Staff Member Biography

Karen Lamb

position: Investigator Scientistprogrammes: Neighbourhoods and Health, Social and Spatial Patterning of Health

Contact Details

email:
phone: 0141 357 3949 (switchboard)

Address

4 Lilybank Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8RZ

Biography and Interests

Karen graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Statistics from the University of Glasgow in 2006 before commencing a Ph.D. at the University of Strathclyde in the Department of Statistics and Modelling Science under the supervision of Professor Chris Robertson and Dr David Greenhalgh. This project involved the use of both mathematical and statistical modelling techniques to assess the effectiveness of the pneumococcal vaccination and the factors affecting the uptake of this vaccine in Scotland.

Karen is a founding committee member of the Royal Statistical Society’s Young Statisticians’ Section and is responsible for coordinating various events targeting career young statisticians throughout the UK. Karen was one of the key organisers of the 2009 Young Statisticians’ Meeting, a conference for career young statisticians, at the University of Strathclyde.

Karen joined the SPHSU in October 2009 to work on a National Prevention Research Initiative grant on the availability of and access to physical activity opportunities and links with health behaviours and obesity.

Publications

Greenhalgh D, Lamb K, Robertson C. A mathematical model for the spread of Streptococcus pneumoniae with transmission due to sequence type. Continuous Dynamical Systems, Supplement 2010: Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications. (in press).

Lamb K, Greenhalgh D, Robertson C. A simple mathematical model for genetic effects in pneumococcal carriage and transmission. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (in press).

Lamb K, Ogilvie D, Ferguson N, Murray J, Yang Wang , Ellaway A. Sociospatial distribution of access to facilities for moderate and vigorous intensity physical activity in Scotland by different modes of transport. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (in press).

Greenhalgh D, Lamb K, Robertson C. A mathematical model for the spread of Streptococcus pneumoniae with transmission due to serotype [Epub ahead of print]. Journal of Biological Dynamics 2012.

Inverarity D, Lamb K, Diggle M, Robertson C, Greenhalgh D, Mitchell T, Smith A, Jefferies J, Clarke S, McMenamin J, Edwards G. Death or survival from invasive Pneumococcal disease in Scotland: Associations with serogroups and multilocus sequence types. Journal of Medical Microbiology 2011; 60:793-802.

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Ogilvie D, Lamb K, Ferguson N, Ellaway A. Recreational physical activity facilities within walking and cycling distance: sociospatial patterning of access in Scotland. Health & Place 2011; 17:1015-22.

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Cooke BJ, Smith AJ, Diggle M, Lamb K, Robertson C, Inverarity D, Jeffries J, Edwards G, Mitchell T, Clarke S, McMenamin J. Antibiotic resistance in invasive streptococcus pneumoniae isolates, identified in Scotland between 1999 and 2007. Journal of Medical Microbiology 2010; 59:1212-8.

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Lamb KE, Ferguson NS, Wang Y, Ogilvie D, Ellaway A. Distribution of physical activity facilities in Scotland by small area measures of deprivation and urbanicity. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2010; 7:76.

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Dawson J, Lamb KE, Quinn TJ, Lees KR, Horvers M, Verrijth MJ, Walters MR. A recognition tool for transient ischaemic attack. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 2009; 102:43-9.
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