MRC Epidemiology UnitPostdoctoral Research Associate
Population Health Interventions
Current work and interests
Roxanne is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Population Health Interventions programme, working on a project evaluating use and acceptability of, funding mechanisms and demand for online spatial data visualisation tools for local public health decision-support.
Roxanne is interested in the use of qualitative methods to further our understanding of population health. She is also interested in the creation and evaluation of interventions and tools to improve population health and provide effective knowledge exchange.
Background and experience
She was awarded a BSc in Psychology (2014), MSc in Public Health (2015), and completed her PhD at the University of Sunderland. Her PhD was funded by Fuse (the UKCRC Centre for Translational Research in Public Health) and aimed to inform interventions that could be used to reduce alcohol consumption frequency in retirement. She was a Research Associate with the Population Health Interventions programme from 2018 until 2022, and rejoined the Unit in 2023 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.