Dr Rachael Wood
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
- Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre
- Child Life & Health
- Centre for Population Health Sciences
Contact details
- Email: Rachael.Wood@ed.ac.uk
Background
Dr Wood is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine in the NHS National Services Scotland, Information Services Division; a Senior Clinical Research Fellow within the Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre based across the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Child Life and Health within the University of Edinburgh; and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer within the University of Edinburgh Centre for Population Health Sciences.
Within the NHS Information Services Division, Dr Wood is responsible for national data on children’s health and director of the national congenital anomaly register (CARDRISS). Her role involves developing national data, overseeing national statistics publications, providing information to support health policy and service development and evaluation, and supporting the use of ISD data for research purposes.
Within the University, Dr Wood conducts research on child public health, with a particular focus on child development and neurodevelopmental conditions affecting children. Her research often involves the use of routinely available data.
Prior to her current roles, Dr Wood held a CSO Clinical Academic Training Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh from 2007 to 2011. During her fellowship she undertook a PhD examining changes made to Scotland’s child health programme in 2005. Dr Wood graduated in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1993.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of Edinburgh
Bachelor of Science, University of Edinburgh
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Edinburgh.Changing child health surveillance in Scotland: an exploration of the impact on preventive health care of pre-school children
Master of Public Health, University of Glasgow
Membership of the Faculty of Public Health, MFPH
Diploma in Child Health, DCH
Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, DTM&H
Responsibilities & affiliations
Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health
Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Research summary
Dr Wood’s research interests focus on child public health, in particular on protecting and promoting child development and on improving the outcomes of children with neurodevelopmental conditions.
Research activities
- Faculty of Public Health Examination types › External Examiner or Assessor
- The Chief Scientist Office Scotland (External organisation) Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee
- Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (External organisation) to Membership types › Membership of committee
- British Association for Child and Adolescent Public Health (External organisation) to Membership types › Membership of committee
- Faculty of Public Health (External organisation) to Membership types › Membership of committee
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Monitoring severe acute maternal morbidity across Europe: a feasibility study
In:
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ppe.12557
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Case ascertainment in active paediatric surveillance systems: a report from the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit Ascertainment Group
In:
Archives of Disease in Childhood, pp. archdischild-2019-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-317401
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Growing Up in Scotland: changes in language ability over the primary school years
Book/Report › Other report (Published) -
The impact of maternal smoking on early childhood health: a retrospective cohort linked dataset analysis of 697,003 children born in Scotland 1997-2009
In:
BMJ Open
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018- 023213).
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Factors associated with stillbirth in women with diabetes
In:
Diabetologia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-019-4943-9
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)