
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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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
Interventions at caesarean section for reducing the risk of aspiration pneumonitis
International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 142-148Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijoa.2010.12.006
Effect of late preterm birth on longitudinal lung spirometry in school age children and adolescents
Thorax, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 54-61Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200329
Psychosocial impact of the summer 2007 floods in England
BMC Public Health, vol. 11, pp. 145-152Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-145
Innovation and change in public health
Public Health and Community Nursing: Frameworks for practice 3rd Edition. Watkins, D., Cousins, J. (eds.). Elsevier Bailliere Tindall, pp. 27-46, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] http://orca.cf.ac.uk/93108/
Protocol of the baseline assessment for the Environments for Healthy Living (EHL) Wales cohort study
BMC Public Health, vol. 10, pp. 150-157Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-150
BCG vaccination reduces risk of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis as detected by gamma interferon release assay
Vaccine, vol. 27, no. 44, pp. 6116-6120Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.08.031
Package of care for active management in labour for reducing caesarean section rates in low-risk women (Review)
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, vol. 2009, no. 3Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004907.pub2