Ms Emily Humphreys

Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Epidemiology & Population Health

United Kingdom

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I am a part-time PhD student and part-time Consultant in Public Health in a London local authority, with interests in mental health, health inequalities and the social and structural determinants of health. I have worked in the voluntary sector, NHS, UK Health Security Agency and in local and regional government. I am particularly interested in how local, regional and national government policies can mitigate or exacerbate inequalities in mental health outcomes. I joined LSHTM as a research student in September 2021.

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Research

My research focuses on the impact of changes to maternity and paternity leave policy on mental health outcomes for parents. Applying quasi-experimental methods to evaluate a series of policy changes from the UK, my research will build a quantitative evidence base about the mental health effects of access to paid and job protected leave for new parents.

My PhD supervisors are Veronique Filippi and Stephen O'Neill at LSHTM, and Emilie Courtin at the London School of Economics.

Research Area

Social epidemiology

Impact evaluation

Evaluation

Social policy

Disease and Health Conditions

Mental health

Country

United Kingdom

Selected Publications

OP85 Association between paternity leave and the mental health of new parents: evidence from the UK

HUMPHREYS, E; O'Neill, S; Filippi, V; Courtin, E;

2024

SSM Annual Scientific Meeting

Reviewing essential public health functions in the Eastern Mediterranean Region post COVID-19 pandemic: a foundation for system resilience.

Mohamed-Ahmed, O; Aboutaleb, H; Latif, S; Watson, HL; Handley, R; HUMPHREYS, E; Gedik, FG; De Sa, J; Zhang, Y; Bhatia, T; DAR, O; Saikat, S; Squires, N; Mataria, A;

2024

BMJ global health

Non-communicable diseases, injuries, and mental ill-health in Africa: the role of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

Mohammed, A; Putnis, N; Kakunze, A; Riches, SP; HUMPHREYS, E; EATON, J; Bhatia, T; DAR, O; Raji, T; Walker, IF; Ogwell, A;

2023

The Lancet. Global health

Cost-effectiveness evidence for HPV self-sampling could be improved by giving greater attention to vulnerable populations.

HUMPHREYS, E; FOSS, A; LEGOOD, R;

2020

Preventive Medicine

Asthma-specific health-related quality of life of people in Great Britain: A national survey.

Upton, J; Lewis, C; HUMPHREYS, E; Price, D; Walker, S;