Professor Ruth Dundas

Professor of Social Epidemiology (MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit)

MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Clarice Pears Building, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8TB

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286

Biography

Ruth is workstream lead for Understanding Inequalities in the Inequalities in Health Programme at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Science Unit and co-lead of the SHW Data Science Research Theme. Her main research interests are inequalities in mortality and contextual and social influences on health over the lifecourse. Her research evaluates the impact of social policies on maternal and child health, using natural experimental evaluations. She has methodological interests in improving the use of routine data to analyse health inequalities, methods for evaluating complex interventions and natural experiments and the development and application of multilevel modelling methods.

Ruth is the lead for the Maternal and Child Health Network (MatCHNet). MatCHNet is laying the groundwork for policy evaluations using administrative data for maternal and child health. Her interests in Global Health are to develop small area deprivation measures. She co-leads the Inequalities and Justice work in the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Inequalities, working both with colleagues in Brasil at CIDACS and also with the Universidad Internacional del Ecuador.

Ruth is also interested in novel methods for public engagement and communication of research findings. She developed a jigsaw to communicate key findings from our Inequalities in Mortality Report with the aim of engaging people in discussions around inequalities in mortality. She has participated as a ‘meet the expert’ at the Glasgow Science Centre.

She is an active member of the Royal Statistical Society Glasgow Local Group which organises seminars and meetings for statisticians in the Glasgow area; and the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health – the leading society in the UK for population health research.

Research interests

Ruth has a BSc (Hons) in Statistics from the University of Glasgow and an MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics from City University. She works in inequalities programme. Her current interests are inequalities in mortality in Scotland, contextual and social influences on health over the lifecourse, natural experimental evaluations and methods to deal with missing values in large routine data sets.

Publications

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Number of items: 116.

2025

Kamdar, A. et al. (2025) Secular trends in types of cardiovascular disease in the West of Scotland. Open Heart, 12, e003003. (doi: 10.1136/openhrt-2024-003003)

Walker, H. et al. (2025) Analysis of the kidney failure risk equation implementation in routine clinical practice and health inequalities in chronic kidney disease care: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Nephrology, 26, 113. (doi: 10.1186/s12882-025-04043-0)

Craig, P. , Campbell, M. , Deidda, M. , Dundas, R. , Green, J., Katikireddi, S. V. , Lewsey, J. , Ogilvie, D., de Vocht, F. and White, M. (2025) Using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions: a framework for producers, funders, publishers and users of evidence. Public Health Research, 13(3), (doi: 10.3310/JTYW6582)

Craig, P. , Campbell, M. , Deidda, M. , Dundas, R. , Green, J., Katikireddi, S. V. , Lewsey, J. , Ogilvie, D., de Vocht, F. and White, M. (2025) Using natural experiments to evaluate population health and health system interventions: new framework for producers and users of evidence. British Medical Journal, 388, e080505. (doi: 10.1136/bmj-2024-080505)

2024

Sosenko, F. et al. (2024) Cancer diagnosis after emergency presentation: impact of demographics, cancer types, and pandemic. Academia Oncology, 1(2), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.20935/AcadOnco7422)

Ho, F. et al. (2024) Maternal and pregnancy factors contributing to the association between area deprivation and infant mortality in England: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet Regional Health - Europe, (doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.101075) (In Press)

Broadbent, P., Walsh, D. , Katikireddi, S. V. , Gallagher, C., Dundas, R. and McCartney, G. (2024) Is Austerity responsible for the stalled mortality trends across many high-income countries? A systematic review. International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, 54(4), pp. 362-379. (doi: 10.1177/27551938241255041) (PMID:38767141) (PMCID:PMC11437704)

Friel, C., Leyland, A. H. , Anderson, J. J. , Havdahl, A., Brantsæter, A. L. and Dundas, R. (2024) Healthy prenatal dietary pattern and offspring autism. JAMA Network Open, 7(7), e2422815. (doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.22815) (PMID:39023891) (PMCID:PMC11258593)

Gonzaga, M. R. et al. (2024) Estimation and probabilistic projection of age- and sex-specific mortality rates across Brazilian municipalities between 2010 and 2030. Population Health Metrics, 22, 9. (doi: 10.1186/s12963-024-00329-x) (PMID:38802870) (PMCID:PMC11129360)

Friel, C. , Walsh, D. , Whyte, B., Dibben, C., Feng, Z., Baker, G., Kelly, P., Demou, E. and Dundas, R. (2024) The health benefits of pedestrian and cyclist commuting: evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study. BMJ Public Health, 2(1), e001295. (doi: 10.1136/bmjph-2024-001295)

Pearce, A. , Henery, P., Katikireddi, S. V. , Dundas, R. , Leyland, A. H. , Nicholls, D., Viner, R. M., Fenton, L. and Hope, S. (2024) Childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): socio-economic inequalities in symptoms, impact, diagnosis and medication. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 29(2), pp. 126-135. (doi: 10.1111/camh.12707) (PMID:38497431)

Henery, P., Dundas, R. , Katikireddi, S. V. , Leyland, A. H. , Fenton, L., Scott, S., Cameron, C. and Pearce, A. (2024) A maternal and child health administrative cohort in Scotland: the utility of linked administrative data for understanding early years’ outcomes and inequalities. International Journal of Population Data Science, 9(2), 12. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v9i2.2402)

