Dr Ahmed Elhakeem
BMedSci(Cork), MPH(Essex), PhD(U.C.Lond.)
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Current positions
Research Fellow in Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Biography
Ahmed is an epidemiologist working on the EU funded LifeCycle and LongITools projects. His research uses large multicohort collaborations to study the determinants of cardio-metabolic and musculoskeletal health trajectories. His current research includes studies relating to medically assisted reproduction, pregnancy complications, pubertal growth, physical activity, and environmental exposures.
Research interests
Ahmed is an epidemiologist whose research uses multicohort studies and innovative statistical methods to examine the determinants of physical and mental health trajectories across the life course, with a particular focus on prenatal and early life influences on developmental trajectories. His main research interests include understanding the effects of assisted reproductive technology on offspring health, and determinants and life course outcomes of prenatal, childhood, and pubertal growth. His other areas of primary interest include examining the determinants of cardio-metabolic, musculoskeletal, and mental health trajectories. He has expertise and interest in the application and development of novel statistical methods for the analysis of longitudinal trajectories. He currently works on A.R.T-HEALTHPARTNERSHIP project where he leads the birth cohort collaboaration, and on the LongITools project, where he leads a package of research into the effects of environmental exposures on adolescent health trajectories. He previously worked on the Horizon 2020 LifeCycle project where he helped set up the EU Child Cohort Network.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Applied penalised regression spline analysis
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
02/05/2022
Effects of adolescent physical activity on physical and mental health in adulthood: novel multivariate pattern analysis of the intensity spectrum
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/12/2020
Dynamic longitudinal exposome trajectories in cardiovascular and metabolic non-communicable diseases
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/01/2020 to 30/06/2025
Publications
Recent publications
01/10/2024Early childcare arrangements and children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
Evaluation and comparison of nine growth and development-based measures of pubertal timing
Communications Medicine
Genome-wide analyses identify 21 infertility loci and over 400 reproductive hormone loci across the allele frequency spectrum
medRxiv
Green space exposure and blood DNA methylation at birth and in childhood – A multi-cohort study
Environment International
Green spaces and respiratory, cardiometabolic, and neurodevelopmental outcomes
Environment International