Liina is a Research Fellow at the Department of Health Sciences, University of York, partly based at the Bradford Institute for Health Research. She is currently working on ActEarly, a large research project focusing on early life changes to improve the health and opportunities for children living in areas with high levels of child poverty, Bradford, West Yorkshire and Tower Hamlets, London. Prior to starting in this role, Liina worked as a Child Growth and Development Research Fellow at the Hospital for Sick Children, and as a doctoral researcher and University Teacher at Loughborough University.
Liina’s current research focuses on developing core outcomes sets for ActEarly, supporting the meta-evaluation of the program and using quantitative methods to understand overall system change as a result of the ActEarly interventions. Her wider research interests include investigating socioeconomic inequalities in child and adolescent health and growth globally using longitudinal cohort studies.