Professor Shantini Paranjothy

Professor Shantini Paranjothy
MBBCh, MSc Medical Statistics, PhD, FFPH
Clinical Chair in Public Health
- About
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Biography
Professor Shantini Paranjothy graduated from the University of Wales College of Medicine in 1995 and worked as a junior doctor in accident and emergency, obstetrics, gynaecology and sexual health in London and Chelmsford. She completed a MSc in Medical Statistics in 2000 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and completed a PhD in Epidemiology whilst working as a Clinical Research Fellow at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology in 2004. Shantini joined the Welsh Public Health Specialty Training Programme in 2004 and was appointed as a Walport Lecturer at Cardiff University in 2007. She completed specialist training in Public Health Medicine in 2008 and was appointed as a Clinical Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University and Honorary Consultant in Public Health at Public Health Wales NHS Trust in 2009. In 2016, Shantini was appointed as the Mansel Talbot Professor of Preventive Medicine at Cardiff University’s School of Medicine and moved to the University of Aberdeen in 2020 as a Clinical Professor of Public Health and Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine at NHS Grampian.
Professor Shantini Paranjothy is based in the Aberdeen Health Data Science Research Centre and leads the Centre’s research programme on understanding health and disease across the life course. Shantini has a special interest are in women and children’s health, and is experienced in conducting epidemiological studies using record-linked routinely available health and social data to study the social and environmental influences on inequalities in perinatal, child health and wellbeing. She is also an editor of the Cochrane Collaboration Fertility and Gynaecology group.
Qualifications
- MBBCh Medicine1995 - University of Wales College of Medicine
- MSc Medical Statistics2000 - University of London London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- PhD Epidemiology2004 - University of London London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- FFPH Public Health2008 - Faculty of Public Health
- Publications
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Perinatal outcomes and travel time to maternity services: analysis of birth outcome data in Wales from 1995 to 2009
Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition, vol. 98, no. Suppl 1Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2013-303966.323
Specialist clinics for reducing emergency admissions in patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Heart, vol. 99, no. 4, pp. 233-239Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302313
Development and use of a privacy-protecting total population record linkage system to support observational, interventional, and policy relevant research
The Lancet, vol. 380, no. Suppl. 3, pp. S6Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60362-1
The role of maternal nutrition in the aetiology of gastroschisis: an incident case-control study
International Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 1141-1152Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dys092
Interventions to reduce unplanned hospital admission: a series of systematic reviews
National Institute for Health ResearchBooks and Reports: Commissioned Reports- [ONLINE] http://orca.cf.ac.uk/93110/
Cervical cancer incidence in young women: a historical and geographic controlled UK regional population study
British Journal of Cancer, vol. 106, no. 11, pp. 1753-1759Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2012.148
Birth outcomes following treatment for precancerous changes to the cervix: a population-based record linkage study
BJOG-An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, vol. 119, no. 2, pp. 236-244Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03052.x
Interventions for preventing nausea and vomiting in women undergoing regional anaesthesia for caesarean section
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, vol. 9Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD007579.pub2
The transmission of tuberculosis in schools involving children 3 to 11 years of age
The Pediatric infectious disease journal, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 82-84Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/INF.0b013e31823378c9
Impact of media reporting of cervical cancer in a UK celebrity on a population-based cervical screening programme
Journal of Medical Screening, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 204-209Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1258/jms.2011.011092