Skip to main content Skip to navigation

[University home]

School of Medicine

Dr Isla Gemmell 

Photograph of Isla Gemmell

Lecturer

MPH
G64 Simon Building
University of Manchester
M13 9PL

 

Role

Lecturer in Biostatistics and Epidemiology on the MPH/MRes Programmes in Public Health and Primary Care

 

Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies

Society of Social Medicine

Royal Statistical Society

Research

I am the statistician for the Manchester Children's Growth and Vascular Health Study with the Division of Cardiovascular and Endocrine Sciences. The aim of this project is to investigate the effects of childrens growth patterns on markers for cardiovascular disease in health Brithish born South Asian and European origin infants. This has lead to my involment in a similar study looking at the effect of maternal malarial status on babies born in Nigeria 'The Idadan Childhood Growth and Vascular Health Study'. 

 

Methodological Knowledge


 

Teaching

I teach a two of the three core units on the online Masters in Public Health offered by the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences. I run the Fundamentals of Epidemiology course in the first semester and the Biostatistics course in the second semester. I also sit on the dissertations committee and I am involved with various other day to day isues to enable the successful running of this unique course.

 

Biography

I currently teach Fundamentals of Epidemiology and Biostatistics on the Masters in Public Health within the Faculty of Human and Medical Sciences.

I graduated from Aberdeen University with an honours degree in Statistics in 1991 and obtained my masters degree in Medical Statistics from Leicester University in 1992. I began working for the NHS Information and Statistics Division in Edinburgh before moving to Glasgow University to work on a research project on seasonal patterns of morbidity and mortality. During my time at Glasgow I completed my PhD titled ‘Seasonal patterns of mortality and morbidity in Scotland: modeling time series of counts’ and I was involved in other research projects on heart failure and housing and health.

I moved to the University of Manchester in 2001 and was based at the National Drug Evidence Centre and the Evidence for Population Health Unit before moving to the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre in October 2006. During this time I have been involved in research on prevalence of problem drug use in Greater Manchester, the population impact of interventions for heart disease and the influence of infant growth on risk factors for CHD as well as several small scale research projects. I now focus much of time on teaching on the MPH.

 

Qualifications

BSc Statistics (1st Class hons) University of Aberdeen 1991

MSc Medical Statistics University of Leicester 1992

PhD Statistics and Public Health University of Glasgow 2000

CStat Royal Statistical Society 2008

 

Collaborators and affiliated staff


 

Publications

2011

  • Ayoola O O, Gemmell I, Omotade O O, Adeyanju O A, Cruickshank J K, Clayton P E. (2011). Maternal Malaria, Birth Size and Blood Pressure in Nigerian Newborns: Insights into the Developmental Origins of Hypertension from the Ibadan Growth Cohort. PLoS ONE, 6(9), eScholarID:131039
  • Bansal N, Vyas A, Gemmell I, Clayton P, Charlton-Menys V, Oldroyd J, Pemberton P, Durrington P, Cruickshank JK. (2011). Early life determinants of serum adiponectin, HDL-cholesterol and insulins in infants and children of South Asian and White European origin; the Manchester Children’s Growth and Vascular Health study. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 96(8), 2567. eScholarID:131040
  • Gemmell I, Dunn G. (2011). The statistical pitfalls of the partially randomised preference design in non-blinded trials of psychological interventions. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 20(1), 1-9. eScholarID:131045 | DOI:10.1002/mpr.326
  • Gemmell I, Sandars J, Taylor S, Reed K. (2011). Teaching science and technology via online distance learning: the experience of teaching biostatistics on an online master of public health programme. Open Learning, 26(2), 165-171. eScholarID:131043
  • Patel L, Chandrashekhar SR, Gemmell I, O’Shea E, Jones J, Banerjee I, Amin R, Clayton P. (2011). Gender dichotomy in long term growth trajectories of children with 21-hydroxylase deficiency congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Hormone Research in Pediatrics, 75(3), 206-212. eScholarID:131044 | DOI:10.1159/000320700
  • Verma A, Torun P, Harris E, Edwards R, Gemmell I, Harrison RA, Buchan I, Davies L, Patterson L, Heller RF. (2011). Population Impact Analysis: a framework for assessing the population impact of a risk or intervention. Journal of Public Health, 33, eScholarID:131041

2009

  • Gemmell IM, Campbell S, Hann M, Sibbald BS. (2009). Assessing workload in general practice in England before and after the introduction of the pay-for-performance contract. J Adv Nurs, 65( 3), eScholarID:1d20520 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04902.x
  • Paisley A N, Izzard A S, Gemmell I, Cruickshank K, Trainer P J, Heagerty A M. (2009). Small vessel remodelling and impaired endothelial-dependent dilation in subcutaneous resistance arteries from patients with acromegaly. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 94, 1111-1117. eScholarID:131047 | DOI:10.1210/jc.2008-0948

2008

  • Bansal N, Ayoola OO, Gemmell IM, Vyas A, Koudsi A, Oldroyd J, Clayton PE, Cruickshank (K. (2008). Effects of early growth on blood pressure of infants of British European and South Asian origin at one year of age: the Manchester children's growth and vascular health study. J Hypertens, 26( 3), eScholarID:1d18403 | DOI:10.1097/HJH.0b013e3282f3168e
  • Heller RF, Verma A, Gemmell IM. (2008). Critical appraisal for public health: A new checklist. Public Health 2008, eScholarID:1d21647 | DOI:10.1016/j.puhe.2007.04.012
  • Lamden K, Gemmell IM. (2008). General practice factors and MMR vaccine uptake: structure, process and demography. J Public Health (Oxf), 30( 3), 251-7. eScholarID:1d18404 | DOI:10.1093/pubmed/fdn036
  • Sibbald BS, Pickard S, McLeod H, Reeves D, Mead NJ, Gemmell IM, Coast J, Roland M, Leese B. (2008). Moving specialist care into the community: an initial evaluation. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 13( 4), 233-9. eScholarID:1d18401 | DOI:10.1258/jhsrp.2008.008049

