PhD Student
Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Iona (BA, MSc) is in the final year of her Ph.D. at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health (WIPH), Centre for Public Health and Policy, at Queen Mary University of London. Her research is supervised by Prof. Stamatina Iliodromiti at the Women's Health Research Unit, Dr. Dominik Zenner & Dr. Fiona Samuels in the Global Public Health Research Unit. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Anthropology from Durham University in 2019 and a Masters (MSc) in Population Health from University College London in 2021.
She is a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) doctoral student. Her Ph.D. project explores the impact of COVID lockdowns on maternal and neonatal health outcomes and experiences using multiple methods. She has expertise in Systematic Reviews & Meta-analysis, with a publication currently under revision at Nature Human Behaviour (link: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3462049/v1). Furthermore, she has employed qualitative methods and analysis; she has conducted and analysed semi-structured interviews, both as part of her own Ph.D. research and as a part-time research associate on the UNDERSTAND research study (https://www.barc-research.org/understand). The qualitative findings from her Ph.D. research will be presented at the Society for Sociological Medicine and British Sociological Association conferences in September. The findings of the UNDERSTAND study will be presented at the Fetal Medicine Foundation conference in Lisbon at the end of June. Iona also has experience organising and analysing routinely collected health data, such analysis is included in the abstract and poster presented at the SMFM here in Rome.
Her research interests include mixed-methods research; intervention development, implementation, and realist evaluation; health inequalities; maternal and reproductive & sexual health and well-being.