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Research project

The Wessex FRIEND Toolbox (Family Risk IdEntificatioN and Decision)

Project overview

https://www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/research-areas/healthy-communities/completed-the-friend-tool-to-predict-childhood-obesity-and-provide-local-measures-of-poverty/

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Dianna Smith

Professor

Research interests

  • Small-area estimation for policy analysis
Connect with Dianna

Email: [email protected]

Professor Nisreen A Alwan MBE, MBChB, MRCP, FFPH, MPH, MSc, PhD, FHEA, PGCAP

Professor of Public Health

Research interests

  • Public Health
  • Lifecourse Epidemiology
  • Long Covid
Connect with Nisreen A

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Population, Health and Wellbeing (PHeW)

We combine expertise in population, health and wellbeing with the application of technical excellence in geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis and qualitative methods.

Population Health Sciences

We research prevention of disease, reduction of health inequalities and optimisation of health and wellbeing for whole populations across the lifecourse, in the UK and internationally.

Research outputs