Seaman, R. , Walsh, D. , Beatty, C., McCartney, G. and Dundas, R. (2024) Social security cuts and life expectancy: a longitudinal analysis of local authorities in England, Scotland, and Wales. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 78, pp. 82-87. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-220328) (PMID:37935573)

2023

Dundas, R. et al. (2023) Evaluation of the Healthy Start Voucher Scheme in UK: a natural experiment using the Growing Up in Scotland record linkage study and the Infant Feeding Survey. Public Health Research, 11(11), (doi: 10.3310/RTEU2107) (PMID:37953640)

Stewart, E. et al. (2023) Using administrative data to evaluate national policy impacts on child and maternal health: A research framework from the Maternal and Child Health Network (MatCHNet). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 77(11), pp. 710-713. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-220621) (PMID:37463771) (PMCID:PMC7615194)

McCabe, R. , Katikireddi, S. V. , Dundas, R. and Craig, P. (2023) The health impact of Scotland's Baby Box Scheme: a natural experiment evaluation using national linked health data. Lancet Public Health, 8(7), e504-e510. (doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00121-4) (PMID:37393089) (PMCID:PMC10323308)

Stewart, E. et al. (2023) Identifying opportunities for upstream evaluations relevant to child and maternal health: a UK policy-mapping review. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 108(7), pp. 556-562. (doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2022-325219) (PMID:37001969) (PMCID:PMC10314013)

Oberndorfer, M. , Henery, P. M., Dundas, R. , Leyland, A. H. , Paranjothy, S., Stock, S. J., Wood, R., Nelson, S. M. , Kearns, R. and Pearce, A. (2023) Study protocol: examining the impacts of COVID-19 mitigation measures on pregnancy and birth outcomes in Scotland—a linked administrative data study. BMJ Open, 13(2), e066293. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066293) (PMID:36792327) (PMCID:PMC9933130)

Kelly-Irving, M., Ball, W. P., Bambra, C., Delpierre, C., Dundas, R. , Lynch, J., McCartney, G. and Smith, K. (2023) Falling down the rabbit hole? Methodological, conceptual and policy issues in current health inequalities research. Critical Public Health, 33(1), pp. 37-47. (doi: 10.1080/09581596.2022.2036701)

McCabe, R. , Katikireddi, S. V. , Dundas, R. , Gissler, M. and Craig, P. (2023) Impact of the Finnish Maternity Grant on infant mortality rates in the 20th century: a natural experimental study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 77(1), pp. 34-37. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2022-219488) (PMID:36302615) (PMCID:PMC9763162)

2022

Shaw, R. J. et al. (2022) Biases arising from linked administrative data for epidemiological research: a conceptual framework from registration to analyses. European Journal of Epidemiology, 37(12), pp. 1215-1224. (doi: 10.1007/s10654-022-00934-w) (PMID:36333542) (PMCID:PMC9792414)

Walsh, D. , Dundas, R. , McCartney, G. , Gibson, M. and Seaman, R. (2022) Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 76(12), pp. 1027-1033. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2022-219645) (PMID:36195463) (PMCID:PMC9664129)

McCartney, G. , McMaster, R. , Popham, F. , Dundas, R. and Walsh, D. (2022) Is austerity a cause of slower improvements in mortality in high-income countries? A panel analysis. Social Science and Medicine, 313, 115397. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115397) (PMID:36194952)

Craig, P. et al. (2022) Making better use of natural experimental evaluation in population health. British Medical Journal, 379, e070872. (doi: 10.1136/bmj-2022-070872) (PMID:36280251) (PMCID:PMC7613963)

Mitchell, S. N. et al. (2022) FAIR Data Pipeline: provenance-driven data management for traceable scientific workflows. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 380(2233), 20210300. (doi: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0300) (PMID:35965468) (PMCID:PMC9376726)

Shaw, R. , Harron, K., Pescarini, J., Júnior, E., Siroky, A., Campbell, D. , Dundas, R. , Ichihara, M. Y., Barreto, M. and Katikireddi, V. (2022) Biases Arising from Using Linked Administrative Data for Research: A Conceptual Framework from Registration to Analysis. In: 2022 International Population Data Linkage, Edinburgh, UK, 7-9 Sept 2022, (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1800)

Oberndorfer, M. , Dundas, R. , Leyland, A. H. and Pearce, A. (2022) The LoCo (Lockdown Cohort)-effect: why the LoCo may have better life prospects than previous and subsequent birth cohorts. European Journal of Public Health, 32(3), pp. 339-340. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckac049) (PMID:35512397) (PMCID:PMC9159303)

Falcão, I. R. et al. (2022) Evaluating the effect of Bolsa Familia, Brazil’s conditional cash transfer programme, on maternal and child health: A study protocol. PLoS ONE, 17(5), e0268500. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268500) (PMID:35604890) (PMCID:PMC9126365)

Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (2022) Investing in early years to reduce non-communicable diseases in adults. European Journal of Public Health, 32(2), pp. 174-175. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckab203) (PMID:34849738)

McMinn, M. , Seaman, R. , Dundas, R. , Pell, J. P. and Leyland, A. H. (2022) Socio‐economic inequalities in rates of amenable mortality in Scotland: Analyses of the fundamental causes using the Scottish Longitudinal Study, 1991–2010. Population, Space and Place, 28(3), e2835. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2385) (PMID:35411206) (PMCID:PMC7612592)

