Professor John Macleod
M.B.,Ch.B(Liv.), M.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Birm.), M.R.C.G.P, F.R.C.G.P
Current positions
Professor in Clinical Epidemiology and Primary Care & Joint Head of CAPC
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
John’s main epidemiological research interests are the explanation and amelioration of health inequality with a particular focus on the role of factors acting in earlier life and the use of routine data in epidemiological research. Clinically his research has focused on the treatment of substance use in the community and on screening and treatment for Chlamydia in primary care.
He is a co-director of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children and leads a Wellcome Trust funded programme developing methods to follow-up population based cohorts through linkage to administrative health and social data.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
DATAMIND - The Data Hub for Mental Health Informatics Research and Development
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/09/2021 to 31/08/2024
The shaping of emotional health and the mechanisms leading to (un)successful transitions for care-experienced young people
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/09/2021 to 31/08/2025
HDR-UK South West Better Care Partnership
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Better Care South-West Partnership is a collaboration of NHS commissioners, primary, secondary, community and mental health care providers, local authorities, and academia. They look to address real-world health problems using…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/05/2020 to 31/03/2023
National PReCePT (Prevention of cerebral palsy in pre-term labour) Programme Evaluation
Principal Investigator
Description
The NPP is the national adoption and spread of the PReCePT Quality Improvement Toolkit. The NPP aims to support all maternity units in England to increase their average uptake of…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/12/2018 to 31/05/2021
MRC Mental Health data Pathfinder
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
31/03/2018 to 31/03/2022
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
23/05/2024Association of COVID-19 with mental illness in vaccinated and unvaccinated people
JAMA Psychiatry
COVID-19 and Mental Illnesses in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People
JAMA Psychiatry
Risk of drug-related death associated with co-prescribing of gabapentinoids and Z-drugs among people receiving opioid-agonist treatment
Psychiatry Research
Access to publicly funded weight management services in England using routine data from primary and secondary care (2007-2020)
PLoS Medicine
Complete case logistic regression with a dichotomised continuous outcome led to biased estimates
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
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