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Dr Ruth Costello

Research Fellow

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

I joined the EHR group in 2022 as a research fellow to work on OpenSAFELY projects, mainly investigating healthcare disruption related to the pandemic. I previously worked at the University of Manchester where I mainly used CPRD data in studies in the area of rheumatic diseases. While working in Manchester I completed my PhD by publication, this included 7 studies with the theme of using digital data to investigate the management of rheumatoid arthritis. 

Affiliations

Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Research

Research Area
Health inequalities
Primary care
Electronic health records
Discipline
Pharmacoepidemiology
Epidemiology
Disease and Health Conditions
Coronavirus

Selected Publications

Living alone and mental health: parallel analyses in longitudinal population surveys and electronic health records prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic
McElroy E; Herrett E; Patel K; Piehlmaier D; Di Gessa G; Huggins C; Green M; Kwong A; Thompson E; Zhu J
2023
medRxiv
Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection among children and young people with pre-existing rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases
Kearsley-Fleet L; Chang M-L; Lawson-Tovey S; Costello R; Fingerhutová Š; Švestková N; Belot A; Aeschlimann FA; Melki I; Koné-Paut I
2022
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection among children and young people with pre-existing rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.
Kearsley-Fleet L; Chang M-L; Lawson-Tovey S; Costello R; Fingerhutová Š; Švestková N; Belot A; Aeschlimann FA; Melki I; Koné-Paut I
2022
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
ARUKCFE/BmiAlgorithm
Kopec-Harding K; Costello R
2022
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