Professor Kate Northstone
B.Sc.(Hull), M.Sc.(Soton), PhD
Current positions
Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
I have been Executive Director for data at ALSPAC snce May 2017, having previously worked with the study between 1995 and 2015. I manage the data team and contribute to the day to day operational and strategic running of the study. I have full responsiblity for all aspects of data systems, data pipeline and data access.
I graduated from an MSc in Medical Statistics in 1995. I achieved a PhD by publication in 2008 in nutriitonal epidemiology. I have a number of research interests - past focus has been on nutrition, particularly looking at the diet as a whole through dietary patterns and I have published with experts in the fields of vision, asthma and allergy. I am developing my interest in the science of running, maintaining and collecting the best data from cohort studies.
Between 2015 and 2017 I was the Effectiveness lead at NIHR CLHARC West, leading a number of projects with a clinical focus and managing a team of quantitative analysts.
Teaching
I am the unit lead for the dissertation module for both the Public Health and Epidemiology Masters courses in the school, plus the 'Study Design' Unit for Epidemiology. I am a case-based facilitator for the first year medical students under the new curriculum and teach Evidence Based Medicine. I have organised and taught on departmental short courses: "Introduction to Stata" and "Introduction to Statistics".
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Understanding lived experience and behaviour during heatwaves
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
With 40°C heat becoming more and more commonplace in the UK where overheating in homes and buildings is a key risk (Climate Change Committee, 2021), understanding the lived experience of…Dates
01/10/2023 to 31/07/2024
Religious belief, health, and disease: a family perspective
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/06/2021 to 31/05/2026
8073: CLOSER I.Bickerstaff extension
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/08/2018 to 31/07/2019
Evaluating an online consultation system in GP practices
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
The research found:
- Patient satisfaction with the online consultations was high and they improved access for some patients, but staff at GP practices didn’t think they created efficiencies
- 70% of…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/02/2015 to 01/02/2017
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Selected publications
01/01/2012The associations between feeding difficulties and behaviours and dietary patterns at 2 years of age: the ALSPAC cohort
Maternal and Child Nutrition
A comparison of dietary patterns derived by cluster and principal components analysis in a UK cohort of children
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Are dietary patterns in childhood associated with IQ at 8 years of age? A population-based cohort study
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Factors associated with the development of peanut allergy in childhood
New England Journal of Medicine
Recent publications
08/01/2024Diet quality scores in childhood and arterial stiffness and carotid artery intima-media thickness in adolescence/early adulthood: findings from the ALSPAC cohort
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
Associations of childhood diet quality scores with arterial stiffness and carotid artery intima-media thickness in adolescence/early adulthood: findings from the ALSPAC cohort
British Journal of Nutrition
Inflammation proteomics datasets in the ALSPAC cohort
Wellcome Open Research
Later eating rhythm measured in children at 7 years of age in the ALSPAC cohort
Wellcome Open Research
Measures of puberty in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) offspring cohort
Wellcome Open Research