John Mcbeth

John is a Professor of Epidemiology

Leadership roles

Deputy Director, Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis (CfE), University of Manchester. The CfE leads the development and use of digital methods in epidemiology to integrate and interrogate electronic health records and person-generated data, to track the occurrence and progression of disease and identify causal mechanisms, to remotely monitor and assess patients, and deliver digitised interventions

Research Director, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester

REF Unit of Assessment 1 Lead, University of Manchester

Centre for Primary Care Versus Arthritis, Keele University

Research activities

Research topics: Occurrence and progression of disease; prediction of undiagnosed disease; treatment including digital therapeutics; interventions for global health change

Research datasets: Analysis of large complex datasets (ELSA, CPRD, UK BIOBANK); novel bespoke datasets integrating routinely collected primary and secondary care records, patient generated health data, and biological samples

Research methods: Modelling population level disease data; analysis of longitudinal data; clustering longitudinal data to identify disease states and disease clusters; modelling transitions between disease states in comorbidity and multimorbidity; causal inference for binary and ordinal outcomes

Information governance: Data extraction and integration of routinely collected primary and secondary care electronic health records; safe data use; transparent and reproducible data capture and analysis pipelines; processes to manage data access requests and data provision; statistical output checking, including for machine learning algorithms

Conditions of interest

Chronic disease including immune mediated inflammatory disease, non-inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease, co-morbidity and multimorbidity, and common symptoms including chronic pain and fatigue

Teaching

Undergraduate: Biomedical Science (Years 1-3, industrial placement supervisor), MBChB (Academic Advisor, APEP and PEP supervisor,)

Postgraduate: MSc in Clinical Rheumatology Epidemiology module lead, PhD supervisor

Epidemiology: Introduction to Epidemiology, Advanced Epidemiology, Manchester Digital Epidemiology Summer School

• Scientific Committee, European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology
• Heberden Committee, British Society for Rheumatology
• Research Strategy Committee, British Society for Rheumatology
• International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
• European Federation of IASP Chapters (EFIC)
• British Pain Society (UK chapter of IASP)
• American College of Epidemiology
• British Society for Rheumatology

Governing Board, City of Manchester Learning Partnership

M.A. Hons. Psychology (First Class), University of Dundee, 1991

PhD Clinical Epidemiology, University of Manchester, 2001