Staff Member Biography
Denise Brown
position: Investigator Scientistprogramme: Measuring HealthContact Details
phone: 0141 357 7516
Address
4 Lilybank Gardens,
Glasgow G12 8RZ.
Biography and Interests
Denise obtained her BSc (Hons) in Statistics from the University of Glasgow in 2001 and began her PhD there in the same year. Her PhD research involved extending the Cox proportional hazards model to allow for dynamic covariate effects in survival data with application to the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study (WOSCOPS) and to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) Study.
In 2005, Denise joined the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit as a career development fellow in the Measuring health, variations in health and the determinants of health programme. Her research investigated the impact of internal migration on population health.
In March 2008 Denise took up a post as a research assistant in the Department of Statistics at the University of Glasgow before returning to the Unit in October 2009 to work on a CSO-funded project on population mobility and health inequalities.
Publications
Brown D, Benzeval M, Gayle V, Macintyre S, O'Reilly D, Leyland AH. Childhood residential mobility and health in late adolescence and adulthood: findings from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study [Epub ahead of print]. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2012.
pubmedBrown D, O'Reilly D, Gayle V, Macintyre S, Benzeval M, Leyland AH. Socio-demographic and health characteristics of individuals left behind in deprived and declining areas in Scotland. Health & Place 2012;18:440-444.
pubmedLeyland A, Brown D, O'Reilly D, Gayle V, Macintyre S, Benzeval M. Population mobility and its role in widening health inequalities in scotland [executive summary]. Edinburgh: Scottish Government Health Directorates Chief Scientist Office [CZH/4/546], 2012.
open accessBrown D, Leyland AH. Scottish mortality rates 2000-2002 by deprivation and small area population mobility. Social Science & Medicine 2010; 71:1951-7.
pubmed open accessBrown D, Leyland AH. Population mobility, deprivation and self-reported limiting long-term illness in small areas across Scotland. Health & Place 2009; 15:37-44.
Brown D, Kauermann G, Ford I. A partial likelihood approach to smooth estimation of dynamic covariate effects using penalised splines. Biometrical Journal 2007; 49:441-52.
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