Joel Hotchkiss

Joel graduated in 1994 with a BVSc in Veterinary Science and an intercalated BSc (Hons) in Pharmacology from University of Liverpool. He initially worked as an equine vet, in private practice, before moving to the equine hospital of the University of Glasgow in 1999. After attaining a Certificate in Equine Internal Medicine he commenced a PhD in veterinary epidemiology in 2001. His doctoral thesis focused on the epidemiology of an equine respiratory disease. This involved adapting many ideas from the human public health field and utilised multivariable, multilevel modelling. Joel then returned to private practice before becoming a Lecturer in Equine Practice at the University of Edinburgh in 2006.

Joel joined the unit’s Measuring Health, Variations in Health and the Determinants of Health programme in 2008 as a Career Development Fellow. His current research aims to examine the association between measures of obesity and mortality in the Scottish population using the Scottish Health Surveys Linked Dataset.