Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Further information
Lead, World Health Organization expert group - Life course and healthy ageing
Winner of the Making A Difference Award 2024 for Outstanding Benefit to Society through Research (with Delvac Oceandy & Asri Maharani)
Supervision areas
I supervise research students and postdocs studying healthy ageing in particular cognitive ageing using longitudinal ageing studies from around the world including the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, the US Health and Retirement Study, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, the Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing, the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study and the Indonesia Family Life Survey.
I also supervise research students studying healthy digital dividends particularly how different digital technologies deliver varying benefits to different groups in society and through what mechanisms.
Former PhD students: D. Griffiths, Y. Nugroho, J. Almodovar, N. Acik-Toprak, P. Widdop, Sujarwoto, A. Ruzzi, A. Pierewan, D. Femina, A. Maharani, W. Hanandita, R. Eendebak, S. Zahiruddin, G. Li.
Current PhD students: Azim Harun, Weiyi Zhang.
Biography
Ir, MM, MSc, PhD
Reader in Global Health at the Global Development Institute.
Previously on research leave in spring 2009 and 2012 at the Harvard School of Public Health and UNU-WIDER in autumn 2022.
Research interests
- Scale-up of a primary care intervention for cardiovascular risk management in Indonesia. The George Institute, Sydney, Brawijaya, BPJS Kesehatan, Manchester. $756K Funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) & the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases.
- Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing. Manchester, Newcastle, LSE. £4.9M Funded by the National Institute of Health and Care Research.
- The combined impact of dementia, age-related hearing and vision impairment: SENSE-Cog: Promoting health for eyes, ears and mind, led by the University of Manchester. €5.9M Funded by European Horizon2020.
- Neighbourhood and dementia. Keady: PI; Burns, Challis, Davies, Leroi, Nazroo, Pendleton, Reeves, Reilly, Swarbrick, Tampubolon, Taylor, Young: Co-PIs. £4.8M. Funded by the National Institute of Health Research.
- Inequalities in later life, frailty and wellbeing: an interdisciplinary approach to causality. (James Nazroo: PI; Burns, Chandola, Goodacre, Horan, Pendleton, Tampubolon, Wu: Co-PIs. £2.4M. Funded by the Medical Research Council.
Genome-wide association studies and epigenetic studies of depression, cognition, probable sarcopenia and frailty in older Americans and Britons.
Life-course and exposome shaping of Alzheimer's Disease-related Dementias in America, Britain, Europe and China.
Opportunities
On understanding the challenge of population ageing using large scale data around the world, including the challenge's scale, shape and timing. Also on healthy digital dividends particularly how different digital technologies deliver varying benefits to different groups in society and through what mechanisms. There is no scholarship on offer at the moment.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Global Development Institute
- Healthier Futures
- Global inequalities
- Dementia@Manchester
- Digital Futures
- Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Differences in the risk of frailty based on care receipt, unmet care needs and socio-economic inequalities: a longitudinal analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Sinclair, D., Maharani, A., Clegg, A., Hanratty, B., Tampubolon, G., Todd, C., Wittenberg, R., O'Neill, T. & Matthews, F. E., 1 Apr 2025, In: The Journal of Frailty & Aging. 14, 2, 100012.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Growing up in poverty, growing old in frailty: The life course shaping of health in the United States, England and Europe – a prospective and retrospective study
Tampubolon, G., 23 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Scientific Reports.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fit for growing old? Financial protection before and after Indonesia’s national health insurance scheme – a repeated cross-section study
Tampubolon, G., 7 Mar 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, (medRxiv).Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Preprint
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Growing up in poverty, growing old in frailty: The life course shaping of health in America, Britain, and Europe: a prospective and retrospective study
Tampubolon, G., 8 Mar 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, (medRxiv).Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Preprint
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Implementation of mobile-health technology is associated with five-year survival among individuals in rural areas of Indonesia
Maharani, A., Sujarwoto, S., Praveen, D., Oceandy, D., Tampubolon, G. & Patel, A., 2 Apr 2024, In: PL o S Digital Health. 3, 4, 11 p., e0000476.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
Projects
- 5 Finished
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Lifelong Health
Price, D. (PI), Haarmans, M. (PI), Chandola, T. (PI), Higgins, V. (PI), Smith, N. (PI), Hannemann, T. (PI), Doran, P. (PI), Prattley, J. (PI), Taylor, H. (PI), Williams, B. (PI), Webber, R. (PI), Phillipson, C. (PI), Nazroo, J. (PI), Yarker, S. (PI), Shryane, N. (PI), Buffel, T. (PI), Cotterell, N. (PI), James, H. (PI), Pendleton, N. (PI), Mekli, K. (PI), Chatzi, G. (PI), Rémillard-Boilard, S. (PI), Pashazadeh, F. (PI), Li, Y. (PI), Matthews, K. (PI), Tampubolon, G. (PI), Kapadia, D. (PI), Gosling, Z. (Support team) & Zhang, N. (PI)
1/08/19 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
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Developing Scalable Digital Interventions for Improving Access to Depression Interventions throughout Indonesia.
