Dr George Ploubidis MSc PhD
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George received his PHD with distinction from the University of Athens in 2004. He was a postdoctoral research associate at the department of psychiatry of the University of Cambridge until 2007, when he joined the Department of Population Studies. In April 2009 George received a Medical Research Council fellowship in Population Health Science.
Affiliation
Teaching
George is co-organiser (with Emily Webb and Phil Edwards) of the Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health (STEPH) module.
Term 1 Teaching: STEPH
Term 2 Teaching: Research Design and Analysis, Social Epidemiology
Short course in Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modelling:
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/prospectus/short/sfasem.htm
Research
George's work is focused on the understanding the underlying mechanism through which social and structural determinants influence population health and the development of robust methods to establish causal associations form observational data.
A secondary focus involves the use of latent variable models in the development of reliable population health metrics and typologies as well as the evaluation of existing measurement tools for population based surveys.
Research areas
- Ageing
- Health inequalities
- Health status measurement
- International comparisons
- Social and structural determinants of health
Disciplines
- Life-course epidemiology
- Psychology
- Social Sciences
- Statistics
Disease and Health Conditions
- Cardiovascular disease
- Diabetes
- Disability
- Mental health
- Tuberculosis
Regions
- Euro area
- Europe & Central Asia (all income levels)
- Europe & Central Asia (developing only)
- European Union
- North America
- OECD members
Countries
- Brazil
- Greece
- Kenya
- Nepal
- United Kingdom
- United States
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Selected publications
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Later life health in Europe: How important are country level influences?
Ploubidis, GB; Dale, C; Grundy, E;
European Journal of Ageing, In Press;
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Social determinants of tuberculosis in Europe: A prospective ecological study.
Ploubidis, G.B. ; Palmer, M.J. ; Blackmore, C. ; Lim, T.A. ; Manissero, D. ; Sandgren, A. ; Semenza, J.C. ;
Eur Respir J, 2012;
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Health Measurement in Population Surveys: Combining Information from Self-reported and Observer-Measured Health Indicators.
Ploubidis, G.B. ; Grundy, E. ;
Demography, 2011;
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Climate change and climate variability: personal motivation for adaptation and mitigation
Semenza, J.C.; Ploubidis, G.B.; George, L.A.
Environmental Health, 2011; 10
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Health differentials in the older population of England: An empirical comparison of the materialist, lifestyle and psychosocial hypotheses.
Ploubidis, G.B. ; De Stavola, B.L. ; Grundy, E. ;
BMC Public Health, 2011; 11:390
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Later-Life Mental Health in Europe: A Country-Level Comparison.
Ploubidis, G.B.; Grundy, E.;
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 2009; 64(5):666-76
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Testing the association between the incidence of schizophrenia and social capital in an urban area.
Kirkbride, J.B.; Boydell, J.; Ploubidis, G.B.; Morgan, C.; Dazzan, P.; McKenzie, K.; Murray, R.M.; Jones, P.B.;
Psychol Med, 2008; 38(8):1083-94
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