Kainth, G., Turner, F., Crawford, K., Watson, N. , Dundas, R. and Minnis, H. (2022) Process evaluation protocol for the (BeST?) Services trial. Developmental Child Welfare, 4(1), pp. 56-72. (doi: 10.1177/25161032211070861)

Allik, M. , Brown, D. , Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (2022) Differences in ill health and in socioeconomic inequalities in health by ethnic groups: a cross-sectional study using 2011 Scottish Census. Ethnicity and Health, 27(1), pp. 190-208. (doi: 10.1080/13557858.2019.1643009) (PMID:31313591)

Diógenes, V. H. D. et al. (2022) Differentials in death count records by databases in Brazil in 2010. Revista de Saúde Pública, 56, 92. (doi: 10.11606/s1518-8787.2022056004282) (PMID:36287489) (PMCID:PMC9586519)

Ichihara, M. Y. et al. (2022) Mortality inequalities measured by socioeconomic indicators in Brazil: a scoping review. Revista de Saúde Pública, 56, 85. (doi: 10.11606/s1518-8787.2022056004178) (PMID:36228230) (PMCID:PMC9529207)

2021

French, D. P., Miles, L. M., Elbourne, D., Farmer, A., Gulliford, M., Locock, L., Sutton, S., McCambridge, J., Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. (2021) Reducing bias in trials due to reactions to measurement: experts produced recommendations informed by evidence. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 139, pp. 130-139. (doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.06.028) (PMID:34229092)

Brown, D. , Conway, D. I. , McMahon, A. D. , Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (2021) Cancer mortality 1981-2016 and contribution of specific cancers to current socioeconomic inequalities in all cancer mortality: a population-based study. Cancer Epidemiology, 74, 102010. (doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2021.102010) (PMID:34418667) (PMCID:PMC7611600)

Katikireddi, S. V. , Lal, S., Carrol, E. D., Niedzwiedz, C. L. , Khunti, K., Dundas, R. , Diderichsen, F. and Barr, B. (2021) Unequal impact of the COVID-19 crisis on minority ethnic groups: a framework for understanding and addressing inequalities. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 75(10), pp. 970-974. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2020-216061) (PMID:33883198)

French, D. P., Miles, L. M., Elbourne, D., Farmer, A., Gulliford, M., Locock, L., Sutton, S., McCambridge, J., Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. (2021) Reducing bias in trials from reactions to measurement: the MERIT study including developmental work and expert workshop. Health Technology Assessment, 25(55), (doi: 10.3310/hta25550) (PMID:34553685)

Friel, C. , Leyland, A. H. , Anderson, J. J. , Havdahl, A., Borge, T., Shimonovich, M. and Dundas, R. (2021) Prenatal vitamins and the risk of offspring autism spectrum disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis. Nutrients, 13(8), 2558. (doi: 10.3390/nu13082558) (PMID:34444717) (PMCID:PMC8398897)

Henery, P. M., Dundas, R. , Katikireddi, S. V. , Leyland, A. , Wood, R. and Pearce, A. (2021) Social inequalities and hospital admission for unintentional injury in young children in Scotland: a nationwide linked cohort study. Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 6, 100117. (doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100117) (PMID:34291228) (PMCID:PMC8278494)

Wami, W. , Walsh, D. , Hennig, B. D., McCartney, G. , Dorling, D., Galaea, S., Sampson, L. and Dundas, R. (2021) Spatial and temporal inequalities in mortality in the USA, 1968-2016. Health and Place, 70, 102586. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102586) (PMID:34010784)

McCartney, G. , Leyland, A. , Walsh, D. and Dundas, R. (2021) Scaling COVID-19 against inequalities: should the policy response consistently match the mortality challenge? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 75(4), pp. 315-320. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2020-214373) (PMID:33144334) (PMCID:PMC7958082)

Baxter, A. J. , Dundas, R. , Popham, F. and Craig, P. (2021) How effective was England’s teenage pregnancy strategy? A comparative analysis of high-income countries. Social Science and Medicine, 270, 113685. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113685) (PMID:33434717) (PMCID:PMC7895815)

2020

Allik, M. , Brown, D. , Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (2020) Deaths of despair: Cause-specific mortality and socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific mortality among young men in Scotland. International Journal for Equity in Health, 19, 215. (doi: 10.1186/s12939-020-01329-7) (PMID:33276793) (PMCID:PMC7716282)

Wami, W. , McCartney, G. , Bartley, M., Buchanan, D., Dundas, R. , Katikireddi, S. V. , Mitchell, R. and Walsh, D. (2020) Theory driven analysis of social class and health outcomes using UK nationally representative longitudinal data. International Journal for Equity in Health, 19, 193. (doi: 10.1186/s12939-020-01302-4) (PMID:33115485) (PMCID:PMC7594287)

Bernal, R. T. I., Hapuque de Carvalho, Q., Pell, J. P. , Leyland, A. , Dundas, R. , Lima Barreto, M. and Carvalho Malta, D. (2020) A methodology for small area prevalence estimation based on survey data. International Journal for Equity in Health, 19, 124. (doi: 10.1186/s12939-020-01220-5) (PMID:32731877) (PMCID:PMC7393920)

Katikireddi, S. V. , Niedzwiedz, C. L. , Dundas, R. , Kondo, N., Leyland, A. H. and Rostila, M. (2020) Inequalities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality across the life course by wealth and income in Sweden: a register-based cohort study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 49(3), pp. 917-925. (doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaa053) (PMID:32380544) (PMCID:PMC7394946)

