Our impact
For over 30 years, ALSPAC’s long-term health data has enabled major scientific discoveries, advancing understanding of health and disease in the UK and internationally, while also informing clinical guidance, professional practice and public policy.
Case studies
- Mental health and wellbeing impact of COVID 19
- Informing Bristol's health policy
- Fish consumption during pregnancy
- Exposure to peanut oil and risk of peanut allergy
- Childhood inequalities and lifelong health
- Smartphones, social media and mental health
- Internet use, self-harm and suicidal behaviour
- Mental health in pregnancy across generations
- Smoking and cardiovascular health in young people
- Liver disease in young adults
- Iodine in pregnancy and child cognitive development
- Childhood cardiovascular health and later brain structure
- How genes impact obesity risk
Policy briefings
We work with PolicyBristol, the University of Bristol's policy unit, to share briefings on our key findings.
Please see a selection of past briefings below.
- Better support is needed for young people vulnerable to abuse in intimate relationships
- The causes of cancer: implications for policy and practice
- Children who fail to meet UK dietary guidelines have worse cardiometabolic health as young adults
- Eating disorder symptoms and self-harm are linked to higher levels of depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Paediatric incontinence: early identification and treatment needed to prevent mental health problems