Andre Bedendo
Research Fellow
Profile
Biography
Andre Bedendo first joined the Department of Health Sciences as a Visiting Research Fellow in 2019. He returned in 2021 as a Research Associate and was promoted to Research Fellow in 2024. Before joining the University he worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychobiology (UNIFESP; 2017-2021).
His research spans a range of health-related topics, including drug use, complex health conditions, mental health and cancer. He has expertise in quantitative research methods - both observational and experimental- and has applied advanced statistical analyses, particularly in studies related to health, psychology and behaviour.
Andre has over a decade of teaching experience and has been supervising postgraduate students since 2016.
Qualifications
- BSc Psychology (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil)
- MSc Psychobiology (Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
- PhD Psychobiology (Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Departmental roles
Member of the coordination team of the Quantitative Research Network (QRN)
Committee Member of the Contract Researcher Forum
Research
Overview
His research interests involve analysis of real-world data, behaviour change mechanisms, mental health and well-being and digital interventions.
Projects
- Haematological Malignancy Research Network (HMRN)
- End of Life Care (EoL) for Infants, Children and Young People: a mixed methods evaluation of current practice in the United Kingdom (ENHANCE)
- SWiCH (Staff Wellbeing in Children's Hospices)
- Yourtube: The role of different diets in children who are gastrostomy fed
- Trends in the Prevalence and Complexity of Children with a Life-limiting or Life-threatening condition in Wales
Research group(s)
- Epidemiology and Cancer Statistics Group
- Public Health and Society
- Mental Health and Addiction
- Martin House Research Centre
Supervision
- Quantitative data analysis
- Alcohol and substance use
- Mental health
- Digital interventions development and assessment
Teaching
Undergraduate
Involved in multiple teaching activities in Brazil since 2012
Postgraduate
Member of teaching team for postgraduate module Advanced Regression Analysis, Department of Health Sciences - University of York
Member of the teaching team for two postgraduate modules: Regression Analysis and Regression Analysis (Online), Department of Health Sciences - University of York
Module Lead of the Evidence -Based Psychologymodule in the postgraduate course in Online Interventions in Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (Brazil)
Lecturer in the postgraduate course in Psychopathology and Addiction (2016-Present), Unisãopaulo (Brazil)
Lecturer of the Drug Addiction module of the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy postgraduate course, UNISAL (Brazil)
Involved in multiple teaching activities in Brazil since 2012
Other teaching
Co-supervisor of post-graduate students at the Department of Psychobiology, UNIFESP (Brazil)
External activities
Memberships
- International Network on Brief Interventions for Alcohol & Other Drugs (INEBRIA)
Editorial duties
Scientific Reports - Editorial Board Member (2024-Current)
Frontiers in Psychology - Associate Editor (2025)
Frontiers in Public Health - Associate Editor (2024)
Frontiers in Psychiatry - Review Editor (2021-Current)
Frontiers in Digital Health - Review Editor (2021-Current)
Invited talks and conferences
- 2024: Bedendo, A. Alcohol and Drugs: Key Aspects. Invited speaker at the Federal University of Rio Grande
do Norte - 2024: Bedendo, A. Positive reinforcement theories. Invited speaker on "Theories on the Development of Drug Dependence" section at the XXIV Summer Course on Psychobiology, UNIFESP (Brazil)
- 2021: Bedendo, A. Intervenciones eHealth durante la Pandemia de COVID-19, Invited speaker on the VII Congreso Internacional de Psicologia del Tucuman, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Tucuman (Argentina)
- 2021: Bedendo, A. Use of alcohol and other drugs among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Invited speaker on the I Congresso Brasileiro De Atenção À Saúde Mental Nas Universidades, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
- 2020: Bedendo, A. Epigenetics and drug use. Invited speaker on the Liga Acadêmica de Genética – LAGENE, Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba (Brazil)
- 2018: Bedendo, A. Epigenetics and Drug Addiction. Invited speaker on the VIII Curso Introdutório à Liga de Neurociências, Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba (Brazil).
- 2015: Bedendo, A. Theoretical Assumptions of Brief Intervention: Use and Limitations. Invited speaker on the VI Jornada de Psicologia (Brazil)
- 2015: Bedendo, A. Relationship between Genetics, Neuroscience and Behaviour and the Problematic Use of Substances. Invited speaker on the Seminar on Epigenetics and Use Drug Problem: What Are We Talking About? (Brazil)
- 2014: Bedendo, A., Alves, MVC, Pildervasser, JVN, Abrahao, KP, Favaro, VM, Antonio, BB. Scientific Dissemination with Criticism, Rigour and Humour. Invited speaker on the XIV Summer Course in Psychobiology, Federal University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