Allik, M. , Ramos, D., Agranonik, M., Pinto Júnior, E. P., Ichihara, M. Y., Barreto, M. L., Leyland, A. H. and Dundas, R. (2020) Developing a Small-Area Deprivation Measure for Brazil. [Research Reports or Papers]

Butler, J., Black, C., Craig, P. , Dibben, C., Dundas, R. , Hilton Boon, M. and Popham, F. (2020) The long-term health effects of attending a selective school: a natural experiment. BMC Medicine, 18, 77. (doi: 10.1186/s12916-020-01536-7) (PMID:32241252) (PMCID:PMC7118818)

Allik, M. , Leyland, A. , Ichihara, M. Y. T. and Dundas, R. (2020) Creating small-area deprivation indices: a guide for stages and options. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 74(1), pp. 20-25. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2019-213255) (PMID:31630122) (PMCID:PMC6929699)

Leyland, A. H. and Dundas, R. (2020) Declining cardiovascular mortality masks unpalatable inequalities. Heart, 106(1), pp. 6-7. (doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2019-315708) (PMID:31615851) (PMCID:PMC6920040)

Malta, D. C., Bernal, R. T. I., Carvalho, Q. H. d., Pell, J. P. , Dundas, R. , Leyland, A. , Vasconcelos, L. L. C. d., Cardoso, L. S. d. M., Stopa, S. R. and Barreto, M. L. (2020) Women and evaluation of inequalities in the distribution of risk factors for Chronic non‑communicable diseases (NCD), Vigitel 2016–2017 = Mulheres e avaliação das desigualdades na distribuição de fatores de risco de doenças crônicas, Vigitel 2016-2017. Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia, 23, E200058. (doi: 10.1590/1980-549720200058) (PMID:32520106) (PMCID:PMC7613912)

2019

Pearce, A. , Dundas, R. , Whitehead, M. and Taylor-Robinson, D. (2019) Pathways to inequalities in child health. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 104(10), pp. 998-1003. (doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2018-314808) (PMID:30798258) (PMCID:PMC6889761)

Brown, D. , Allik, M. , Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (2019) All-cause and cause-specific mortality in Scotland 1981-2011 by age, sex and deprivation: a population-based study. European Journal of Public Health, 29(4), pp. 647-655. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckz010) (PMID:31220246) (PMCID:PMC6660111)

McCartney, G. , Bartley, M., Dundas, R. , Katikireddi, S. V. , Mitchell, R. , Popham, F. , Walsh, D. and Wami, W. (2019) Theorising social class and its application to the study of health inequalities. SSM - Population Health, 7, 100315. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.10.015) (PMID:31297431) (PMCID:PMC6598164)

Ellaway, A. , Dundas, R. , Robertson, T. and Shiels, P. G. (2019) More miles on the clock: neighbourhood stressors are associated with telomere length in a longitudinal study. PLoS ONE, 14(3), e0214380. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214380) (PMID:30921393) (PMCID:PMC6438484)

Deidda, M. , Geue, C. , Krief, N., Dundas, R. and McIntosh, E. (2019) A framework for conducting economic evaluations alongside natural experiments. Social Science and Medicine, 220, pp. 353-361. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.11.032) (PMID:30513485) (PMCID:PMC6323352)

Bernal, R. T. I., Felisbino-Mendes, M. S., de Carvalho, Q. H., Pell, J. , Dundas, R. , Leyland, A. , Barreto, M. L. and Carvalho Malta, D. (2019) Indicadores de doenças crônicas não transmíssiveis em mulheres com idade reprodutiva, beneficiárias e não beneficiárias do Programa Bolsa Família [Indicators of noncommunicable diseases in women of reproductive age that are beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of Bolsa Família]. Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia, 22(S2), E190012.SUPL.2. (doi: 10.1590/1980-549720190012.supl.2) (PMID:31596383) (PMCID:PMC6892639)

Wami, W. M., Dundas, R. , Molaodi, O. R., Tranter, M., Leyland, A. H. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2019) Assessing the potential utility of commercial ‘big data’ for health research: enhancing small-area deprivation measures with Experian™ Mosaic groups. Health and Place, 57, pp. 238-246. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.05.005) (PMID:31125848) (PMCID:PMC6686722)

2018

Ellaway, A. , Dundas, R. , Olsen, J. R. and Shiels, P. G. (2018) Perceived neighbourhood problems over time and associations with adiposity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(9), 1854. (doi: 10.3390/ijerph15091854) (PMID:30154306) (PMCID:PMC6164418)

Ichihara, M. Y. et al. (2018) Area deprivation measures used in Brazil: a scoping review. Revista de Saúde Pública, 52, 83. (PMID:30183845) (PMCID:PMC6122878)

Katikireddi, S. V. , Molaodi, O. R., Gibson, M. , Dundas, R. and Craig, P. (2018) Effects of restrictions to Income Support on health of lone mothers in the UK: a natural experiment study. Lancet Public Health, 3(7), e333-e340. (doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(18)30109-9) (PMID:29976327) (PMCID:PMC6038023)

2017

Olsen, J. R. , Dundas, R. and Ellaway, A. (2017) Are changes in neighbourhood perceptions associated with changes in self-rated mental health in adults? A 13 year repeat cross-sectional study, UK. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(12), 1473. (doi: 10.3390/ijerph14121473) (PMID:29186035) (PMCID:PMC5750892)

