Duncan Gillespie PhD

Research Fellow

Health Economics and Decision Science
School of Health and Related Research
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 30 Regent Street
Sheffield, S1 4DA

Office: Ground floor open plan (G033)

Tel: +44 (0)114 22 24310
Twitter: @GillespieDuncan

E-mail: duncan.gillespie@sheffield.ac.uk

ORCiD: 0000-0003-3450-5747

Career

2018 - Research Fellow, Health Economics & Decision Science, University of Sheffield, UK.

2014 - Research Associate, Health Economics & Decision Science, University of Sheffield, UK.

2013 - 2014 Research Associate, Dept. Public Health & Policy, University of Liverpool, UK.

2011 - 2013 Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. Biology, Stanford University, USA.

2006 - 2010 PhD Evolutionary Demography of Ageing, Dept. Animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

Interim time spent assisting biological research projects, including studying house sparrows on Lundy Island and Red Colobus monkeys on Zanzibar.

2001 - 2004 Bsc (Hons), Biological Sciences (Zoology), University of Edinburgh, UK.

Research

I aim to support decision-making to improve population health and reduce inequalities. I consider myself a demographer with an interest in ageing, public health modelling, epidemiology, inequality, health economics, population dynamics, and R statistics. I am particularly interested in methods to make research more reproducible and models better documented and more accessible to other researchers. I'm also interested in understanding the research-policy interface - see my interview with the Rt Hon Sir Kevin Barron MP.

Check out the Sheffield user group for the R statistical software

Main elements of my current research
Forecasting the potential effects of interventions (including policy) on multiple health-related behaviours	With the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group and the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, I have extended the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model to include tobacco. This allows investigation of the synergistic effects of tobacco and alcohol interventions on inequality, health and economic outcomes. We are continuing this work in a new NIHR funded project: Integrated evidence synthesis for joint appraisal of tobacco and alcohol tax interventions for harm reduction in the UK
Retrospective analysis of the health and economic effects of interventions	I am collaborating on a project funded by the Department of Health to estimate the effects of the last decade of tobacco control interventions. This involves translating statistically derived effects of interventions on smoking rates into estimates of their impact on health and economic outcomes.
Methods development	I am leading a project funded by Alcohol Research UK to estimate the cost that alcohol use imposes on primary care through the extra practitioner time in consultations and prescriptions that result from alcohol-related ill health. I am also developing analyses for cause-specific death and hospital use data.

Professional roles

My interest in global health led me to join ScHARR's internationalisation committee that aims to support efforts to make our research have a greater global impact. I have also recently become the deputy information governance lead for the section of Health Economics & Decision Science.

Key Publications

Extended List of Publications

The White Rose open access repository

My Google Scholar profile

Journal articles

Angus C, Brown J, Beard E, Gillespie D, Buykx P, Kaner E, Michie S & Meier P (2019) Socioeconomic inequalities in the delivery of Brief Interventions for smoking and excessive drinking: Findings from a cross-sectional household survey in England. BMJ Open, 9(4). View this article in WRRO
Sadler S, Angus C, Gavens L, Gillespie D, Holmes J, Hamilton J, Brennan A & Meier P (2017) Understanding the alcohol harm paradox: an analysis of sex- and condition-specific hospital admissions by socioeconomic group for alcohol-associated conditions in England.. Addiction, 112(5), 808-817. View this article in WRRO
Holmes J, Brown J, West R, Beard E, Brennan A, Drummond C, Gillespie D, Hickman M, Holmes J, Kaner E & Michie S (2016) Are recent attempts to quit smoking associated with reduced drinking in England? A cross-sectional population survey. BMC Public Health, 16:535. View this article in WRRO
Allen K, Gillespie DOS, Guzman-Castillo M, Diggle PJ, Capewell S & O'Flaherty M (2016) Future trends and inequalities in premature coronary deaths in England: Modelling study. International Journal of Cardiology, 203, 290-297.
McGill R, Anwar E, Orton L, Bromley H, Lloyd-Williams F, O’Flaherty M, Taylor-Robinson D, Guzman-Castillo M, Gillespie D, Moreira P , Allen K et al (2015) Are interventions to promote healthy eating equally effective for all? Systematic review of socioeconomic inequalities in impact. BMC Public Health, 15(1).
Gillespie DOS, Allen K, Guzman-Castillo M, Bandosz P, Moreira P, McGill R, Anwar E, Lloyd-Williams F, Bromley H, Diggle PJ , Capewell S et al (2015) The health equity and effectiveness of policy options to reduce dietary salt intake in England: Policy forecast. PLoS ONE, 10(7). View this article in WRRO
Bandosz P, O'Flaherty M, Rutkowski M, Kypridemos C, Guzman-Castillo M, Gillespie DOS, Solnica B, Pencina MJ, Wyrzykowski B, Capewell S & Zdrojewski T (2015) A victory for statins or a defeat for diet policies? Cholesterol falls in Poland in the past decade: A modeling study. International Journal of Cardiology, 185, 313-319.
Gillespie DOS, Trotter MV & Tuljapurkar SD (2014) Divergence in Age Patterns of Mortality Change Drives International Divergence in Lifespan Inequality. Demography, 51(3), 1003-1017.
Guzman Castillo M, Gillespie DOS, Allen K, Bandosz P, Schmid V, Capewell S & O’Flaherty M () Future Declines of Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in England and Wales Could Counter the Burden of Population Ageing. PLoS ONE, 9(6), e99482-e99482.
Langley T, Gillespie D, Lewis S, Eminson K, Brennan A, Docherty G & Young B () Developing logic models to inform public health policy outcome evaluation: an example from tobacco control. Journal of Public Health.