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Dr. Denise Brown is a Research Fellow at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, affiliated with the School of Health and Wellbeing and the Department of Statistics. She holds a BSc and PhD in Statistics from the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on health inequalities, mortality analysis, and deprivation measures, with a particular emphasis on care-experienced children and population health data linkage.
- Key Roles: Statistician/Epidemiologist in the Inequalities in Health programme
- Education: BSc (Hons) and PhD in Statistics from the University of Glasgow
Her work examines all-cause and cause-specific mortality trends, socioeconomic determinants of health, and the impact of deprivation measures like Carstairs scores. She leads large-scale studies like the Children’s Health in Care in Scotland (CHiCS) cohort, analyzing health outcomes of care-experienced children. Recent research includes drug deaths and household income linkages, pandemic impacts on cancer diagnostics, and policy-relevant data sharing frameworks.
Key grants include support from the Health Foundation, NIHR, and ESRC for projects on drug mortality, looked-after children’s health, and socioeconomic drivers of health disparities. Her contributions include developing deprivation datasets and advancing methodologies for analyzing population mobility and health correlations.
