Lorna Fraser
Professor of Epidemiology

Profile

Biography

Lorna Fraser’s background is in clinical paediatrics. She has a good track record of research in paediatric epidemiology with a focus in chronic disease in children, especially life-limiting conditions. Her other research interests include equal access to services for children and young people and spatial analyses.

Qualifications

• PGCAP, University of York
• PhD, School of Geography, University of Leeds
• MMedSci, Nutrition, Obesity and Health, University of Leeds
• MSc, Community Child Health, University of Warwick
• MRCPCH, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
• MBChB, University of Aberdeen

Departmental roles

• Member of the Data Governance Committee
• Member of the Science Faculty Board

Research

Overview

Lorna's research interests include epidemiology, health inequalities, spatial analyses, life-limiting illness in children, paediatric palliative care services, obesity, cancer and diabetes.

Projects

Current

• The Martin House Research Centre 
• Connected Health Cities
• Specialist peadiatric palliative care input for children with malignancies

Previous

• Paediatric Palliative Care Research Programme funded by Martin House Children’s Hospice
• Children in Scotland requiring Palliative Care: identifying numbers and needs (ChiSP Study)
• Prevalence of Life Limiting Conditions in Young Adults in England funded by Together for Short Lives
• Children and Young People with Life-Limiting Conditions and Hospital Admissions to Paediatric Intensive Care Units in England; the Development of a Clinical Scoring System.

Research group(s)

• Public Health and Society

Supervision

Lorna would be interested in supervising PhDs in the following areas: paediatric palliative care; paediatric epidemiology; chronic/long term conditions; and use of routine datasets.

Lorna currently supervises Debbie Box.

Publications

Full publications list

• Lorna Fraser's publications

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Dissertation supervisor for Master of Public Health and the MSc in Applied Health Research
• Lectures on the Epidemiology and  Health Research in Practice modules

Lorna is able to supervise Masters projects with a broad focus on chronic disease in children. Specific areas of interest include models of care and secondary analyses of routinely collected data.

External activities

Memberships

• Honorary Lecturer at the Institute of Child Health, UCL
• Visiting Research Fellow, Leeds Institute Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine (LICAMM)
• Together for Short Lives and Association for Paediatric Palliative Medicine National Research Group
• Chair of the Together for Short Lives Data for Children's Palliative Care Service Development and Delivery Taskforce
• Member of the executive committee of the Yorkshire and Humber Paediatric Palliative Care Strategy Network 2015-2017
• Member of the Health Research Authority Confidentiality Advisory Group 2015-2019
• Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Children's Eye Cancer Trust

Invited talks and conferences

• Feb 2017 ‘Introduction to children’s palliative care and the Children in Scotland requiring Palliative Care: identifying numbers and needs (The ChiSP Study)’ Palliative Care for the under 5s, Edinburgh
• Nov 2016.’Data for children with disabilities’ Council for Disabled Children, London
• July 2016 ‘Children with Life-limiting conditions, what does the data tell us?’ Louis Dundas Centre Seminar, London
• Feb 2016.’ Children in Scotland requiring Palliative Care’ Together for Short Lives Network Summit, Birmingham
• November 2015 ‘Children in Scotland requiring Palliative Care: identifying numbers and needs’ CEN conference, Edinburgh
• August 2015 ‘Children with Life-Limiting Conditions; the importance of data’, Children’s Hospice Association Scotland
• May 2015 ‘Children with Life-Limiting Conditions; use of routine data’ TFSL CEO of the Voluntary Sector, London
• May 2015 ‘Psychological and self-management challenges in children with long-term  conditions’ Children with Life-limiting conditions with a focus on equality of access
•  to Paediatric Palliative Care services workshop, City University, London
• Nov 2014 ‘Lost in transition - why we need special palliative care for teenagers and young adults, Irish Association for Palliative Care Annual Conference, Dublin
• Oct 2014 ‘Supporting Young Adults with Life-Limiting Conditions – Through Transition and Beyond’ Regional Action Group Conference, Marie Curie Hospice Bradford
• Sept 2014 ‘Children with Life-Limiting Conditions; use of routine data’ SCHARR Seminar Series, Sheffield
• July 2014 ‘Prevalence of life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in young adults in England (18-40 years)’ Yorkshire Palliative Medicine Regional Learning Group, St Gemma’s Hospice, Leeds
• March 2014 ‘The importance of population-based evidence to support the future planning of paediatric palliative care’, Keynote Speaker Together for Short Lives National Conference, Birmingham
• March 2014 ‘Life Limiting and Life-threatening Conditions in children and young people in the United Kingdom’ German National Association of Children’s Hospice Annual Meeting, Berlin
• Dec 2013 ‘Palliative Care for Children and Young People with Progressive Neuromuscular Disorders’, Routine Data Expert Series; Neurological Conditions. Public Health England and Cicely Saunders Institute, London
• Nov 2012 ‘Life-limiting Congenital Anomalies; use of HES data’ Yorkshire and Humber Congenital Anomalies Education Day, Leeds