Alejandra Letelier

Dr. Alejandra Letelier serves as Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University within the School of Allied Health and Social Care (Faculty of Health, Medicine and Social Care), specializing in social epidemiology through a life course framework. Her research critically examines structural drivers of health inequalities with particular focus on young carers, digital determinants of health, and human rights intersections.

Education

• PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London (UCL)
• MSc in Dental Public Health, University College London (UCL)
• BDS of Dental Surgery, Universidad de los Andes-Chile

Her work integrates longitudinal analysis of major datasets (English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Millennium Cohort Study, Mexican Health and Ageing Study) to investigate how socioeconomic trajectories shape health outcomes across generations. Current projects emphasize young carers' educational attainment and digital health disparities, employing mixed methods to bridge academic research with policy implementation.

Publication trends reveal consistent focus on vulnerable populations across the lifespan, with recent work analyzing pandemic impacts on caregiving youth and structural determinants of oral health inequalities. Her scholarship demonstrates methodological rigor in propensity score analysis and life course modeling to isolate causal pathways in health disparities.

Research Leadership

• Nuffield Foundation Project (2023-2026): Long-term effects of young caring
• COORDINATE Fund TAV (2024): Young Carers' peer relationships
• NIHR North Thames ARC (2024): Care sector impacts on young carers
• Becas Chile CONICYT PhD Fellowship (2013-2018): Intergenerational mobility

Dr. Letelier actively supervises postgraduate research while contributing to national policy through Nuffield Foundation briefings on young carers' educational outcomes, demonstrating commitment to translating research into systemic interventions for health equity.