Ms Emily Humphreys
Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Epidemiology & Population Health
United Kingdom
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 °®ÍþÄÌapp of Economics.
My PhD supervisors are Veronique Filippi and Stephen O'Neill at LSHTM, and Emilie Courtin at the °®ÍþÄÌapp of Economics.
Research Area
Social epidemiology
Impact evaluation
Evaluation
Social policy
Disease and Health Conditions
Mental health
Country
United Kingdom
Selected Publications
2025
Public health in practice
2025
SSM - population health
2024
SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
2024
BMJ global health
2023
The Lancet. Global health
2020
Preventive Medicine
2016
The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma
2014
Clinical Pulmonary Medicine