A Swansea University-led study has highlighted the importance of parental health literacy, and suggests those with higher understanding and access to medical information were more likely to take their child to be tested for COVID-19 and be identified as positive. Supported by the National Centre for Population Health & Wellbeing Research (NCPHWR), academics from Population…
COVID-19 infection increases the risk of potentially life-threatening blood clots for at least 49 weeks, according to a new study of health records of 48 million unvaccinated adults from the first wave of the pandemic. The findings suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic may have led to an additional 10,500 cases of heart attacks, strokes and…
01 September 2022 – We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Adam Chee from the Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS-ISS) as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science (FMHLS) at Swansea University. The appointment will see Dr Adam Chee working with…
At the recent Swansea Academy of Learning and Teaching Conference, Senior Lecturer and Programme Director for the MSc in Health Informatics in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science at Swansea University, Judy Jenkins, was presented with an Excellence in Teaching Award. Judy, who has been lecturing on the subject for a number of…
Co-director of Population Data Science and Clinical Professor of Public Health at Swansea University, Professor Ronan Lyons, OBE, FMedSci, has been elected to a prestigious European body, the Academia Europaea. ‘The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics,…
Based within Population Data Science at Swansea University Medical School, SAIL Databank is one of only five European population databases recognised in a new study that has the potential to link data across medicine, pregnancy, breastfeeding and infant and maternal health. This capability enables researchers to understand these complex inter-relationships. The impact of maternal medicines…
13th October 2022 | 9:00 – 17:00 | Sophia Gardens, Cardiff Health and Care Research Wales’ 8th annual conference will take place on 13th October 2022 at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff. The theme of this year’s event is Where would we be without research? The conference will showcase ground-breaking health and social care research as…
Dates: 7th to 9th September 2022 | University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Pre-conference workshops: 5th to 6th September 2022 Attending the 2022 Conference and interested in the workshops on offer? You can now sign up to them on Crowd by clicking the “Events” option in the left-hand side menu of the IPDLN group. Please note that capacity…
Alcohol use during childhood could be associated with poor health outcomes later in life – such as alcohol abuse, alcohol dependence and other negative outcomes including poor educational attainment, death, and disability according to the findings of a recent study. In this study, a collaborative team led by researchers from the National Centre for Population…
The UK Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Register is not only celebrating a decade of vital data collection and research, it has also secured another £2 million of funding. The UK MS Register, based in Population Data Science in Swansea University Medical School is a world-leading research project in MS that uses real world data as part…
