About Us

Professor Sinead Brophy is Professor of Public Health Data Science at Swansea University Medical School, Deputy Director of the National Centre for Population Health and Well-being and Lead of Early years in the Administrative Data Research Partnership Wales.

Her area of expertise lies in population health, epidemiology, Big Data analytics and linking research data (cohort, trials, surveys) with routine health and administrative data. She is a member of the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) of the MHRA (CPRD) and training Lead in Wales/NI HDRUK.

Her research interests focus on using routine linked data to better inform healthy development and healthy working life research. To take a life course (from birth, to school, to work, to retirement) approach to population health. She is especially interested in evidence based interventions and improving the use of existing data including work on detecting and examining multi-morbidity in children, predicting diagnosis of inflammatory disease, with a special interest in arthritis.

She has published over 176 research articles and actively publishes articles in The Conversation , including:

Conversation Articles :

Children who have afternoon school breaks are fitter but need a supportive environment. //://theconversation.com/children-who-have-afternoon-school-breaks-are-fitter-but-need-a-supportive-environment-122229

Eating disorders: early warning signs identified. //://theconversation.com/eating-disorders-early-warning-signs-identified-119886

Achieving then failing in primary school is a sign of future teenage depression //://theconversation.com/achieving-then-failing-in-primary-school-is-a-sign-of-future-teenage-depression-90982

Antipsychotics used to manage autism and intellectual disability behaviour can have serious side effects – new study //://theconversation.com/antipsychotics-used-to-manage-autism-and-intellectual-disability-behaviour-can-have-serious-side-effects-new-study-90983

Babies with healthier diets are more active and sleep better – new findings //://theconversation.com/babies-with-healthier-diets-are-more-active-and-sleep-better-new-findings-109477

Six ways to get teenagers more active – suggested by the teens themselves //://theconversation.com/six-ways-to-get-teenagers-more-active-suggested-by-the-teens-themselves-90980

Outdoor learning has huge benefits for children and teachers — so why isn’t it used in more schools? //://theconversation.com/outdoor-learning-has-huge-benefits-for-children-and-teachers-so-why-isnt-it-used-in-more-schools-118067

Recent research articles not also published in the conversation:

Mild-to-moderate renal pelvis dilatation identified during pregnancy and hospital admissions in childhood: An electronic birth cohort study in Wales, UK. Hurt L, Wright M, Demmler J, VanDerVoort J, Morris S, Brook F, Tucker D, Chapman M, Francis NA, Daniel R, Fone D, Brophy S, Paranjothy S. PLoS Med. 2019 Jul 30;16(7):e1002859. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002859. eCollection 2019 Jul.

Cardiovascular risk factors predicting cardiac events are different in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and psoriasis. Cooksey R, Brophy S, Kennedy J, Gutierrez FF, Pickles T, Davies R, Piguet V, Choy E. Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2018 Dec;48(3):367-373. doi: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2018.03.005.

Educational Attainment at Age 10-11 Years Predicts Health Risk Behaviors and Injury Risk During Adolescence. Demmler JC, Hill RA, Rahman MA, Bandyopadhyay A, Healy MA, Paranjothy S, Murphy S, Fletcher A, Hewitt G, John A, Lyons RA, Brophy ST. J Adolesc Health. 2017 Aug;61(2):212-218. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.02.003. Epub

Development of an algorithm for determining smoking status and behaviour over the life course from UK electronic primary care records. Atkinson MD, Kennedy JI, John A, Lewis KE, Lyons RA, Brophy ST; DEMISTIFY Research Group.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2017 Jan 5;17(1):2. doi: 10.1186/s12911-016-0400-6.

Risk of Adverse Outcomes for Older People with Dementia Prescribed Antipsychotic Medication: A Population Based e-Cohort Study. Dennis M, Shine L, John A, Marchant A, McGregor J, Lyons RA, Brophy S. Neurol Ther. 2017 Jun;6(1):57-77. doi: 10.1007/s40120-016-0060-6.

His research program addresses the understanding and prevention of cardiovascular disease using a wide range of clinical research methods including non-invasive vascular imaging, biomarkers, clinical trials and real-world population healthcare datasets. Within Data Sciences he is the lead for cardiovascular disease research for the HDR-UK research Centre in Swansea and heads up an expanding cardiovascular outcome research group. His team is focusing on the use of routinely held data to explore drivers of adverse outcomes in people with and at increased risk of cardiovascular disease in order to identify opportunities to improve cardiovascular health at an individual and population level. He and his team have a strong collaborative research network across Swansea University (SUMS, HHS, Engineering) and more widely in the UK and Internationally.

He is Academic Lead for the Welsh Cardiovascular Society; Chair of the All-Wales Working Group for CVD Prevention; a member of the Cochrane Heart Group Editorial Board; member of the Medical Sciences and Review Committee for HEART-UK; and Scientific Director and committee member of the Charity “Heart Research Wales”.