Richard Silverwood BSc MSc PhD
- 256c
- LSHTM
- Keppel Street
- London
- WC1E 7HT
- T: +44 (0)20 7927 2421
Richard has been at the School since 2004. He currently works in both the Department of Medical Statistics and the Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology.
Affiliation
Teaching
In 2011-12 Richard is contributing to teaching on the following courses: Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health (STEPH), Statistical Methods in Epidemiology (SME), and Advanced Statistical Methods in Epidemiology (ASME).
Research
Richard is currently working on a Kidney Research UK-funded project exploring early and life course determinants of chronic kidney disease in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, and as part of the Economic and Social Research Council National Centre for Research Methods node 'PATHWAYS', exploring biosocial influences on health.
Richard's PhD, completed in 2008, focused on issues in modelling growth data within a life course framework.
Richard is also the Webmaster and a Core Team Member of the Centre for Statistical Methodology.
Research areas
- Child health
- Statistical methods
Disciplines
- Epidemiology
- Life-course epidemiology
- Statistics
Disease and Health Conditions
- Kidney disease
Countries
- United Kingdom
-
Selected publications
-
Fetal growth, early life circumstances, and risk of suicide in late adulthood
Danziger, P.D.; Silverwood, R.; Koupil, I.
European Journal of Epidemiology, 2011; 26(7):571-581
-
Characterizing longitudinal patterns of physical activity in mid-adulthood using latent class analysis: results from a prospective cohort study.
Silverwood, R.J. ; Nitsch, D. ; Pierce, M. ; Kuh, D. ; Mishra, G.D. ;
Am J Epidemiol, 2011; 174(12):1406-15
-
BMI peak in infancy as a predictor for later BMI in the Uppsala Family Study.
Silverwood, R.J.; De Stavola, B.L.; Cole, T.J.; Leon, D.A.;
Int J Obes (Lond), 2009; 33(8):929-37
-
Association of higher parental and grandparental education and higher school grades with risk of hospitalization for eating disorders in females: the Uppsala birth cohort multigenerational study.
Ahren-Moonga, J.; Silverwood, R.; Klinteberg, B.A.; Koupil, I.;
Am J Epidemiol, 2009; 170(5):566-75
-
Long-term trends in BMI: are contemporary childhood BMI growth references appropriate when looking at historical datasets?
Silverwood, R.J.; Leon, D.A.; de Stavola, B.L.
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2009; 1(1):27-44
-
Statistical methods for constructing gestational age-related reference intervals and centile charts for fetal size.
Silverwood, R.J.; Cole, T.J.;
Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol, 2007; 29(1):6-13
- → View all Richard Silverwood's publications
