Rate My Professor Ruth Dundas

Her research examines inequalities in mortality and contextual and social influences on health over the lifecourse, employing natural experimental designs to assess social policy impacts on maternal and child health. Dundas's methodological contributions include improving routine data usage for health inequalities analysis, evaluating complex interventions, and advancing multilevel modelling techniques. Notable publications encompass 'The health impact of Scotland's Baby Box Scheme: a natural experiment evaluation using national linked health data' (The Lancet Public Health, 2023), 'Pathways to inequalities in child health' (Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2019), 'Excess mortality in England and Scotland in 2022: The long shadow of austerity and the return to an unacceptable pre-pandemic baseline' (Journal of Critical Public Health, 2026), and 'A small area deprivation index for monitoring and evaluating health inequalities in a diverse, low and middle income country: the Índice Brasileiro de Privação (IBP)' (International Journal of Population Data Science, 2025). She promotes public engagement via a jigsaw tool for mortality inequalities findings and 'meet the expert' sessions at the Glasgow Science Centre. Dundas is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society since 1995, a Member of the Faculty of Public Health since 2023, and has held committee roles in the Royal Statistical Society Glasgow Local Group and the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health.