell J (2010) Development of new demi-span equations from a nationally representative sample of adults to estimate maximal adult height. J Nutr, 140(8), 1475 - 1480. 10.3945/jn.109.118430.
  49. Hirani V,Tull K,Ali A,Mindell J (2010) Urgent action needed to improve vitamin D status among older people in England! Age and Ageing, 39(1), 62 - 68.
  50. Chaudhury M,Stamatakis E,Roth M,Mindell J (2010) OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE METHOD OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY MEASUREMENT IN A CROSS-SECTION OF ENGLISH ADULTS: HEALTH SURVEY FOR ENGLAND 2008 J EPIDEMIOL COMMUN H, 64, A47 - A47. 10.1136/jech.2010.120477.35.

Biography

Dr Mindell is a public health physician with experience in epidemiological research, teaching, general practice, and health promotion.  She leads the UCL team dealing with the Health Survey for England (HSE) and other national diet & nutrition and health examination surveys in the UK.  She is also involved in work across Europe to develop comparable health examination surveys.  A major interest is in policies that affect determinant of health and inequalities. She has published many papers in peer-reviewed journals, particularly on cardiovascular disease and its risk factors; tobacco control; transport and health; health impact assessment (HIA); and reports and briefings aimed at a range of audiences.

She is principal investigator of a large cross-research council grant to develop tools to measure community severance at the individual, street, and area level, working with colleagues in UCL's Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering Faculty and Bartlett Graduate School.  She started the Faculty of Public Health's transport and health network and is vice-chair of the Transport and Health Study Group (THSG), leading the work to revise and update its seminal report Health on the Move.  She is Editor-in-chief of the new Journal of Transport and Health.

Before coming to UCL, she was Deputy Director of the London Health Observatory.She has also worked in the Clinical Trials Unit in Oxford and in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Imperial College London.

She led a two-year cancer prevention programme in Oxford, where she developed extensive expertise in health promotion, particularly tobacco control, in which she has since been involved at a national level, both as a Trustee of ASH, Action on Smoking and Health, and for the Faculty of Public Health, on whose Non-Communicable Disease Advisory Group she sits.

Qualifications

  • 2002: Doctor of Philosophy, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
  • 1980: Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery, University of London
  • 1977: Bachelor of Science (Honours), University of London

Keywords

  • Action research
  • Active travel
  • Angina
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Behaviour
  • Biomarker
  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular
  • Cardiovascular and cancer risk factors
  • Cohort research studies
  • Community severance
  • Coronary disease
  • Cross-sectional and cohort studies
  • Determinants of health (transport and tabacco)
  • Diabetes
  • Diabetes
  • Epidemiology
  • Epidemiology
  • Epidemiology research
  • Ethnic health
  • Health impact assessments
  • Health inequalities
  • Heart disease
  • Inequalities
  • Inequalities
  • Lipid
  • Long term conditions
  • Nutrition
  • Obesity
  • Obesity
  • Observational
  • Physical activity
  • Prognosis
  • Public health
  • Statistics
  • Stroke
  • Survey
  • Surveys
  • Systematic review
  • Tabacco control
  • Transport
  • Vitamin D