Research project

The Wessex FRIEND Toolbox (Family Risk IdEntificatioN and Decision)

Research groups:

Population, Health and Wellbeing (PHeW)
Lead researchers:

Professor Dianna Smith,

Professor Nisreen A Alwan
Status:

Not active

Project overview

https://www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/research-areas/healthy-communities/completed-the-friend-tool-to-predict-childhood-obesity-and-provide-local-measures-of-poverty/

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Dianna Smith

Professor

Research interests

Small-area estimation for policy analysis

Connect with Dianna

Email: D.M.Smith@soton.ac.uk

Professor Nisreen A Alwan MBE, MBChB, MRCP, FFPH, MPH, MSc, PhD, FHEA, PGCAP

Professor of Public Health

Research interests

Public Health
Lifecourse Epidemiology
Long Covid

Connect with Nisreen A

Email: N.A.Alwan@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Population, Health and Wellbeing (PHeW)

We combine expertise in population, health and wellbeing with the application of technical excellence in geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis and qualitative methods.
Population Health Sciences

We research prevention of disease, reduction of health inequalities and optimisation of health and wellbeing for whole populations across the lifecourse, in the UK and internationally.