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Ruth Dundas is Professor of Social Epidemiology at the University of Glasgow, based at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. She serves as workstream lead for Understanding Inequalities in the Inequalities in Health Programme and co-leads the SHW Data Science Research Theme. Her academic career spans multiple decades with continuous publication output, demonstrating sustained contributions to the field of social epidemiology.
Professor Dundas holds a BSc (Hons) in Statistics from the University of Glasgow and an MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics from City University. Her educational background in quantitative methods has informed her methodological approach to studying health inequalities throughout her career.
Her primary research interests focus on inequalities in mortality and contextual and social influences on health over the lifecourse. She has developed significant expertise in evaluating the impact of social policies on maternal and child health using natural experimental evaluations. Methodologically, she specializes in improving the use of routine data to analyze health inequalities, developing methods for evaluating complex interventions and natural experiments, and applying multilevel modeling techniques.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals consistent thematic focus on health inequalities measurement, maternal and child health outcomes, and methodological innovations in natural experimental evaluation. Her work spans both UK contexts and international collaborations, particularly with Brazil and Ecuador. The publications demonstrate increasing emphasis on policy-relevant research with practical applications for addressing health disparities.
Professor Dundas leads the Maternal and Child Health Network (MatCHNet), which is developing infrastructure for policy evaluations using administrative data. She also co-leads the Inequalities and Justice work in the NIHR Global Health Research Unit, collaborating with institutions in Brazil and Ecuador to develop small area deprivation measures.
She is actively engaged in public communication of research findings, having developed innovative tools like a jigsaw puzzle to communicate key findings from the Inequalities in Mortality Report. She is an active member of the Royal Statistical Society Glasgow Local Group and the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health, contributing to the broader academic community through these professional organizations.
