Nida Ziauddeen

Dr. Nida Ziauddeen is a Postdoc Career Track Lecturer in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on public health, epidemiology, and maternal/child health, particularly addressing food insecurity, childhood obesity, and long-term health consequences of early life exposures. She has led or contributed to projects like the Wessex DIET study and investigations into long-COVID impacts on work.

Her teaching roles include Deputy Module Lead for the MSc Public Health program’s Epidemiology module. Dr. Ziauddeen holds a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) since 2021, reflecting her commitment to academic excellence.

Her recent work combines quantitative and qualitative methods, exploring topics such as paternal smoking’s impact on childhood obesity, food aid interventions’ efficacy, and comorbidities of obesity and hypertension. She currently supervises four PhD students in areas like primary care, human development, and public health.

Key collaborations include the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration Wessex. Her research outputs span peer-reviewed articles, conference presentations, and systematic reviews, emphasizing policy-relevant findings in health equity and pandemic response.