Dundas, R. , Molaodi, O., Gibson, M. , Katikireddi, S. V. and Craig, P. (2017) Health Impacts of UK Lone Parent Obligations: A Natural Experiment Study Using Data from the UK Household Panel Survey, Understanding Society. The Lancet 390(S3):S2. Meeting abstract: Public Health Science 2017, London, UK, 24 Nov 2017. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32937-9)

Leyland, A. H. , Ouédraogo, S., Nam, J., Bond, L., Briggs, A. H. , Gray, R., Wood, R. and Dundas, R. (2017) Evaluation of health in pregnancy grants in Scotland: a natural experiment using routine data. Public Health Research, 5(6), (doi: 10.3310/phr05060) (PMID:29035487)

Chambers, S. , Dundas, R. and Torsney, B. (2017) School and local authority characteristics associated with take-up of free school meals in Scottish secondary schools, 2014. In: Milne, Robin G. (ed.) Civic Engagement. Series: Contemporary issues in social science. Routledge. ISBN 9781138080171

Katikireddi, S. , Molaodi, O., Gibson, M. , Dundas, R. and Craig, P. (2017) Evaluating the Health Impacts of Restrictions to Income Support for Lone Parents: A Natural Experiment Study Using Understanding Society. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 71(Suppl. 1):A38. Society for Social Medicine, 61st Annual Scientific Meeting, Manchester, UK, 5-8 Sept 2017. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2017-SSMAbstracts.75)

Stewart, C. H., Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (2017) The Scottish school leavers cohort: linkage of education data to routinely collected records for mortality, hospital discharge and offspring birth characteristics. BMJ Open, 7(7), e015027. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015027) (PMID:28698325) (PMCID:PMC5734257)

Katikireddi, S. V. and Dundas, R. (2017) Relative poverty still matters. Lancet Public Health, 2(3), e126-e127. (doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(17)30029-4) (PMID:29253383)

2016

Craig, P. , Dundas, R. , Leyland, A. and Popham, F. (2016) How successful was the English teenage pregnancy strategy? Response to Wellings K, Palmer MJ, Gear RS et al. Changes in conceptions in women younger than 18 years and the circumstances of young mothers in England in 2000-12: an observational study. Lancet, 388(10060), p. 2604. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32223-1) (PMID:27894659) (PMCID:PMC6742502)

Schofield, L., Walsh, D. , Munoz-Arroyo, R., McCartney, G., Buchanan, D., Lawder, R., Armstrong, M., Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (2016) Dying younger in Scotland: trends in mortality and deprivation relative to England and Wales, 1981-2011. Health and Place, 40, pp. 106-115. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.05.007) (PMID:27235691)

Allik, M. , Brown, D. , Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (2016) Small-area deprivation measure datasets for Scotland, 2001 and 2011. Data In Brief, 7, pp. 1682-1686. (doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.04.060) (PMID:27761509) (PMCID:PMC5063812)

Allik, M. , Brown, D. , Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (2016) Developing a new small-area measure of deprivation using 2001 and 2011 census data from Scotland. Health and Place, 39, pp. 122-130. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.03.006) (PMID:27082656) (PMCID:PMC4889779)

O'Flaherty, M. et al. (2016) Exploring potential mortality reductions in 9 European countries by improving diet and lifestyle: a modelling approach. International Journal of Cardiology, 207, pp. 286-291. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.01.147) (PMID:26812643) (PMCID:PMC4766942)

Chambers, S. , Dundas, R. and Torsney, B. (2016) School and local authority characteristics associated with take-up of free school meals in Scottish secondary schools, 2014. Contemporary Social Science, 11(1), pp. 52-63. (doi: 10.1080/21582041.2016.1223871) (PMID:28191363) (PMCID:PMC5259801)

2015

Seaman, R. , Mitchell, R. , Dundas, R. , Leyland, A.H. and Popham, F. (2015) How much of the difference in life expectancy between Scottish cities does deprivation explain? BMC Public Health, 15, 1057. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2358-1) (PMID:26474578) (PMCID:PMC4608116)

Levin, K.A., Nicholls, N. , Macdonald, S., Dundas, R. and Douglas, G.V.A. (2015) Geographic and socioeconomic variations in adolescent toothbrushing: a multilevel cross-sectional study of 15 year olds in Scotland. Journal of Public Health, 37(1), pp. 107-115. (doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdu034) (PMID:24917568) (PMCID:PMC4699261)

2014

Dundas, R. , Leyland, A. and Macintyre, S. (2014) Dundas et al. respond to "Multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity". American Journal of Epidemiology, 180(2), pp. 213-214. (doi: 10.1093/aje/kwu109)

Levin, K.A., Dundas, R. , Miller, M. and McCartney, G. (2014) Socioeconomic and geographic inequalities in adolescent smoking: a multilevel cross-sectional study of 15 year olds in Scotland. Social Science and Medicine, 107, pp. 162-170. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.02.016)

Hotchkiss, J.W. et al. (2014) Explaining trends in Scottish coronary heart disease mortality between 2000 and 2010 using IMPACTSEC model: retrospective analysis using routine data. British Medical Journal, 348, g1088. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.g1088)

Brown, D. , Allik, M. , Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (2014) Carstairs Scores for Scottish Postcode Sectors, Datazones and Output Areas from the 2011 Census. [Research Reports or Papers]

