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Dr Ania Zylbersztejn
Senior Research Fellow in Public Health Data Science
Population, Policy & Practice Dept
UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
- Joined UCL
- 1st Apr 2016
Research summary
My work focuses on use of administrative health records(e.g.: primary and secondary care records, birth and death certificates) tostudy health outcomes of children and their families. I currently work as part of the HOPE study which investigates the impact of adjustments for special educational needs or disability (SEND) on children’s health using linked education and health data from the ECHILD database.
Previously, I worked with data from primary and secondary care to explore mental andphysical health of children with learning disability or autism, their mothersand siblings (as part of the long-term conditions theme of the NIHR Children'sPolicy Research Unit).
I am interested in international comparisons of child healthoutcomes. In my PhD, I compared mortality in children aged less than 5 yearsold in England and Sweden. I developed national birth cohorts fromadministrative health records in the two countries to determine the contributionof birth characteristics and socio-economic factors to excess child mortalityin England relative to Sweden. I also explored intercountry differences inmortality due to potentially preventable causes and I was involved in a projectcomparing recording of congenital anomalies in hospital records in England andScotland.
Education
- University College London
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 2018
- University of Leicester
- Other higher degree, Master of Science | 2014
- University of Warwick
- Other higher degree, Bachelor of Science and Master of Science | 2013
Biography
I completed a PhD in epidemiology at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research, in collaboration with the Centre for Health Equity Studies at Stockholm University. I used routinely collected health records to develop national birth cohorts in England and in Sweden, to determine why child mortality is nearly two times higher in England than in Sweden. Prior to the PhD, I studied MORSE at University of Warwick and I hold MSc in Medical Statistics from University of Leicester. My research interests include international comparisons child health, epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus, and health of children with learning disabilities and complex health needs.