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Ms Alexandra Kalbus

Research Fellow

United Kingdom

I have recently started as Research Fellow in the Department of Public Health, Environments and Society. I am also finishing my PhD in Public Health at LSHTM, and hold a bachlor's and master's degree in Health Sciences. These study programmes gave me with insights across multiple disciplines, including epidemiology, health economics, medicine, statistics, ethics, public health, occupational health and health promotion.

Affiliations

Department of Public Health, Environments and Society
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Research

As a Research Fellow, I carry out quantitative research using consumer purchase data to understand dietary inequalities and drivers of consumption. In my PhD project, I explored the relationship between the neighbourhood food environment and food and drink purchasing in England, and how this changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. I linked consumer purchase data to large-scale, mainly publicly available environmental data and explored associations using quantitative methods. My PhD is funded by a Bloomsbury Colleges Studentship, and my current position is with the NIHR SPHR.

Research Area
Nutrition
Public health
GIS/Spatial analysis
Epidemiology
Health inequalities
Applied statistics (non-medical)
Social and structural determinants of health
Country
United Kingdom

Selected Publications

Exploring the influence of deforestation on dengue fever incidence in the Brazilian Amazonas state.
KALBUS, A; De Souza Sampaio, V; Boenecke, J; Reintjes, R;
2021
PLOS ONE
COVID-19: impact on the urban food retail system and dietary inequalities in the UK
CUMMINS, S; BERGER, N; CORNELSEN, L; Eling, J; ER, V; GREENER, R; KALBUS, A; KARAPICI, A; LAW, C; Ndlovu, D; YAU, A;
2020
Cities & Health
Reviewing the role of ecosystems services in the sustainability of the urban environment: A multi-country analysis
Filho, WL; Barbir, J; Sima, M; KALBUS, A; Nagy, GJ; Paletta, A; Villamizar, A; Martinez, R; Azeiteiro, UM; Pereira, MJ; Mussetta, PC; Ivars, JD; Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra, JB; De Silva Neiva, S; Moncada, S; Galdies, C; Klavins, M; Nikolova, M; Gogu, RC; Balogun, A-L; Bouredji, A; Bonoli, A;
2020
Journal of Cleaner Production
International, inter-university transferability of a student health surveillance system (SuSy) tool
Reintjes, R; Holt, M; KALBUS, A; Powell, S;
2019
European Journal of Public Health
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