Dundas, R. , Ouédraogo, S., Bond, L., Briggs, A.H. , Chalmers, J., Gray, R., Wood, R. and Leyland, A.H. (2014) Evaluation of Health in Pregnancy grants in Scotland: a protocol for a natural experiment. BMJ Open, 4(10), e006547. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006547)

Dundas, R. , Leyland, A. H. and Macintyre, S. (2014) Early-life school, neighbourhood and family influences on adult health: a multilevel cross-classified analysis of the Aberdeen children of the 1950s study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 180(2), pp. 197-207. (doi: 10.1093/aje/kwu110)

Ralston, K., Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (2014) A comparison of the Scottish index of multiple deprivation (SIMD) 2004 with the 2009 + 1 SIMD: does choice of measure affect the interpretation of inequality in mortality? International Journal of Health Geographics, 13, 27. (doi: 10.1186/1476-072X-13-27) (PMID:25001866) (PMCID:PMC4105786)

2013

Hotchkiss, J.W. et al. (2013) OP53 explaining Scottish coronary heart disease mortality trends between 2000 and 2010: socioeconomic analyses using the impact sec model. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 67(Sup 1), A26-A26. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-203126.53)

Dundas, R. , Ralston, K., Walsh, D. and Leyland, A. (2013) OP31 Is excess mortality in Glasgow an artefact of inadequate control for deprivation: a case-control study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 67(Sup 1), A16-A17. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-203126.31)

2011

Fairley, L., Dundas, R. and Leyland, A.H. (2011) The influence of both individual and area based socioeconomic status on temporal trends in Caesarean sections in Scotland 1980-2000. BMC Public Health, 11, p. 330. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-330)

2010

Leyland, A.H. and Dundas, R. (2010) The social patterning of deaths due to assault in Scotland, 1980-2005: population-based study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 64(5), pp. 432-439. (doi: 10.1136/jech.2009.095018)

Dundas, R. and Leyland, A.H. (2010) The social patterning of deaths due to assault in Scotland, 1980-2005: a population based study. AQMeN Applied Quantitative Methods Newsletter(3),

2009

Batty, G.D., Shipley, M.J., Dundas, R., Macintyre, S., Der, G., Mortensen, L.H. and Deary, I.J. (2009) Does IQ explain socio-economic differentials in total and cardiovascular disease mortality? Comparison with the explanatory power of traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors in the Vietnam Experience Study. European Heart Journal, 30(15), pp. 1903-1909. (doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp254)

Davies, C.A., Dundas, R. and Leyland, A.H. (2009) Increasing socioeconomic inequalities in first acute myocardial infarction in Scotland, 1990–92 and 2000–02. BMC Public Health, 9, p. 134. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-134)

2007

Leyland, A.H., Dundas, R., McLoone, P. and Boddy, F.A. (2007) Cause-specific inequalities in mortality in Scotland: two decades of change - a population-based study. BMC Public Health, 7, p. 172. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-172)

Leyland, A.H., Dundas, R., McLoone, P. and Boddy, F.A. (2007) Inequalities in Mortality in Scotland, 1981-2001. Series: Occasional paper (Medical Research Council (Great Britain). Social and Public Health Sciences Unit) (16). MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit: Glasgow, UK. ISBN 9781901519068

2006

Dundas, R. , Leyland, A.H., Macintyre, S. and Leon, D.A. (2006) Does the primary school attended influence self-reported health or its risk factors in later life? Aberdeen Children of the 1950s Study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 35(2), pp. 458-465. (doi: 10.1093/ije/dyi239)

2001

Bhalla, A., Dundas, R. , Rudd, A.G. and Wolfe, C.D.A. (2001) Does admission to hospital improve the outcome for stroke patients? Age and Ageing, 30(3), pp. 197-203. (doi: 10.1093/ageing/30.3.197)

Dundas, R. , Morgan, M., Redfern, J., Lemic-Stojcevic, N. and Wolfe, C. (2001) Ethnic differences in behavioural risk factors for stroke: implications for health promotion. Ethnicity and Health, 6(2), pp. 95-103. (doi: 10.1080/13557850120068423)

Grieve, R., Dundas, R. , Beech, R. and Wolfe, C. (2001) The development and use of a method to compare the costs of acute stroke across Europe. Age and Ageing, 30(1), pp. 67-72. (doi: 10.1093/ageing/30.1.67)

Grieve, R., Hutton, J., Bhalla, A., Rastenyte, D., Ryglewicz, D., Sarti, C., Lamassa, M., Giroud, M., Dundas, R. and Wolfe, C.D.A. (2001) A comparison of the costs and survival of hospital-admitted stroke patients across Europe. Stroke, 32(7), pp. 1684-1691. (doi: 10.1161/01.STR.32.7.1684)

Hajat, C., Dundas, R. , Stewart, J.A., Lawrence, E., Rudd, A.G., Howard, R. and Wolfe, C.D.A. (2001) Cerebrovascular risk factors and stroke subtypes : differences between ethnic groups. Stroke, 32(1), pp. 37-42. (doi: 10.1161/01.STR.32.1.37)

Lawrence, E., Dundas, R. , Higgens, S., Howard, R., Rudd, A., Wolfe, C. and Williams, A. (2001) The natural history and associations of sleep disordered breathing in first ever stroke. International Journal of Clinical Practice, 55(9), pp. 584-588.

