Professor Michael Dewey
Emeritus Professor of Statistical Epidemiology
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Biography
Michael joined KCL in 2003 and previously held posts at the Universities of Nottingham, Liverpool and Kent. His primary research and teaching interests are the application of modern statistical methods to problems of major international public health importance. He moved to Emeritus status in 2014. His doctorate is from the University of Liverpool and his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Hull.
Expertise and Public Engagement
Michael currently undertakes statistical reviewing for major health journals. He serves as an expert for the European Commission working on evaluations of projects for Horizon 2020. He also contributes to the open source software community by providing two packages on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN), maintaining an annotated Task View dedicated to meta-analysis on CRAN, and acting as a moderator for the R mailing list on meta-analysis. He also sits on a number of trial steering committees and data and ethics monitoring committees.
Research
Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH)
The Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH) aims to address inequities by closing the care gap, and to reduce human rights abuses experienced by people living with mental, neurological and substance use conditions, particularly in low resource settings with a view to contributing to a world where all people living with mental, neurological and substance use disorders can live a life of meaning and dignity.
Social Epidemiology Research Group
The Social Epidemiology Research Group primarily focuses on how social contexts, interactions and experiences shape the occurrence, outcome, and management of mental health problems. Our goal is to provide evidence on the relationships between all aspects of society and mental health problems that can inform the development of interventions, mental health services, public health programmes, and social policies in order to prevent the onset and improve outcomes of mental health problems.
Social and Economic Predictors of the Severe Mental Disorders: The SEP-MD Data Linkage Study
Linking health records and census data to advance understanding of mortality, in-patient admissions and worklessness among people with severe mental illness.
Project status: Ongoing
Research
Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH)
The Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH) aims to address inequities by closing the care gap, and to reduce human rights abuses experienced by people living with mental, neurological and substance use conditions, particularly in low resource settings with a view to contributing to a world where all people living with mental, neurological and substance use disorders can live a life of meaning and dignity.
Social Epidemiology Research Group
The Social Epidemiology Research Group primarily focuses on how social contexts, interactions and experiences shape the occurrence, outcome, and management of mental health problems. Our goal is to provide evidence on the relationships between all aspects of society and mental health problems that can inform the development of interventions, mental health services, public health programmes, and social policies in order to prevent the onset and improve outcomes of mental health problems.
Social and Economic Predictors of the Severe Mental Disorders: The SEP-MD Data Linkage Study
Linking health records and census data to advance understanding of mortality, in-patient admissions and worklessness among people with severe mental illness.
Project status: Ongoing