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Professor Carol Dezateux

Carol

Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Data Science

Email: c.dezateux@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

I 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.

Research

Research 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

Publications

Please 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.

  • 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 London region. nameOfConference


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  • Firman N, Dezateux C, Newman C et al. (2026). Developing resources to facilitate public conversations about the use of linked address-based data for research. nameOfConference


  • Snelling AJHL, Copland E, Mei WX et al. (2025). Methods to establish a Pregnancy Register in the QResearch Database. nameOfConference


  • Wilk M, Harper G, Firman N et al. (2025). Estimating households and populations from primary care electronic health records: comparison with Office for National Statistics Census 2021 aggregated estimates. nameOfConference


  • Concha N, Bryant M, Dezateux C et al. (2025). Food Improvement Goals in Schools (FIGS I): A qualitative evaluation of a whole-school approach to healthy food provision in primary schools. nameOfConference


  • Concha-Arango N, Hawking M, Dezateux C (2025). Inequalities on a plate? Children’s voices from urban school food environments. nameOfConference

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  • Wilk M, Robson J, Smith K et al. (2025). Associations of household smoking with current childhood asthma: retrospective cohort study using linked primary care and housing records. nameOfConference


  • North L, Firman N, Lyons J et al. (2025). Characterising residential mobility during childhood: comparing north-east London and Wales using linked electronic health records. nameOfConference


  • Wilk M, Robson J, Smith K et al. (2025). OP41 Associations of household smoking with current childhood asthma: retrospective cohort study using linked primary care and housing records. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting Oral


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  • Concha N, Firman N, O’Donoghue M et al. (2025). P72 Bridging the school meal divide: exploring food insecurity and wellbeing through universal free school meals in secondary schools. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting


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Supervision

Nicola 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

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