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 D. Oceandy & A. 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 or how digital technologies incl. artificial intelligence deliver 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, Xiuyuan Shi. 
 

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.

1. 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.
2. Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing. Manchester, Newcastle, LSE. £4.9M Funded by the National Institute of Health and Care Research.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

Life-course shaping of allostatic load in America, Britain, continental Europe, Ireland, China and Indonesia, part of leadership of the WHO expert group.

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.