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Ms Poppy Mallinson

Assistant Professor

United Kingdom

I am a non-communicable disease epidemiologist interested in applying approaches from health data science and epidemiology to advance understanding of the aetiology and prevention of cardiometabolic diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Affiliations

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

Teaching

I co-organise and lecture on the taught-course module Epidemiology for Health Data Science (renamed Concepts and Methods in Epidemiology from Sept 2023), which provides a foundation in epidemiological thinking around study design, bias and causality for MSc Health Data Science and Medical Statistics students. I also lecture on the Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Diseases module and the Global NCD Short Course, as well as being a personal tutor for the MSc Epidemiology and supervising several Masters and PhD students. Please do get in touch if you are interested in collaborating!

Research

My current research aim is to integrate high-resolution data from multiple modalities (imaging, biomarkers, etc) to better understand population differences in cardiometabolic disease progression and risk. Most of my work focusses on India, where I am closely involved with running APCAPS, an intergenerational cohort on non-communicable disease and ageing (apcaps.lshtm.ac.uk). We are currently following-up the cohort for the fourth time to track the incidence and multimorbidity of non-communicable diseases, and to investigate their pathways using untargeted metabolomics. I also have an interest in structural and behavioural interventions to prevent cardiovascular diseases, and have worked on trials of Yoga in India, fruit and vegetable access in India, and diabetes management in Thailand. My PhD, also at LSHTM, investigated the influence of poverty across the life course on cardiovascular risk in Brazil and India.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, I have contributed to the design and execution of several projects aiming to reduce the impact of COVID-19 globally. These include a cluster trial of face-masks for preventing COVID-19 in India, a comparative study of COVID-19 incidence in India and the UK, and a clinical trial of an Indian traditional herb for promoting recovery in Long COVID in the UK (The APRIL Trial).

Research Area
Epidemiology
Data science
Life-course epidemiology
Molecular epidemiology
Disease and Health Conditions
Cardiovascular diseases
Diabetes
Heart disease
Stroke
Obesity
Chronic diseases
Non-communicable diseases
Country
India
United Kingdom
Brazil
Thailand
Region
South Asia
East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)
Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Socioeconomic position and cardiovascular mortality in 63 million adults from Brazil.
MALLINSON, PA C; LUHAR, S; WILLIAMSON, E; Barreto, ML; KINRA, S;
2021
Heart (British Cardiac Society)
Relative contribution of diet and physical activity to increased adiposity among rural to urban migrants in India: A cross-sectional study.
KINRA, S; MALLINSON, PA C; Cresswell, JA; Bowen, LJ; Lyngdoh, T; PRABHAKARAN, D; Reddy, KS; Vaz, M; Kurpad, AV; Davey Smith, G; Ben-Shlomo, Y; Ebrahim, S;
2020
PLOS MEDICINE
Effect of supplemental nutrition in pregnancy on offspring's risk of cardiovascular disease in young adulthood: Long-term follow-up of a cluster trial from India.
KINRA, S; GREGSON, J; Prabhakaran, P; Gupta, V; Walia, GK; Bhogadi, S; Gupta, R; Aggarwal, A; MALLINSON, PA C; Kulkarni, B; PRABHAKARAN, D; Davey Smith, G; Radha Krishna, KV; Ebrahim, S; KUPER, H; Ben-Shlomo, Y;
2020
PLOS MEDICINE
Childhood socio-economic conditions and risk of cardiovascular disease: results from a pooled sample of 14 011 adults from India.
MALLINSON, PA C; LIEBER, J; Bhogadi, S; KINRA, S;
2020
JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
Yoga-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation After Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Randomized Trial.
PRABHAKARAN, D; Chandrasekaran, AM; Singh, K; Mohan, B; Chattopadhyay, K; Chadha, DS; Negi, PC; Bhat, P; Sadananda, KS; Ajay, VS; Singh, K; Praveen, PA; Devarajan, R; Kondal, D; Soni, D; MALLINSON, P; Manchanda, SC; Madan, K; Hughes, AD; Chathurvedi, N; Roberts, I; Ebrahim, S; Reddy, KS; Tandon, N; POCOCK, S; ... Yoga-CaRe Trial Investigators,
2020
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
Evaluating novel methods of enhancing the impact of financial incentives on household nutrition in developing nations – authors’ reply
MALLINSON, PA C; Lieber, J; Kinra, S; Debbarma, A; Walls, HL; Bhogadi, S; Addanki, S; Pande, R; Kurpad, AV; Kannuri, NK; Aggarwal, S; Kulkarni, B; Finkelstein, EA; Deo, S;
2024
The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia
Burden, determinants, consequences and care of multimorbidity in rural and urbanising Telangana, India: protocol for a mixed-methods study within the APCAPS cohort.
LIEBER, J; Banjara, SK; MALLINSON, PA C; Mahajan, H; Bhogadi, S; Addanki, S; Birk, N; SONG, W; SHAH, AS; Kurmi, O; Iyer, G; Kamalakannan, S; Kishore Galla, R; Sadanand, S; Dasi, T; Kulkarni, B; KINRA, S;
2023
BMJ open
Multimorbidity and its behavioural risk
factors in Japanese community-dwelling
older people: A cross-sectional analysis in
the Nagasaki Islands Study (NaIS)
SONG, W;
2023
IUNS 22nd International Congress of Nutrition
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