Staff Profile
Dr Fiona Pearson
Senior Research Associate
- Address: Newcastle University,
Baddiley-Clark Building,
Richardson Road,
Newcastle upon Tyne.
NE2 4AX
Background
Qualifications
PhD in Epidemiology (MRC studentship), 2013
MRes in Medical and Molecular Biosciences (Epidemiology), 2008
BSc (hons) Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 2007
Research
Interests
Evidence synthesis
Epidemiology of chronic diseases
Use of routine health data and large national and secondary datasets as tools to investigate the causes and consequences of major contemporary public health problems
Publications
- Critchley J, Young F, Orton L, Garner P. Corticosteroids for prevention of mortality in people with tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2013, 13(3), 223-237.
- Young F, Wotton CJ, Critchley JA, Unwin NC, Goldacre MJ. Increased risk of tuberculosis disease in people with diabetes mellitus: record-linkage study in a UK population. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2010, 66(6), 519-523.
- Young F, Capewell S, Ford ES, Critchley JA. Coronary Mortality Declines in the US Between 1980 and 2000 Quantifying the Contributions from Primary and Secondary Prevention. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2010, 39(3), 228-234.
- Young F, Critchley JA, Johnstone LK, Unwin NC. A review of co-morbidity between infectious and chronic disease in Sub Saharan Africa: TB and Diabetes Mellitus, HIV and Metabolic Syndrome, and the impact of globalization. Globilization and Health 2009, 5(9).
- Young F, Critchley J, Unwin N. Diabetes & tuberculosis: A dangerous liaison & no white tiger. Indian Journal of Medical Research 2009, 130(1), 1-4.
- Young F, Critchley JA, O'Flaherty M, Capewell S. Individual versus Population Approaches to Cardiovascular Prevention: Modeling the Decline in Coronary Heart Disease Deaths in the USA, 1980-2000. In: Circulation: Joint Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism Conference/49th Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention. 2009, Palm Harbor, Florida, USA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Young F, Critchley JA, Ford E, O'Flaherty M, Capewell S. High-risk versus rose population approaches to prevention: Modelling the decline in coronary heart disease deaths in the United States 1980-2000. In: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health: Society for Social Medicine 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting. 2008, Southampton, UK: BMJ Publishing Group.