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Staff Member Biography

Catherine Stewart

Catherine Stewartposition: Investigator Scientistprogramme: Measuring Health

Contact Details

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phone: 0141 357 7538

Address

MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
4 Lilybank Gardens
Glasgow G12 8RZ

Biography and Interests

Catherine graduated in 2005 with a BSc (Hons) in Statistics from the University of Glasgow. She joined the unit's Measuring Health, Variations in Health and the Determinants of Health programme in the same year to undertake a 4-year studentship, completing the Master of Public Health course at the University of Glasgow in 2006. Her doctoral research focused on developing multilevel event history models. Catherine is now working as an Investigator Scientist within the same programme examining the association between air pollution, deprivation and mortality in Scotland.

Publications

Gray L, Batty GD, Craig P, Stewart C, Whyte B, Findlayson B, Leyland AH. Cohort Profile: The Scottish Health Surveys Cohort:  linkage of study participants to routinely collected records for mortality, hospital discharge, cancer and offspring birth characteristics in three nationwide studies. International Journal of Epidemiology 2010; 39:345-50.

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Stewart CH. Multilevel modeling of event history data: comparing methods appropriate for large datasets [PhD].  Glasgow: Dept of Statistics, University of Glasgow and MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 2010.

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