SAIL Databank News. Published 18/06/2025 It is widely known that the COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted healthcare across the globe. Now, researchers from Swansea University have used linked electronic health records to reveal how the pandemic affected healthcare use differently for people living with long-term health conditions across different parts of Wales. This latest study, published in…
A new study published in Eurosurveillance led by Professor Rhiannon Owen at HDR UK Wales investigated how COVID-19 affected deaths across Wales. Researchers looked at both deaths directly caused by COVID-19 and deaths from other causes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study, funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences, carried out in collaboration with the…
Published: May 1st, 2024. The Conversation. Author: Dr Michaela James, The National Centre for Population Health & Wellbeing Research. The COVID pandemic affected several aspects of children’s health and wellbeing. The number of children referred to specialist mental health teams in England has soared by more than 50% in just three years, for example. But recent research from my colleagues and I…
In this blog post Hope Jones, Early Years Researcher, National Centre for Population Health & Wellbeing Research (NCPHWR), shares with us her inspirational journey into research. What did you do before joining NCPHWR? I went to Bangor University where I studied BSc (Hons) Psychology and then specialised in MSc Neuroimaging. While I was a student,…
The new Healthy Households Project, funded by ADR UK, is set to transform how researchers analyse household data in the UK. Led by Dr Richard Fry, Professor of Environment and Health at Population Data Science at Swansea University and ADR Wales themeatic lead, this project aims to create a comprehensive dataset linking housing data with…
A new ADR Wales Data Insight examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the mental health of children that are clinically extremely vulnerable or living with clinically extremely vulnerable people in Wales. In March 2020, people deemed clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) to severe illness or death from Covid-19 were advised to ‘shield’ at home, remaining indoors…
Published: August 29th, 2023. The Conversation. Authors: Hope Jones and Professor Sinead Brophy, The National Centre for Population Health & Wellbeing Research. During the pandemic, there had been concerns from healthcare professionals that the restrictions placed on daily life would lead to a disruption in breastfeeding. But our new research shows that the number of women who continued to exclusively…
A Swansea University-led study revealed breastfeeding rates in Wales increased during the pandemic. The research, which included all women in Wales who gave birth between 2018 and 2021, found that breastfeeding rates at six months were higher during Covid compared to the pre-pandemic period – with rates increasing from 16.6 per cent before the pandemic…
