Academic background

Please see 'Qualifications' section, below

Area of expertise

• Evidence synthesis, including undertaking systematic, mapping and landscape reviews focusing on identification of risk factors for and interventions to reduce the occurrence and to alleviate the impacts of health conditions
• Epidemiological knowledge, following completion of an ecological study identifying determinants of cold-weather-related mortality, for my PhD
• Preparing reports for NICE, identifying new and repurposed drugs which are in clinical research for treating various medical conditions
• Teaching and project supervision, on MSc Public Health Research and MRES epidemiology programmes

Qualifications

• PhD (2016), thesis title: ‘What determines spatiotemporal variations in cold-weather-related mortality in England?’, Newcastle University.
• MSc (2012) Social Science and Health Research (with distinction), Newcastle University.
• PG Cert. (2011) Public Health and Health Services Research (with Merit), Newcastle University.
• BSc (2009) Biology (2.1), Durham University
• BSc (2006) Applied Psychology (2.1), Durham University
• Module credits from PGCE teaching programmes

Supervision

MSc in Public Health and Health Services Research

MRES Epidemiology

• Dissertation Supervisor
• MSc in Public Health and Health Services Research - Introduction to systematic reviewing and critical appraisal
• MRES Epidemiology - Seminar co-presenter
  

• Tanner LM, Moffatt S, Milne E, Mills SDH, White M. Socio-economic and behavioural risk factors for adverse winter health and social outcomes in economically developed countries: a systematic review of quantitative observational studies. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2013, 67(12), 1061-1067.
• Mills SD, Tanner LM, Adams J. Systematic literature review of the effects of food and drink advertising on food and drink-related behaviour, attitudes and beliefs in adult populations. Obesity Reviews 2013, 14(4), 303-314.
• Moynihan P, Tanner LM, Holmes RD, Hillier-Brown F, Mashayekhi A, Kelly SAM, Craig D. Systematic Review of Evidence Pertaining to Factors That Modify Risk of Early Childhood Caries. JDR Clinical & Translational Research 2019, 4(3), 202-216.
• Burford B, Rothwell C, Beyer F, Tanner L, Vance G. Best Practice in the Assessment of Competence: A Literature Review. London: General Medical Council, 2018.
• Bray N, Kolehmainen N, McAnuff J, Tanner L, Tuersley L, Beyer F, Grayston A, Wilson D, Tudor Edwards R, Noyes J, Craig D. Powered mobility interventions for very young children with mobility limitations to aid participation and positive development: the EMPoWER evidence synthesis. Health Technology Assessment 2020. In Press.
• Bray N, Kolehmainen N, McAnuff J, Tanner L, Tuersley L, Beyer F, Grayston A, Wilson D, Edwards RT, Noyes J, Craig D. Powered mobility interventions for very young children with mobility limitations to aid participation and positive development: the EMPoWER evidence synthesis. Health Technology Assessment 2020, 24(50), 1-194.
• Tanner L, Thomson K, Drake MJ, Ervin CF, Bower WF, Pearson F. Behavioural interventions for nocturia in adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020, 2020(9), CD013746.