About MatCHNet

Funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP), MatCHNet is a newly established UK-wide network that is developing a multidisciplinary, community of public health researchers, methodologists, policy makers and service providers. This community will come together to prioritise upstream policy interventions that can be evaluated using administrative data. Current academic disciplines involved in MatCHNet include epidemiology, child health, health informatics, population health statistics, public health science, health economics, and social science disciplines.

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Network members will together tackle several questions key to improving maternal and child health:

How do social, economic, and environmental policies vary across the 4 UK nations?

And what are the methods we need to examine how they affect maternal and child health?

MatCHNet will focus upon upstream policies that target the social determinants of health.

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Welfare

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Housing

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Health

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Employment

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Education

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Environment

And utilise administrative data including health, census, education and social care data to answer these important questions.

Meet the Team

Ruth Dundas

Ruth Dundas

Professor of Social Epidemiology, MRC/CSO Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow. Ruth is the Principal Investigator of MatCHNet having oversight of the network and providing advice on natural experimental methods.
Sinead-Brophy

Sinead Brophy

Professor of Public Health Data Science, School of Medicine, Swansea University. Co-Investigator (advises on data and policy context for Wales; link to Welsh stakeholders).
Richard Cookson

Richard Cookson

Professor, Centre for Health Economics, University of York. Co-Investigator (advises on econometric methods; link to non-health stakeholders).
Ruth Gilbert

Ruth Gilbert

Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, UCL. Co-Investigator (advises on data and policy context for England; link to English stakeholders; advises on paediatric care and conditions).
Joanne Given

Joanne Given

Research Fellow, Institute of Nursing and Health Research, Ulster University. Co-Investigator (advises on data and policy context for NI; link to NI stakeholders).
Pia Hardelid

Pia Hardelid

Lecturer, Institute of Child Health Population, UCL. Co-Investigator (advises on data and policy context for England; cross-country comparisons using linked data, link to English stakeholders).
Katie Harron

Katie Harron

Non-Clinical Senior Lecturer, UCL. Co-Investigator (advises on data linkage and administrative data issues).
Alastair Leyland

Alastair Leyland

Associate Director and Professor of Population Health Statistics, University of Glasgow. Co-Investigator (advises on use of administrative data to understand health inequalities; advise on natural experiment methods).
Anna-Pearce

Anna Pearce

Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, University of Glasgow. Co-Investigator (advises on social determinants of health; life course approaches, policy analysis).
Rachael Wood

Rachael Wood

Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Public Health Scotland. Co-Investigator (advises on public health, data and policy context for Scotland; link to Scottish stakeholders).
Emma Stewart

Emma Stewart

Research Associate, University of Glasgow. Research Network Co-ordinator (lead for network co-ordination; conducting policy mapping; liaising with project partners, mixed methods).