Mr Matthias Pierce
Research Associate
- Email: matthias.pierce@manchester.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 8366
National Drug Evidence Centre (NDEC)
Health Sciences Research Group
School of Community Based Medicine
University of Manchester
4th Floor (C block)
Ellen Wilkinson Building
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
Role
Working on an MRC funded study into the effectiveness of treatment in relation to crime and mortality. Also studying a part-time PhD entitled: "The effect of drug misuse treatment on crime and mortality for problem drug users in the UK - Causal modelling from a large linked dataset"
Research
Current interests include: applications of longitudinal and causal modelling techniques to large datasets and the epidemiology of addiction.
Biography
After Leaving LSHTM in 2008, I worked for a year on a large population-based study into perinatal health in East London for City University, before joining the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford, where I worked mostly with data from the UK Obstetrics Surveillance System.
Qualifications
MSc Medical Statistics - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
BSc Physics and Philosophy - King's College London
Collaborators and affiliated staff
Dr. Tim Millar, Professor Graham Dunn (Manchester) and Professor Shelia Bird (Cambridge).
Publications
2011
- Pierce M, Kurinczuk JJ, Spark P, Brocklehurst P, Knight M. (2011). Perinatal outcomes after maternal 2009/H1N1 infection: national cohort study. British Medical Journal, 342:d3214. eScholarID:131561