Rate My Professor Sinead Brophy

Professor Sinead Brophy is a Professor of Public Health Data Science in the Medicine faculty at Swansea University Medical School. She holds the position of Professor (CIPHER) in Health Data Science and serves as Director of the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research, which adopts a life course approach to linking research data with routinely collected medical and education data to understand determinants of health and wellbeing. Brophy is also Lead of Early Years in Administrative Data Research Wales, Wales Regional Lead and Training Lead for Health Data Research UK (Wales/Northern Ireland), and module lead for Epidemiology in the BSc Medical Sciences and Population Health programme. Her research specializations encompass data science, epidemiology, maternal and child health, chronic conditions particularly arthritis, workplace health, and primary school networks. She supervises PhD projects on topics including adverse childhood experiences, domestic violence evaluation, asthma care outcomes, predictions of care entry, universal free school meals, and post-pregnancy weight reduction interventions.

Brophy contributes to national committees such as the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee of the MHRA, the Medical Research Council’s Population and Systems Medicine Board, the ESRC Research Methods Development grants commissioning panel, the College of Experts for DHSC/UKRI COVID-19 Rapid Response, and UKPRP networks on nutrition in schools and maternal-child health. Her key publications include the NCD-RisC pooled analysis of height and body-mass index trajectories in school-aged children from 2181 population-based studies across 200 countries (The Lancet, 2021), cardiovascular risk factors predicting cardiac events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and psoriasis (Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 2018), characteristics of children prescribed antipsychotics using routinely collected data (Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 2018), the Active Children Through Individual Vouchers Evaluation mixed-methods RCT (American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2019), and diagnosed prevalence of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome in Wales (BMJ Open, 2019). With over 15,000 citations on Google Scholar and 337 publications listed on ResearchGate, her work significantly influences public health data science and epidemiology.