Emily Petherick

I am a Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences, Loughborough University and a past chair of the MCR Subcommittee. I am interested in social epidemiology, developmental origins of health and disease, the use of routine health data and linked data for research, and methodology.

I am interested in how routine sources of data can be used alongside cohort data to facilitate the development of epidemiological evidence and also the improvement of statistical methods to undertake such analyses. Specific areas of research interest include childhood growth and obesity, social, economic and ethnic differences in health, and data linkage between research data and routine health and administrative data for research. My methodological interests include longitudinal data analysis, specifically cohort data and routine medical data such as primary care data.