Dr Melanie Morris BA(Hons) MSc PhD

Research Fellow in Epidemiology

Melanie graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Psychology in 1990 and then taught in schools for several years before embarking on an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School in 2003. She followed this with a PhD at the School looking at socio-economic differences in women’s use of primary care for fertility problems. Since finishing her PhD in 2010, she has been working at UCL, in the Health Behaviour Research Centre, on a NAEDI-funded project developing materials to raise awareness of gynaecological cancers and encourage early presentation to primary care. She returned to LSHTM in May 2012.

Affiliation

Teaching

Since starting her PhD, Melanie has taught on the Distance Learning MSc Epidemiology, on the Fundamentals of Epidemiology module, spending four years as Module Organiser for the module Writing and Reviewing Scientific Papers. She still teaches on these modules, running live web-based seminars and marking assignments. She has also taught in-house at LSHTM on Basic and Extended Epidemiology courses. At UCL, she lectured and ran seminars on Critical Appraisal for MSc Health Psychology, and marked Critical Review papers.

 

Research

Melanie has recently started working as a Research Fellow in the Cancer Survival Group on a NAEDI-funded project: “Screening, timely diagnosis and inequalities in breast cancer survival”.

Research areas

  • Health inequalities
  • Health services research
  • Inequalities
  • Primary care
  • Public health

Disciplines

  • Epidemiology

Disease and Health Conditions

  • Cancer

Regions

  • European Union

Countries

  • United Kingdom
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