About
Professor Lucy Griffiths is a Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology at Swansea University, affiliated with the Health Data Science department within the Swansea University Medical School. She holds roles including Co-lead of the Environment and Health Research Centre (ENVHE), and participates in high-impact collaborations with organizations like Health Data Research UK Wales and Administrative Data Research (ADR) Wales. Her research focuses on using linked administrative and survey data to study child health, social care systems, and environmental influences on development.
Educated at the University of Kent (BSc), University of Bristol (MSc/PhD), and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MSc in Epidemiology), she brings over a decade of postdoctoral experience from University College London. Her teaching includes epidemiology and child health modules, and she supervises MSc/PhD students as an HEA Fellow.
Key research themes include ethnic disparities in child welfare, longitudinal birth cohort studies, and environmental determinants of health behaviors. She co-leads the BEACHES project exploring built environments’ impact on child activity patterns and contributes to Wales’ Generation New Era birth cohort study. Her work integrates multi-sectoral data to address societal challenges, such as vaccine equity and family justice system vulnerabilities.
Lucy’s professional roles extend to leadership in the Welsh Graduate School of Social Sciences, the Society for Social Medicine, and steering groups for population health initiatives. She advocates for cross-disciplinary data linkage to improve policy and practice in child welfare, public health, and social care.
