Dr Chin Yang Shapland
PhD, MSc, BSc
Current positions
Research Fellow
Epidemiology and Health Data Science
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Research interests
I am a Biostatistician, specialises in Genetic Epidemiology, and working at MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit. My research interest is in Mendelian randomisations, Bayesian approaches, triangulation, and prior elicitation.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
UNSEEN heatwave mortality
Principal Investigator
Description
To estimate 'plausible' heat-related mortality that could have been in the 2022 record-breaking UK heatwave had the weather pattern been different. Project funded by Elizabeth Blackwell Institute and Cabot Institute…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/06/2023 to 31/05/2024
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/09/2026Applying Bayesian Multivariable Mendelian Randomisation to Prioritise Candidate Causal Traits From High-Dimensional Data
Genetic Epidemiology
Early-life exposure to indoor mould and associations with lung function, lung function trajectories and asthma
Environmental Research: Health
Extending the Use of Mendelian Randomisation With Non-Inherited Variants to Assess Socially Transmitted Parental Exposures Under Assortative Mating
Genetic Epidemiology
Implications for future pandemics from a living systematic review and critical evaluation of observational studies of the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination against the Omicron variant
Vaccine
Acute effects of daylight saving time clock changes on mental and physical health in England
BMJ
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