Nicola Firman

Dr Nicola Firman is a Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, affiliated with the Wolfson Institute of Population Health. She is part of the Child Health team within the Clinical Effectiveness Group at the Centre for Primary Care. Her research focuses on leveraging electronic health records to analyze childhood health outcomes in ethnically diverse populations, particularly in east London. Key areas include parental concerns about childhood obesity, ethnic-specific BMI adjustments, and morbidities associated with childhood obesity. She also investigates inequalities in childhood immunization uptake, such as HPV and MMR vaccines.

• Education: BSc in Population and Geography (University of Southampton), MSc in Demography and Health (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2014).

Her work emphasizes longitudinal data analysis to address public health challenges, with a focus on demographic and health disparities. Though no specific grants or awards are listed, her research contributes to understanding population health dynamics through clinical and demographic lenses.

Labs/Teams: Active member of the Clinical Effectiveness Group and Child Health team at Queen Mary’s Wolfson Institute of Population Health.