Renwick, L. (PI), Bee, P. (CoI), Lindley, S. (CoI), Lovell, K. (CoI), Tampubolon, G. (CoI), UnKnown, R. (CoI) & Van Tongeren, M. (CoI)
1/03/19 → 30/09/19
Project: Research
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Ears, Eyes and Mind: The 'SENSE-Cog Project' to Improe Mental Wellbeing for Elderly Europeans with Sensory Impairment.
Leroi, I. (PI), Arden Armitage, C. (CoI), Aslam, T. (CoI), Becares, L. (CoI), Dawes, P. (CoI), Gannon, B. (CoI), Garsden, J. (CoI), Hann, M. (CoI), Lovell, K. (CoI), Meyer, K. (CoI), Nazroo, J. (CoI), Pendleton, N. (CoI), Reeves, D. (CoI), Swarbrick, C. (CoI), Symonds, C. (CoI) & Tampubolon, G. (CoI)
1/01/16 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
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Neighbourhoods and Dementia: A Mixed Methods Study.
Keady, J. (PI), Burns, A. (CoI), Challis, D. (CoI), Davies, L. (CoI), Leroi, I. (CoI), Nazroo, J. (CoI), Pendleton, N. (CoI), Reeves, D. (CoI), Swarbrick, C. (CoI), Tampubolon, G. (CoI), Taylor, C. (CoI) & Young, A. (CoI)
1/01/14 → 31/10/19
Project: Research
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Inequalities in later life frailty and wellbeing: an interdisciplinary approach to causality: Full bid
Nazroo, J. (PI), Burns, A. (CoI), Chandola, T. (CoI), Goodacre, R. (CoI), Horan, M. (CoI), Pendleton, N. (CoI), Tampubolon, G. (CoI) & Wu, F. (CoI)
1/11/11 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
Impacts
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Preventing cardiovascular disease in rural Indonesia by using a smartphone app in a socio-medical intervention
Tampubolon, G. (Participant) & Oceandy, D. (Participant)
Impact
Datasets
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Determinants of cancer screening awareness and participation among Indonesian women
Anwar, S. (Contributor), Tampubolon, G. (Contributor), Mieke, V. H. (Contributor), Hutajulu, S. (Contributor), Watkins, J. (Contributor) & Wulaningsih, W. (Contributor), figshare , 6 Mar 2018
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4023052.v1, https://figshare.com/collections/Determinants_of_cancer_screening_awareness_and_participation_among_Indonesian_women/4023052/1
Dataset
Press/Media
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How social media can breed envy in countries with high inequality – lessons from Indonesia detailed in study
22/06/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Social media linked to poor mental health in Indonesia, research finds
16/06/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Want to keep your brain sharp? Take care of your eyes and ears
22/10/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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Cataract surgery and hearing aids use associated with slower cognitive decline
11/10/18
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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Researchers work to tackle cardiovascular deaths in rural Indonesia
30/04/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research