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Dr Helen Strongman

Associate Professor

United Kingdom

I am an epidemiologist with expertise in using UK electronic health record data for research that informs healthcare policy. My NIHR Advanced fellowship focusses on developing methods and research programmes that use electronic health record data to improve access to diagnosis and care for people with rare or low profile health conditions. I am using the sleep disorders narcolepsy and sleep apnoea as initial examples. In my previous role at LSHTM, I investigated risk of cardiovascular disease in cancer survivors.

My research at LSHTM builds on my previous role supporting the development and use of UK electronic health care records at the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD). I have a PhD (by published work) in Health Sciences from Warwick University, an MSc in Modern Epidemiology from Imperial College London, a BA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University, and previously worked in the global pharmaceutical industry. I am a Trustee & Director of Narcolepsy UK.

Affiliations

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

Teaching

I am a module organiser for the "Thinking Like a Health Data Scientist" MSc module which covers key considerations and decisions that need to be made by health data scientists concerning ethics, information governance, data scope and quality. I also facilitate practical sessions for the Statistical Methods in Epidemiology MSc module and the Systematic Reviews & Meta-analysis short course. I am a PhD supervisor, tutor MSc Health Data Science students, and supervise in-house and distance learning MSc summer projects.

Research

Research Area
Electronic health records
Epidemiology
Disease and Health Conditions
Non-communicable diseases
Country
United Kingdom

Selected Publications

NHS national data opt-outs: trends and potential consequences for health data research.
TAZARE, J; Henderson, AD; Morley, J; Blake, HA; McDonald, HI; WILLIAMSON, EJ; STRONGMAN, H;
2024
BJGP open
Checklist and guidance on creating codelists for electronic health records research
MATTHEWMAN, J; Andresen, K; SUFFEL, A; Lin, L-Y; Schultze, A; Tazare, J; BHASKARAN, K; Williamson, E; Costello, R; Quint, J; STRONGMAN, H;
2024
NIHR open research
Trends and Variation in Issuance of High-Cost Narcolepsy Drugs by NHS England Organisations and Regions from 2019-2022
Van Someren, F; Wiedemann, M; WARREN-GASH, C; Mistry, H; Miller, MA; Leschziner, G; Nolte, E; Belot, A; Smith, IE; Quinnell, T; Eriksson, SH; STRONGMAN, H;
2024
Elsevier BV
Regional variations in the pharmacological management of narcolepsy in secondary care
Fred, VS; Fiona, S; Milan, W; Brian, M; Sofia, E; Helen, S;
2023
Association of British Neurologists: Annual Meeting Abstracts 2023
P51 Who has been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnoea or narcolepsy in England? A population-based descriptive study
STRONGMAN, H; Warren-Gash, C; Belot, A; Nolte, E; Mistry, H; Miller, MA; Smith, I; Quinnell, T; Eriksson, S; Bhaskaran, K;
2023
Abstracts
Cancer history as a predictor in cardiovascular risk scores: a primary care cohort study.
STRONGMAN, H; HERRETT, E; Jackson, R; Sweeting, M; Lyon, AR; Stanway, S; Lawson, C; Kadam, U; SMEETH, L; BHASKARAN, K;
2022
The British journal of general practice
Chronology of healthcare resource use and comorbidities in people with obstructive sleep apnoea and narcolepsy before and after diagnosis: a descriptive study protocol
STRONGMAN, H; BELOT, A; BHASKARAN, K; Eriksson, S; Leschziner, G; Miller, M; Mistry, H; Molloy, A; NOLTE, E; Quinnell, T; Smith, I; TOMLINSON, L; WARREN-GASH, C;
2022
OSF
Does Cardiovascular Mortality Overtake Cancer Mortality During Cancer Survivorship?: An English Retrospective Cohort Study.
STRONGMAN, H; Gadd, S; Matthews, AA; MANSFIELD, KE; Stanway, S; Lyon, AR; DOS-SANTOS-SILVA, I; SMEETH, L; BHASKARAN, K;
2022
JACC: CardioOncology
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