Lawrence, E.S., Coshall, C., Dundas, R. , Stewart, J., Rudd, A.G., Howard, R. and Wolfe, C.D.A. (2001) Estimates of the prevalence of acute stroke impairments and disability in a multiethnic population. Stroke, 32(6), pp. 1279-1284. (doi: 10.1161/01.STR.32.6.1279)

Lemic-Stojcevic, N., Dundas, R. , Jenkins, S., Rudd, A. and Wolfe, C. (2001) Preventable risk factors for coronary heart disease and stroke amongst ethnic groups in London. Ethnicity and Health, 6(2), pp. 87-94. (doi: 10.1080/13557850120068414)

McKevitt, C., Dundas, R. and Wolfe, C. (2001) Two simple questions to assess outcome after stroke: a European study. Stroke, 32(3), pp. 681-686.

2000

Bhalla, A., Sankaralingam, S., Dundas, R. , Swaminathan, R., Wolfe, C.D.A. and Rudd, A.G. (2000) Influence of raised plasma osmolality on clinical outcome after acute stroke. Stroke, 31(9), pp. 2043-2048. (doi: 10.1161/01.STR.31.9.2043)

Hillen, T., Dundas, R. , Lawrence, E., Stewart, J.A., Rudd, A.G. and Wolfe, C.D.A. (2000) Antithrombotic and antihypertensive management 3 months after ischemic stroke : a prospective study in an inner city population. Stroke, 31(2), pp. 469-475. (doi: 10.1161/01.STR.31.2.469)

Redfern, J., McKevitt, C., Dundas, R. , Rudd, A.G. and Wolfe, C.D.A. (2000) Behavioral risk factor prevalence and lifestyle change after stroke : a prospective study. Stroke, 31(8), pp. 1877-1881. (doi: 10.1161/01.STR.31.8.1877)

Wolfe, C.D.A., Giroud, M., Kolominsky-Rabas, P., Dundas, R. , Lemesle, M., Heuschmann, P. and Rudd, A. (2000) Variations in stroke incidence and survival in 3 areas of Europe. Stroke, 31(9), pp. 2074-2079.

1999

Stewart, J.A., Dundas, R. , Howard, R.S., Rudd, A.G. and Wolfe, C.D.A. (1999) Ethnic differences in incidence of stroke: prospective study with stroke register. British Medical Journal, 318, pp. 967-971. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.318.7189.967)

Guite, H.F., Dundas, R. and Burney, P.G.J. (1999) Risk factors for death from asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cardiovascular disease after a hospital admission for asthma. Thorax, 54(4), pp. 301-307. (doi: 10.1136/thx.54.4.301)

Smeeton, N.C., Rona, R.J., Sharland, G., Botting, B.J., Barnett, A. and Dundas, R. (1999) Estimating the prevalence of malformation of the heart in the first year of life using capture-recapture methods. American Journal of Epidemiology, 150(7), pp. 778-785.

1998

Dickie, H., Vedio, A., Dundas, R. , Treacher, D.F. and Leach, R.M. (1998) Relationship between TISS and ICU cost. Intensive Care Medicine, 24(10), pp. 1009-1017.

1997

Cantillon, P., Morgan, M., Dundas, R. , Simpson, J., Bartholomew, J. and Shaw, A. (1997) Patients' perceptions of changes in their blood pressure. Journal of Human Hypertension, 11(4), pp. 221-225.

Marteau, T.M., Dundas, R. and Axworthy, D. (1997) Long-term cognitive and emotional impact of genetic testing for carriers of cystic fibrosis: The effects of test result and gender. Health Psychology, 16(1), pp. 51-62. (doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.16.1.51)

McKevitt, C., Morgan, M., Dundas, R. and Holland, W.W. (1997) Sickness absence and 'working through' illness: a comparison of two professional groups. Journal of Public Health Medicine, 19(3), pp. 295-300.

1996

Quinlivan, R.M., Lewis, P., Marsden, P., Dundas, R. , Robb, S.A., Baker, E. and Maisey, M. (1996) Cardiac function, metabolism and perfusion in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy. Neuromuscular Disorders, 6(4), pp. 237-246. (doi: 10.1016/0960-8966(96)00007-7)

Russell, R., Dundas, R. and Reynolds, F. (1996) Long term backache after childbirth: prospective search for causative factors. British Medical Journal, 312(7043), pp. 1384-1388. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.312.7043.1384a)

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Number of items: 116.

Articles

Kamdar, A. et al. (2025) Secular trends in types of cardiovascular disease in the West of Scotland. Open Heart, 12, e003003. (doi: 10.1136/openhrt-2024-003003)

Craig, P. , Campbell, M. , Deidda, M. , Dundas, R. , Green, J., Katikireddi, S. V. , Lewsey, J. , Ogilvie, D., de Vocht, F. and White, M. (2025) Using natural experiments to evaluate population health and health system interventions: new framework for producers and users of evidence. British Medical Journal, 388, e080505. (doi: 10.1136/bmj-2024-080505)

Sosenko, F. et al. (2024) Cancer diagnosis after emergency presentation: impact of demographics, cancer types, and pandemic. Academia Oncology, 1(2), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.20935/AcadOnco7422)

Ichihara, M. Y. et al. (2018) Area deprivation measures used in Brazil: a scoping review. Revista de Saúde Pública, 52, 83. (PMID:30183845) (PMCID:PMC6122878)

Katikireddi, S. V. and Dundas, R. (2017) Relative poverty still matters. Lancet Public Health, 2(3), e126-e127. (doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(17)30029-4) (PMID:29253383)

Dundas, R. and Leyland, A.H. (2010) The social patterning of deaths due to assault in Scotland, 1980-2005: a population based study. AQMeN Applied Quantitative Methods Newsletter(3),

Bhalla, A., Dundas, R. , Rudd, A.G. and Wolfe, C.D.A. (2001) Does admission to hospital improve the outcome for stroke patients? Age and Ageing, 30(3), pp. 197-203. (doi: 10.1093/ageing/30.3.197)

McKevitt, C., Dundas, R. and Wolfe, C. (2001) Two simple questions to assess outcome after stroke: a European study. Stroke, 32(3), pp. 681-686.

