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Professor Andrea Sherriff is Professor of Epidemiology and Statistics at the University of Glasgow's School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, based at Glasgow Dental Hospital & School. She serves as Director of Postgraduate Student Affairs in the Dental School and leads the Child Oral Health Data Lab within the unit. Her research focuses on oral health epidemiology, statistical analysis of large health datasets, and evaluation of public health interventions.
Dr. Sherriff graduated from Strathclyde University with a first class BSc (Hons) in Mathematical Sciences in 1991 and received her PhD in Statistics and Modelling Sciences in 1996. She previously worked with the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ASLPAC), completed a Wellcome Trust Training Fellowship in Mathematical Biology, and was seconded to the Laboratory of Statistical Genetics at Rockefeller University. She joined the University of Glasgow in 2008 as a Lecturer in Statistics at the Dental School.
Her research interests center on the design and analysis of cohort studies and the analysis of large linked administrative health datasets, with particular focus on child oral health, health inequalities, and evaluation of public health programs. She co-leads the evaluation of Scotland's national Childsmile programme and leads the Evidence-based Dentistry theme in the BDS undergraduate curriculum. As a Chartered Statistician (Royal Statistical Society), she applies rigorous statistical methods to address critical questions in oral health and public health.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong focus on population-wide data linkage studies examining oral health inequalities, childhood caries patterns, and evaluation of public health interventions. Her work frequently addresses socioeconomic determinants of oral health and leverages large-scale administrative datasets to inform policy and practice in dentistry and public health.
Professor Sherriff has published extensively across dental, epidemiological, and public health journals, with over 100 publications spanning from 1996 to the present. Her work appears in high-impact journals including Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, BMC Public Health, and Archives of Disease in Childhood.
She actively supervises students and collaborates with multidisciplinary teams across the University of Glasgow. Her leadership in the Child Oral Health Data Lab supports innovative research using advanced statistical methods to address pressing questions in oral health epidemiology.