2007

  • AN Siriwardena, J Sandars, Gemmell IM, A Rashid. (2007). Teaching and learning evidence based medicine: cross sectional survey investigating knowledge and attitudes of teachers and learners in primary and secondary care. Education for Primary Care, 18, 45-57. eScholarID:1d15414
  • Gemmell IM, Verma A, Harrison R. (2007). Should we encourage over-the-counter statins? A population perspective for coronary heart disease prevention. Am J Cardiovasc Drugs, 7( 4), 299-302. eScholarID:1d31338
  • Harrison RA, Gemmell IM, Heller RF. (2007). The population impact of crime and neighbourhood on physical activity: An anlysis of 15,461 adults. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61, 34-39. eScholarID:1d14497

2006

  • Gemmell IM, Heller RF, Payne K, Edwards R, Roland M, Durrington PN. (2006). The potential population impact of the UK Government strategy for reducing the burden of coronary heart disease in England: comparing primary and secondary prevention strategies. Quality and Safety in Health Care, eScholarID:1d27484
  • Heller R, Gemmell IM, Patterson LE. (2006). Helping to prioritise interventions for depression and schizophrenia: use of Population Impact Measures. Clin Pract Epidemol Ment Health, 2, eScholarID:1d13439
  • Heller R, Gemmell IM, Wilson E, Fordham R, Smith R. (2006). Using economic analyses for local priority setting : the population cost-impact approach. Appl Health Econ Health Policy, 5( 1), 45-54. eScholarID:1d13437
  • Millar T, Gemmell I, Hay G, Heller R F, Donmall M. (2006). How well do trends in incidence of heroin use reflect hypothesised trends in prevalence of problem drug use in the North West of England? Addiction Research & Theory Journal, 14(5), eScholarID:80826
  • Moore S, Gemmell IM, Almond S, Buchan IE, Osman I, Glover A, Williams P, Carroll N, Rhodes J. (2006). Impact of specialist care on clinical outcomes for medical emergencies. Clinical Medicine, 6(3), 286-93. eScholarID:1d13553
  • R F Heller, Gemmell IM, R Edwards, I Awasthi, J Volmink. (2006). Prioritising between direct observation of therapy and case-finding interventions for Tuberculosis: Use of Population Impact Measures. BMC Infectious Diseases, 4, eScholarID:1d15415

2005

  • Verma A, Gemmell IM, DaviesL, HellerR.F. (2005). Using population impact measures in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for prioritisation of resources in Trafford. eScholarID:2d1954
  • Gemmell IM, Heller RF, McElduff P, Payne K, Butler G, Edwards R, Roland M, Durrington PN. (2005). The population impact of stricter adherence to recommendations for pharmacological and lifestyle interventions over one year in patients with coronary heart disease. Journal Of Epidemiology And Community Health, 59, 1041-1046. eScholarID:1d26698
  • Lyratzopoulos G, Havely D, Gemmell IM, Cook G. (2005). Factors influencing emergency medical readmission risk in a UK district general hospital: A prospective study. BMC Emerg Med, 5( 1), eScholarID:1d11703
  • Lyratzopoulos G, Havely D, Gemmell IM, Cook GA. (2005). The epidemiology of emergency medical readmission and effect of patient deprivation status on readmission risk. A prospective study. BMC Health Services Research, eScholarID:1d33894

2003

  • Khand A, Rankin A, Martin W, Taylor J, Gemmell IM, Cleland J. (2003). Carvedilol alone or in combination with digoxin for the management of atrial fibrillation in patients with heart failure? J Am Coll Cardiol, 42( 11), 1944-51. eScholarID:1d28775
  • Millar T, Gemmell IM, Donmall MC. The Dynamics of Drug Misuse: assessing changes in prevalence. 2003. eScholarID:19d184

2002

  • Mugglin A, Cressie N, Gemmell IM. (2002). Hierarchical statistical modelling of influenza epidemic dynamics in space and time. Stat Med, 21( 18), 2703-21. eScholarID:1d28776

2001

  • Gemmell IM. (2001). Indoor heating, house conditions, and health. J Epidemiol Community Health, 55( 12), 928-9. eScholarID:1d29376
  • Khand A, Gemmell IM, Rankin A, Cleland J. (2001). Clinical events leading to the progression of heart failure: insights from a national database of hospital discharges. Eur Heart J, 22( 2), 153-64. eScholarID:1d29219

2000

  • Gemmell IM, McLoone P, Boddy F, Dickinson G, Watt G. (2000). Seasonal variation in mortality in Scotland. Int J Epidemiol, 29( 2), 274-9. eScholarID:1d29455

1999

  • Cleland J, Gemmell IM, Khand A, Boddy A. (1999). Is the prognosis of heart failure improving? Eur J Heart Fail, 1( 3), 229-41. eScholarID:1d30987

1996

  • Sharp L, Black R, Muir C, Gemmell IM, Finlayson A, Harkness EF. (1996). Will the Scottish Cancer Target for the year 2000 be met? The use of cancer registration and death records to predict future cancer incidence and mortality in Scotland. Br J Cancer, 73( 9), 1115-21. eScholarID:1d29707

Top of page

| Skip to main content | Skip to navigation | Skip to Search |