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Dr Mirjam Allik is a Research Fellow at the MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow. She has been affiliated with the University since December 2013, leading the Children’s Health in Care in Scotland (CHiCS) research project. Her primary role focuses on measuring deprivation and health inequalities, particularly through linked administrative data.
Dr Allik holds a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin. Her research expertise includes quantitative methodologies applied to public health, small-area deprivation analysis, and understanding the health impacts of care experiences on children. She has contributed to significant studies such as developing the Carstairs deprivation scores for Scotland and creating small-area deprivation indices for Brazil.
Her work emphasizes population-wide longitudinal studies, with recent focus on Scotland’s care-experienced children. Key topics include chronic conditions, mental health hospitalizations, and mortality outcomes. Dr Allik has also explored global health issues like the Bolsa Família Programme in Brazil and gender representation in Estonian politics.
Dr Allik has received the 2014 Images with Impact Contest Award from MVLS at the University of Glasgow. She actively engages in supervising PhD students (e.g., Daniel Bradford and Edit Gedeon) and MPH students, focusing on topics like child health and deprivation measurement. Teaching roles include leading computer labs for postgraduate quantitative data analysis courses.
Her research datasets include Carstairs deprivation scores for Scotland, small-area measures for Brazil, and Estonian national candidate data. Funding sources include the National Institute for Health Research and the Economic and Social Research Council.
