Dr. Alastair Leyland

Biography

Alastair Leyland is a Professor and Associate Director of the MRC/CSO Social Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics and an M.Sc. in Applied Statistics from the University of Southampton, as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Sunderland. Leyland has played a significant role in the field of public health statistics, particularly in relation to health inequalities in Scotland. He co-leads the Inequalities in Health research programme at his unit, having been involved since its inception in 1999. His recent research focuses on mortality inequalities and the evaluation of natural experiments using health data. Leyland has contributed to various funding boards, including those for NIHR and the Health Research Board (Ireland). He is a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and the Royal Statistical Society and has served on editorial boards for journals such as the European Journal of Public Health. He is active in international collaboration and training, particularly in multilevel modeling in public health research. Leyland's work involves assessing the impact of social policies on health and he has published widely in various aspects of public health and statistics.

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