Dr Gemma Clayton
MSc, MSci, PhD
Current positions
Research Fellow in Health Data Science
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
After obtaining an MSci (Hons) in Mathematics at the University of Birmingham, I pursued my interest in statistics and data, and its application in the real world by undertaking an MSc in Medical Statistics at the University of Leicester. Having gained experience working for two years as a Medical Statistician at the Bristol Clinical Trials and Evaluation Unit, I began my PhD in clinical trials methodology in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Bristol. After my PhD, I took up a Senior Research Associate post within the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU) to broaden my statistical skills in life course epidemiology.
My research interests relate to the application of epidemiological methods to assess the role of women’s reproductive health on cardiovascular and cardiometabolic risk. I am particularly interested in the potential causal inferences which can be made from such epidemiological studies.
Publications
Recent publications
29/01/2024Integrating multiple lines of evidence to assess the effects of maternal BMI on pregnancy and perinatal outcomes
BMC Medicine
Social inequalities in pregnancy metabolic profile
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
The impact of reproductive factors on the metabolic profile of females from menarche to menopause
Nature Communications
A framework for assessing selection and misclassification bias in mendelian randomisation studies
BMJ
Glycoprotein acetyls and depression
Journal of Affective Disorders
Thesis
Incorporating external evidence syntheses in the design and analysis of trials
Supervisors
Award date
07/05/2019