Dr Helena Carreira

Assistant Professor

United Kingdom

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I hold degrees in Nutritional Sciences (Licenciatura, University of Porto), Public Health (MSc, University of Porto), and Epidemiology and Population Health (PhD, LSHTM).

I joined the Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology in 2013. Prior to joining LSHTM, I taught Epidemiology at the University of Porto Medical School. I also worked as a Research Fellow at the Public Health Institute, where I looked into the determinants of gastric and oesophageal cancers, and secular trends of risk factors for cardiovascular disease, in Portugal.

Affiliations

Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

I co-organise the MSc module ‘Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Diseases’ for the intensive MSc programmes, and I facilitate practical sessions of ‘Extended Epidemiology’ in the Autumn.

I supervise MSc projects of the MSc in Epidemiology program, and I tutor students of the MSc in Epidemiology and MSc in Health Data Science.

I co-supervise two doctoral students: a DrPH looking at barriers to colorectal cancer screening in Malaysia, and a PhD student investigating respiratory outcomes in cancer survivors in the UK.

Research

My research focuses on the use of electronic health records, which are routinely collected in primary care practices and hospitals in the UK, to study whether cancer survivors have different outcomes compared to people who did not have cancer. I am also interested in the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer survivorship, and have been involved in several studies including outcomes in cancer survivors.

Research Area

Epidemiology

Public health

Pharmacoepidemiology

Disease and Health Conditions

Cancer

Mental health

Non-communicable diseases

Cardiovascular diseases

Country

United Kingdom

Selected Publications

Risk of fractures in half a million survivors of 20 cancers: a population-based matched cohort study using linked English electronic health records.

Buzasi, E; CARREIRA, H; Funston, G; MANSFIELD, KE; FORBES, H; STRONGMAN, H; BHASKARAN, K;

2024

The lancet. Healthy longevity

The risk of acute kidney injury in colorectal cancer survivors: an english population-based matched cohort study.

ANDRESEN, K; CARREIRA, H; STRONGMAN, H; McDonald, HI; Benitez-Majano, S; MANSFIELD, KE; NITSCH, D; TOMLINSON, LA; BHASKARAN, K;

2023

BMC Cancer

Ethnic differences in the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical monitoring and hospitalisations for non-COVID conditions in England: a population-based, observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform.

COSTELLO, RE; Tazare, J; Piehlmaier, D; HERRETT, E; Parker, EP K; ZHENG, B; Mansfield, KE; HENDERSON, AD; CARREIRA, H; BIDULKA, P; WONG, AY S; WARREN-GASH, C; Hayes, JF; Quint, JK; MacKenna, B; Mehrkar, A; EGGO, RM; Katikireddi, SV; TOMLINSON, L; LANGAN, SM; Mathur, R; LH&W NCS (or CONVALESCENCE) Collaborative,; OpenSAFELY collaborative,;

2023

EClinicalMedicine

Factors associated with excess all-cause mortality in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: A time series analysis using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

STRONGMAN, H; CARREIRA, H; De Stavola, BL; BHASKARAN, K; LEON, DA;

2022

PLoS medicine

Indirect acute effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on physical and mental health in the UK: a population-based study.

MANSFIELD, KE; MATHUR, R; TAZARE, J; HENDERSON, AD; MULICK, AR; CARREIRA, H; Matthews, AA; BIDULKA, P; Gayle, A; FORBES, H; COOK, S; WONG, AY S; STRONGMAN, H; WING, K; WARREN-GASH, C; CADOGAN, SL; SMEETH, L; Hayes, JF; Quint, JK; McKee, M; LANGAN, SM;

2021

The Lancet. Digital health

Associations between breast cancer survivorship and adverse mental health outcomes: A matched population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom.

CARREIRA, H; Williams, R; Funston, G; Stanway, S; BHASKARAN, K;

2021

PLoS medicine

Prevalence of COVID-19-related risk factors and risk of severe influenza outcomes in cancer survivors: A matched cohort study using linked English electronic health records data.

CARREIRA, H; STRONGMAN, H; Peppa, M; MCDONALD, HI; DOS-SANTOS-SILVA, I; Stanway, S; SMEETH, L; BHASKARAN, K;

2020

EClinicalMedicine

Associations Between Breast Cancer Survivorship and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review.

CARREIRA, H; Williams, R; Müller, M; Harewood, R; Stanway, S; BHASKARAN, K;

2018

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Worldwide comparison of survival from childhood leukaemia for 1995-2009, by subtype, age, and sex (CONCORD-2): a population-based study of individual data for 89 828 children from 198 registries in 53 countries.

Bonaventure, A; Harewood, R; Stiller, CA; Gatta, G; Clavel, J; Stefan, DC; CARREIRA, H; Spika, D; Marcos-Gragera, R; Peris-Bonet, R; Piñeros, M; Sant, M; Kuehni, CE; Murphy, MF G; COLEMAN, MP; Allemani, C; CONCORD Working Group,;

2017

The Lancet Haematology

Global surveillance of cancer survival 1995-2009: analysis of individual data for 25,676,887 patients from 279 population-based registries in 67 countries (CONCORD-2).

ALLEMANI, C; Weir, HK; CARREIRA, H; HAREWOOD, R; SPIKA, D; Wang, X-S; Bannon, F; AHN, JV; Johnson, CJ; BONAVENTURE, A; Marcos-Gragera, R; Stiller, C; Azevedo e Silva, G; Chen, W-Q; Ogunbiyi, OJ; RACHET, B; Soeberg, MJ; You, H; Matsuda, T; Bielska-Lasota, M; Storm, H; Tucker, TC; COLEMAN, MP; CONCORD Working Group,;

2014

Lancet

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