Close

Professor Neil Pearce

BSc DipSci DipORS PhD DSc FRSNZ FMedSci FFPH

Professor
of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Room
Room G33

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Tel.
+44 (0)20 9588151

Fax.
+44 (0)20 76372853

I joined the LSHTM at the beginning of 2011, after working in New Zealand for the last 30 years. I originally trained in biostatistics, before moving over to do a PhD in epidemiological methods. Since the completion of my PhD in epidemiology in 1985 I have been engaged in a wide range of public health research activities. In 1988 I co-founded the Wellington Asthma Research Group (WARG) at the Wellington School of Medicine. In 2000 I established the Massey University Centre for Public Health Research. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (FRSNZ) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSCi) and Past-President of the International Epidemiological Association (IEA).

Affiliations

Department of Medical Statistics
Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology

Centres

Centre for Global Chronic Conditions

Teaching

I currently teach epidemiology, biostatistics and public health courses at the LSHTM. I also teach at the annual European Educational Programme in Epidemiology (EEPE) summer course (http://www.eepe.org/), and on various IEA courses in developing countries (http://publichealth.massey.ac.nz/courses/2011/IEA%202011/IEA%202011.htm).

Research

I have a broad range of research interests with a common theme of applied epidemiological and biostatistical methods, particularly methods of study design and data analysis for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In terms of substantive research, during 1980-1988 my main research interest was in occupational epidemiology, and during this time I co-authored the leading textbook of occupational epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press in 1989. During the 1990s, at the Wellington Asthma Research group, I conducted a wide range of research projects including the identification of the role of the asthma drug fenoterol in the New Zealand asthma mortality epidemic, studies of the management of asthma in the community, and more recently studies of the causes of the increases in asthma prevalence in New Zealand and worldwide. I co-authored a textbook of asthma epidemiology which was published by Oxford University Press in 1998. During my ten years at the Massey University Centre for Public Health Research, we conducted a wide range of public health research including respiratory disease, cancer, diabetes, Maori health, Pacific health and occupational and environmental health research. My current research interests focus on epidemiological and biostatistical methods, and their application to studies of neurological disease, occupational and environmental health, asthma, and kidney disease.

Research Area
Environment
Health inequalities
Occupational health
Statistical methods
Discipline
Epidemiology
Statistics
Disease and Health Conditions
Cancer
Neurological disease
Asthma
Non-communicable diseases
Region
East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)
Europe & Central Asia (all income levels)
Euro area
European Union
Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)
Least developed countries: UN classification
Middle East & North Africa (all income levels)
Pacific island small states
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
World

Selected Publications

Exposure assessment for repeated sub-concussive head impacts in soccer: The HEalth and Ageing Data IN the Game of football (HEADING) study.
Basinas I; McElvenny DM; Brooker F; Robertson S; van Hoecke Y; Kemp S; Pearce N; Gallo V; Cherrie JW
2023
International journal of hygiene and environmental health
A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a plastics manufacturing plant.
Graham A; Raja A; Van Veldhoven K; Nicholls G; Simpson A; Atkinson B; Nicholls I; Higgins H; Cooke J; Bennett A
2023
BMC public health
Occupational differences in the prevalence and severity of long-COVID: analysis of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey
Kromydas T; Demou E; Edge R; Gittins M; Katikireddi SV; Pearce N; van Tongeren M; Wilkinson J; Rhodes S
2023
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Association between psychosocial work-related factors at midlife and arterial stiffness at older age in a prospective cohort of 1736 white-collar workers
Massamba VK; Talbot D; Milot A; Trudel X; Dionne CE; Vézina M; Mâsse B; Gilbert-Ouimet M; Dagenais GR; Pearce N
2023
BMJ Open
Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic: an updated analysis.
Matz M; Rhodes S; Tongeren MV; Coleman MP; Allemani C; Nafilyan V; Pearce N
2023
Journal of epidemiology and community health
Risk factors for SARS-Cov-2 infection at a United Kingdom electricity-generating company: a test-negative design case-control study
Rutter C; Van Tongeren M; Fletcher T; Rhodes S; Chen Y; Hall I; Warren N; Pearce N
2023
medRxiv
Safety of BNT162b2 and CoronaVac during pregnancy on birth outcomes and neonatal mortality: a cohort study from Brazil.
Tavares Veras Florentino P; Cerqueira-Silva T; Freire De Carvalho L; Jôse Oliveira Alves F; De Araújo Oliveira V; Mateus Oliveira Aguilar G; De Sousa Prado R; Soranz D; Pearce N; Boaventura V
2023
International journal of epidemiology
See more Publications