Alastair Leyland
EUPHA Liaison Officer
Ensures EUPHA and SSM work effectively together and facilitate joint membership and events. I am a Professor of Population Health Statistics and Associate Director of the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow. I am currently the head of the research programme Measuring and Analysing Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health within the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, having led the programme Measuring Health, Variations in Health and the Determinants of Health from 1999-2015. My recent research has focussed on inequalities in mortality in Scotland and the evaluation of natural experiments, particularly involving the use of routinely collected data. Other longstanding research interests include the application of multilevel modelling to health data, particularly concerning its use as a tool for exploring inequalities, and expanding the uses of routinely collected and linked hospital discharge, mortality, and register data.