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.


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.

Welfare

Housing

Health

Employment

Education

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

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

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

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

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).
