We are delighted to announce Naomi Miall as one of our Data Impact Fellows for 2023. In this post Naomi shares a bit about her background, her current work and research and what she hopes to get out of the Fellows scheme.
About me and my background
I am a research assistant in the qatar rcs data MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU) in the University of Glasgow. This is an interdisciplinary research group that brings together researchers in public health, sociology, economics, among others, to work on the social determinants of health.
Before joining the SPHSU two years ago, I studied a MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Starting the course in 2020 made it quite an unusual year to be studying epidemiology, and a substantial part of my research so far has ended up focusing on how the pandemic impacted health inequalities. For example, my MSc thesis was exploring how working from home or losing employment during the pandemic was associated with intimate partner violence in a large global survey, and at Glasgow I have researched the impact of the pandemic on child mental health inequalities, and on relationship quality and sexual behaviour.