Staff Member Biography

Maria Maynard

position: Senior Investigator Scientistprogramme: Ethnicity and Health

Contact Details

email:
phone: 0141 357 3949 (switchboard)

Address

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

Biography and Interests

Maria obtained her BSc. (Hons) in Nutrition from Kings College, University of London and is a Registered Public Health Nutritionist. She has worked at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry and the Dept. Social Medicine, University of Bristol where she completed her PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology in 2000.

Maria joined the SPHSU Ethnicity and Health programme in 2001. Her interests are health inequalities and nutrition and health throughout the lifecourse. Her current work includes developing interventions to reduce obesity and sedentary behaviour among minority ethnic children, examining ethnic differences in associations between family type, family process and psychological well-being in adolescence, and neighbourhood influences on mental health and health behaviours.

Publications

Astell-Burt T, Maynard MJ, Lenguerrand E, Harding S. Racism, ethnic density and psychological well-being through adolescence: evidence from the Determinants of Adolescent Social Well-being and Health longitudinal study. Ethnicity & Health [Special Issue: Ethnic Inequalities in Mental Health and Care] 2012;17:71-87.

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Bhui K, Lenguerrand E, Maynard MJ, Stansfeld S, Harding S. Does cultural integration explain a mental health advantage for adolescents? [Epub ahead of print]. International Journal of Epidemiology 2012.

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Maynard MJ, Rosato M, Harding S. Trends in suicide mortality among migrants in England and Wales, 1979-2003. Ethnicity & Health 2012;17:135-40.

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Harding S, Maynard MJ, Adamson A, Anderson AA, Mutrie N, Petticrew M, Baker G, Rawlins E. Final Report: Obesity in ethnic minority children and adolescents: developing acceptable parent and child-based interventions in schools and places of worship – The MRC DiEt and Active Living (DEAL) study. London: The Public Health Research Consortium, 2011.

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Astell-Burt T, Maynard MJ, Lenguerrand E, Harding S. Influence of racism and context on ethnic differences in adolescent mental health trajectories: the Determinants of Adolescent Social well-being and Health (DASH) study Conference of Epidemiological Longitudinal Studies in Europe. Paphos, Cyprus: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2010:108.

Harding S, Whitrow MJ, Lenguerrand E, Maynard MJ, Teyhan A, Cruickshank K, Der G. Emergence of ethnic differences in blood pressure in adolescence: The Determinants of Adolescent Social Well-being and Health study. Hypertension 2010; 55:1063-9.

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Maynard MJ, Harding S. Perceived parenting and psychological wellbeing in UK ethnic minority adolescents. Child: Care, Health and Development 2010; 36:630-8.

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Whitrow M, Harding S, Maynard M. The influence of parental smoking and family type on saliva cotinine in UK ethnic minority children: a cross sectional study. BMC Public Health 2010; 10:262.

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Maynard M, Baker G, Rawlins E, Harding S. Developing obesity prevention interventions among minority ethnic children in schools and places of worship: The DEAL (DiEt and Active Living) study. BMC Public Health 2009; 9:480.

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Maynard M, Blane D. Dietary assessment in early old age: experience from the Boyd Orr Cohort. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2009; 63:S58-S63.

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Maynard M, Harding S. Ethnic differences in psychological well-being in adolescence in the context of time spent in family activities. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2010; 45:115-23.

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Harding S, Maynard MJ, Cruickshank K, Teyhan A. Overweight, obesity and high blood pressure in an ethnically diverse sample of adolescents in Britain: the Medical Research Council DASH study. International Journal of Obesity 2008; 32:82-90.
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Harding S, Teyhan A, Maynard M, Cruickshank JK. Ethnic differences in overweight and obesity in early adolescence in the MRC DASH study: the role of adolescent and parental lifestyle. International journal of Epidemiology 2008; 37:162-72.
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Frobisher C, Tilling K, Emmett PM, Maynard M, Ness AR, Davey Smith G, Frankel SJ, Gunnell DJ. Reproducibility measures and their effect on diet-cancer associations in the Boyd Orr cohort. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2007; 61:434-440.

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Harding S, Whitrow M, Maynard MJ, Teyhan A. Cohort profile: The DASH (Determinants of Adolescent Social well-being and Health) Study, an ethnically diverse cohort. International Journal of Epidemiology 2007; 36:512-517.
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Maynard M, Harding S, Minnis H. Psychological well-being in Black Caribbean, Black African, and White adolescents in the UK Medical Research Council DASH study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2007; 42:759-69.
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Harding S, Maynard M, Cruickshank K, Gray L. Anthropometry and blood pressure differences in Black Caribbean, African, South Asian and White adolescents: The MRC DASH study. Journal of Hypertension 2006; 24:1507-1514.
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Maynard M, Gunnell D, Ness A, Abraham L, Bates C, Blane D. What influences diet in early old age? Prospective and cross-sectional analyses of the Boyd Orr cohort. European Journal of Public Health 2006; 16:315-323.
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Maynard M, Ness A, Abraham L, Blane D, Bates C, Gunnell D. Selecting a healthy diet score: lessons from a study of diet and health in early old age (the Boyd Orr cohort). Public Health Nutrition 2005; 8:321-326.
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Ness A, Maynard M, Frankel S, Davey Smith G, Frobisher C, Leary S, Emmett P, Gunnell D. Diet in childhood and adult cardiovascular and all-cause mortality: the Boyd Orr cohort. Heart 2005; 91:894-898.
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Gunnell D, Berney L, Holland P, Maynard M, Blane D, Davey Smith G, Frankel S. Does the misreporting of adult body size depend upon an individual's height and weight? Methodological debate. International Journal of Epidemiology 2004; 33:1398-1399.
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Gunnell D, Oliver SE, Peters TJ, Donovan JL, Persad R, Maynard M, Gillatt D, Pearce A, Hamdy FC, Neal DE, Holly JMP. Are diet-prostate cancer associations mediated by the IGF axis? A cross-sectional analysis of diet, IGF-I and IGFBP-3 in healthy middle-aged men. British Journal of Cancer 2003; 88:1682-86.
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Blane D, Abraham L, Gunnell D, Maynard M, Ness A. Background influences in dietary choice in early old age. Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health 2003; 123:204-209.

Maynard M, Gunnell DJ, Emmett P, Frankel S, Davey-Smith G. Fruit, vegetables and antioxidants in childhood and risk of adult cancer: the Boyd Orr cohort. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2003; 58:218-225.
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Maynard M. Healthy diet at post-retirement ages: a life course perspective. Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health 2002; 122:142-143.
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Gunnell DJ, Berney L, Holland P, Maynard M, Blane D, Frankel S, Davey Smith G. How accurately are height, weight and leg length reported by the elderly and how closely are they related to measurements recorded in childhood. International Journal of Epidemiology 2000; 29:456-464.
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Kemp M, Gunnell D, Maynard M, Davey Smith G, Frankel S. How accurate is self-reported birth weight amongst the elderly? Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2000; 54:639-640.
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Frankel S, Gunnell DJ, Peters T, Maynard M, Davey Smith G. Childhood energy intake and adult mortality from cancer: the Boyd Orr cohort. British Medical Journal 1998; 316:499-504.
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