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Nynke Halbesma serves as Programme Co-Director for the Online Master of Public Health (MPH) and Co-Director of Students at the Usher Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh's College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. She holds a British Heart Foundation Fellowship and leads major research initiatives in renal and cardiovascular epidemiology.
Education:
- PhD in Risk factors for accelerated renal function loss (University of Groningen)
- MSc in Clinical Epidemiology (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- MSc in Biology (University of Groningen)
Her research spans renal epidemiology, cardiovascular risk prediction, and public health crises, with emphasis on chronic kidney disease, out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, and health disparities. Recent work leverages UK Biobank data and Scottish national registries to examine depression, socioeconomic factors, and sex differences in cardiac outcomes. She specializes in cohort studies and data-linkage methodologies for population health analysis.
Her publications reveal a concentrated focus on cardiac arrest survival determinants (2023-2025), integrating depression, socioeconomic status, and sex differences within Scottish national cohorts. This work bridges epidemiology, emergency medicine, and health equity research.
Scientific Awards:
- British Heart Foundation Fellowship (2016)
Halbesma directs four major research projects, including a British-Dutch collaboration on cardiovascular risk prediction in chronic kidney disease and Scottish cardiac arrest data-linkage initiatives. She supervises PhD students in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest research and contributes to APHEA-accredited MPH program development. Her work involves close collaboration with the Scottish Government and NHS Scotland.
Based at the Edinburgh BioQuarter, she operates within the Usher Institute's research ecosystem focused on population health sciences, with active involvement in national data infrastructure projects for cardiac and renal health monitoring.