Dickie, H., Vedio, A., Dundas, R. , Treacher, D.F. and Leach, R.M. (1998) Relationship between TISS and ICU cost. Intensive Care Medicine, 24(10), pp. 1009-1017.

Cantillon, P., Morgan, M., Dundas, R. , Simpson, J., Bartholomew, J. and Shaw, A. (1997) Patients' perceptions of changes in their blood pressure. Journal of Human Hypertension, 11(4), pp. 221-225.

Books

Book Sections

Research Reports or Papers

Brown, D. , Allik, M. , Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (2014) Carstairs Scores for Scottish Postcode Sectors, Datazones and Output Areas from the 2011 Census. [Research Reports or Papers]

Conference or Workshop Item

Conference Proceedings

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Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

NIHR GHR Unit on Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Inequalities
National Institute for Health Research
2022 - 2027
MRC/NIHR guidance on Natural Experimental Evaluations (NEEs) for researchers and End-Users
Medical Research Council
2021 - 2023
Open Epidemiology for COVID-19: a transparent, traceable, open source pipeline for reproducible science
Science and Technology Facilities Council
2021 - 2022
UKPRP Community of Practice
Medical Research Council
2021 - 2023
Quinquennial Funding for Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
Medical Research Council
2020 - 2025
Nutrition Related Foetal Programming and Mental Health Outcomes in Offspring: a Social Perspective
British Dietetic Association
2019 - 2021
Harnessing cross-country administrative data to evaluate national policy impacts on maternal, infant and child health and health inequalities-MatCHNet
Medical Research Council
2019 - 2023
Causal effects of alcohol and mental health problems on employment outcomes: Harnessing UK Biobank and linked administrative data
The Health Foundation
2018 - 2020
Strengthening data linkage to reduce health inequalities in low and middle income countries: building on the Brazilian 100 million cohort
National Institute for Health Research
2017 - 2020
Evaluation of the Healthy Start Voucher Scheme in UK: a natural experiment using the Growing Up in Scotland record linkage study and the Infant Feeding Survey.
National Institute for Health Research
2015 - 2017
Quinquennial Core Funds
Medical Research Council
2015 - 2020
Evaluation of Health in Pregnancy Grants Scotland.
National Institute for Health Research
2014 - 2015
Trial of Healthy Relationship Initiatives for the Very Early-years (THRIVE): a Three-Arm Randomised Control Trial for Mothers Identified as Vulnerable in Pregnancy and their Babies who are at High...
National Institute for Health Research
2013 - 2019

Supervision

Hamilton, Rachel
The Impact of Early Learning and Childcare Characteristics on Health Inequalities among Children in Scotland

Teaching

Methodological interests in improving the use of routine data to analyse health inequalities, methods for evaluating complex interventions and natural experiments and the development and application of multilevel modelling methods.

Research interests in inequalities in health and mortality, early years, pregnancy and maternal health, using routine and administrative data for research.

Professional activities & recognition

Grant committees & research advisory boards

2020 - 2020: NIHR, Urgent Public Health Group
2022 - 2024: Wellcome Trust, Early Career Advisory Group in Population and Public Health
2022: NIHR, Population Health Career Scientist Award
2021 - 2024: UKRI, Future Leaders Fellowships
2024 - 2026: NIHR, Programme Grants for Applied Research

Editorial boards

2018 - current: Cochrane Public Health

Professional & learned societies

2023: Member, Faculty of Public Health
1995: Fellow, Royal Statistical Society
2013 - 2020: Committee Member Glasgow Local Group, Royal Statistical Society
2015 - 2017: Committee Member (Capacity Building), Society for Social Medicine
2018 - 2018: Chair Annual Scientific Meeting, Society for Social Medicine and Population Health
2019 - 2019: Chair Mid-Career Research Section, Society for Social Medicine and Population Health

Selected international presentations

2017: CDC Symposium on ‘Evaluation of Natural experiments of social & environmental interventions' (Atlanta, Georgia)
2018: International Seminar on Population Health Surveys (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2020: Indice Brasileiro de Privação (IBP) Webinar Series (Salvador, Brazil)

Research datasets

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2022

Brown, D. , Allik, M. , Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. (2022) Carstairs deprivation scores for Scotland. [Data Collection]

2020

Allik, M. , Ramos, D., Agranonik, M., Junior, E., Ichihara, M. Y., Barreto, M. L., Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. (2020) Small-area Deprivation Measure for Brazil: Data Documentation. [Data Collection]

2019

Allik, M. , Brown, D. , Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. (2019) Differences in Ill Health and in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health by Ethnic Groups: A cross-sectional study using 2011 Scottish Census. [Data Collection]

2016

Chambers, S., Dundas, R. and Torsney, B. (2016) School and local authority characteristics associated with take-up of Free School Meals in Scottish secondary schools 2014. [Data Collection]

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