Professor Carol DezateuxProfessor of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Data ScienceEmail: c.dezateux@qmul.ac.ukProfileResearchPublicationsSupervisionProfileI am a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Data Science at the Centre for Primary Care in the Wolfson Institute of Population Health. I also hold an honorary consultant post at Barts Health Trust. I have a clinical training in paediatrics and an academic training in epidemiology. I lead large-scale collaborative studies that identify and evaluate actionable opportunities to improve the health of children and their families. My research group is currently evaluating the health and education benefits of free school meals, strategies to improve childhood immunisation coverage, the causes and effects of household overcrowding and of childhood obesity, and the effectiveness of clinical and public health strategies to reduce health inequalities and improve the health of children and the adults they will become. I lead the REAL Child Health group funded by Barts Charity, am coinvestigator on the Barts Charity funded Precision Health programme, which is part of Barts Life Sciences, a coinvestigator on the ADR UK funded Healthy Household programme and co-lead the data science workstream of the Tower Hamlets Health Determinants Research Collaboration. As a member of the Clinical Effectiveness Group at Queen Mary, I am part of a team using data to support a learning health system for north east London and the development of the 'One London' Local Health and Care Record Exemplar and London Health Data Strategy.ResearchResearch Interests: Children’s health Health inequalities Wider determinants of health Electronic health records Quality improvement Health data science Childhood immunisations Childhood obesity Free school meals Household overcrowding PublicationsPlease click through to see a complete list of Carol's publications. Featured Publications Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on timeliness and equity of measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations in North East London: a longitudinal study using electronic health records. Firman N, Marszalek M, Gutierrez A, Homer K, Williams C, Harper G, Dostal I, Ahmed Z, Robson J, Dezateux C. BMJ Open. 2022. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066288. Evaluation of the ASSIGN open-source deterministic address-matching algorithm for allocating unique property reference numbers to general practitioner-recorded patient addresses. Harper G, Stables D, Simon P, Ahmed Z, Smith K, Robson J, Dezateux C.Int J Popul Data Sci. 2021. doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v6i1.1674. Which young women are not being vaccinated against HPV? Cross-sectional analysis of a UK national cohort study. Bedford H, Firman N, Waller J, Marlow L, Forster A, Dezateux C. Vaccine. 2021 doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.07.094. Completeness and representativeness of body mass index in children's electronic general practice records: Linked cross-sectional study in an ethnically-diverse urban population in the United Kingdom. Firman N, Robson J, Ahmed Z, Boomla K, Dezateux C. Pediatr Obes. 2021. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12772. How active are our children? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study. Griffiths LJ, Cortina-Borja M, Sera F, Pouliou T, Geraci M, Rich C, Cole TJ, Law C, Joshi H, Ness AR, Jebb SA, Dezateux C. BMJ Open. 2013. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002893. Marszalek M, Hawking MKD, Gutierrez A et al. (2025). Improving the timeliness and equity of preschool childhood vaccinations: Mixed methods evaluation of a quality improvement programme in primary care. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.126522 QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/101588 Wilk M, Firman N, Harper G et al. (publicationYear). Associations between household overcrowding and adult mental illness in an ethnically diverse urban population: cross-sectional study using linked primary care and housing records.. nameOfConference DOI: 10.23889/ijpds.v9i5.2583 QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/99894 Firman N, North L, Marszalek M et al. (publicationYear). Residential mobility and receipt of measles, mumps and rubella vaccination: analysis of linked primary care electronic health records in a disadvantaged London region. nameOfConference DOI: 10.23889/ijpds.v9i5.2640 QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/99862 Concha N, Hawking M, Dezateux C et al. (2024). OP111 Universal free school meals and school food environments: insights from ActEarly's food improvement goals in schools study in tower hamlets. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-ssmabstracts.81 QMRO: qmroHref Firman N, North L, Marszalek M et al. (2024). OP37 Residential mobility and receipt of measles, mumps and rubella vaccination: analysis of linked primary care electronic health records in a disadvantaged London region. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-ssmabstracts.28 QMRO: qmroHref Wilk M, Firman N, Harper G et al. (2024). P62 Associations between household overcrowding and adult mental illness in an ethnically diverse urban population: a cross-sectional study using linked primary care and housing records. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-ssmabstracts.157 QMRO: qmroHref Firman N, Dezateux C, Muirhead V (2024). Inequalities in children’s tooth decay requiring dental extraction under general anaesthetic: a longitudinal study using linked electronic health records. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1136/bmjph-2023-000622 QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/98342 Griffiths LJ, Rafferty J, Fry R et al. (publicationYear). Children and young people’s body mass index measures derived from routine data sources: A national data linkage study in Wales. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300221 QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/98458 Firman N, Wilk M, Marszalek M et al. (2024). Is obesity more likely among children sharing a household with an older child with obesity? Cross-sectional study of linked National Child Measurement Programme data and electronic health records. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1136/bmjpo-2024-002533 QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/96160 Harper G, Firman N, Wilk M et al. (2024). Determining households from patient addresses and unique property reference numbers in general practitioner electronic health records. nameOfConference DOI: 10.23889/ijpds.v9i1.2379 QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/96305 View Profile Publication Page SupervisionNicola Firman funded by Barts Charity: Obesity and health outcomes in an ethnically diverse child population: methodological approaches using electronic health records linked at child and household level Marta Wilk funded by Barts Charity: Household perspectives using linked electronic health records