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Staff Profile

Dr Viviana Albani

Senior Research Associate

  • Telephone: +44 (0)191 208 2283
  • Address: Population Health Sciences Institute
    Faculty of Medical Sciences
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    Ridley 1
    Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne
    NE1 4LAP United Kingdom
Background

Viviana is a Research Associate in the Public Health and Health Inequalities Theme of the Population Health Sciences Institute. She obtained her PhD from Reading University. Her research topic was on factors influencing children's and adolescents fruit and vegetable consumption. Previously she completed an MSc in Food Economics and Marketing also from Reading University. Her undergraduate degree was in Economics. 

Her main area of work is in the application of quantitative methods to describe, explain and reduce health inequalities, with a particular interest in vulnerable population groups including children and the very old. She is also interested in the use of biomarkers in social research and the analysis of large health and lifestyle datasets.

Research

Senior Research Associate. Evaluating the impact of national and local action aimed at levelling up and pandemic recovery - Phase 1. WP3 Co-lead. School for Primary Care Research, National Institute for Health and Care Research. Grant (£387,298)

Research Associate. Does place matter? An examination of geographical inequalities in COVID-19 in England. The Health Foundation - COVID-19 Research Programme. Grant 2211473 (£142,290).

Research Associate. Evaluating the impact of Supplementary Planning Documents on Health Inequalities in the North East of England. NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North East North Cumbria Open Funding Competition 2020. Grant OFC20-01 (£90,755). Co-applicant.

Research Associate. Reducing malnutrition and frailty in older people in primary care: understanding the impact of oral health in later life. School for Primary Care Research, National Institute for Health Research. Grant SPCR 402 (£39,260).

Research Associate. Obesity and Alcohol use: The FOrwaRD study - Exploring the relationship between alcohol intake and BMI in young adults. The Public Health Research Consortium, Department of Health & Social Care, Policy Research Programme. Grant PHPEHF50/18 (£174,913.09).

Research Associate. Understanding the link between alcohol excises and the price of alcoholic drinks in UK supermarkets using scanner data – Using large supermaket data on alcohol sales to explore how prices respond to changes in excise. Alcohol Research UK Grant 2017 SG/1080 (£7,900). Co-applicant.

Research Associate. Diamond-Lewy: Improving the diagnosis and management of neurodegenerative dementia of Lewy body type in the NHS – Micro-costing and analysis of healthcare costs of different pathways of care. National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research Grant DTC-RP-PG-0311-12001.

Research Associate. SIPS JR-HIGH – A multi-centre individual-randomized controlled trial of screening and brief alcohol intervention to prevent risky drinking in young people aged 14-15 in a high school setting. National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research Grant 13/117/02 (£866,211.60).

Research Associate. SHAMISEN: Nuclear emergency situations. Improvement of Medical and Health surveillance – Economic implications of responses to a radiation accident. Open Project for European Radiation Resarch Area (OPERRA)

Research Associate. “Liaison Psychiatry Service Evaluation”. Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Group, Institute of Health and Society. Newcasatle University (UK).

Research Associate."The Economic Burden of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis in the UK". Institute of Health and Society. Â鶹´«Ã½ (UK).

Research Associate. "Biomarkers of dairy intake". Institute of Health and Society. Â鶹´«Ã½ (UK).

Senior Research Assistant. RCUK-funded project: “The role of community-based organisations in energy saving”. University of Southampton (UK).

Postgraduate student (PhD). Food Standards Agency studentship: "Determinants of children's fruit and vegetable consumption". School of Food Economics and Marketing, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading (UK)

Publications

  • Articles

    • Brown H, Albani V, Munford L, Sutton M, McHardy F, Silverman E, Richiardi M, Pearce A, Heppenstall A, Meier P, Thomson R, Katikireddi S. . Social Sciences and Humanities Open 2024, 9, 100847.
    • Fong M, Scott S, Albani V, Brown H. . Nutrients 2023, 15(16), 3636.
    • McNamara C, Kotzias V, Bambra C, Labonté R, Stuckler D. . International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services 2023, 53(3), 311-322.
    • Coulton S, Giles EL, Mcgeechan GJ, Deluca P, Drummond C, Howel D, Kaner E, McColl E, McGovern R, Scott S, Sumnall H, Vale L, Albani V, Boniface S, Ferguson J, Gilvarry E, Hendrie N, Howe N, Ramsay A, Newbury-Birch D. . Alcohol and Alcoholism 2022, 57(2), 261-269.
    • Brown H, Mills S, Albani V. . BMC Public Health 2022, 22(1), 590.
    • Brown H, Xiang H, Albani V, Goffe L, Akhter N, Lake A, Sorrell S, Gibson E, Wildman J. . Social Science and Medicine 2022, 306, 115126.
    • Albani V, Brown H, Vera-Toscano E, Kingston A, Eikemo TA, Bambra C. . Social Science and Medicine 2022, 311, 115316.
    • Welsh C, Albani V, Matthews F, Bambra C. . BMJ Open 2022, 12(8), e058658.
    • Albani V, Welsh C, Brown H, Matthews F, Bambra C. . Social Science and Medicine 2022, 311, 115319.
    • Brown H, Kirkman S, Albani V, Goffe L, Akhter N, Hollingsworth B, von Hinke S, Lake A. . Health and Place 2021, 70, 102600.
    • Welsh C, Albani V, Matthews F, Bambra C. . medRxiv 2021. Submitted.
    • McNamara CL, Toch-Marquardt M, Albani V, Eikemo TA, Bambra C. . European Journal of Public Health 2021, 31(1), 181-185.
    • Robinson N, McKay JA, Pearce MS, Albani V, Wright CM, Adamson AJ, Brown H. . Journal of Pediatrics 2021, 228, 138-146.e5.
    • Welsh C, Albani V, Matthews F, Bambra C. Inequalities in the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic: an ecological study of inequalities in mortality in the first wave and the effects of the first national lockdown in England. BMJ Open 2022, 12(8).
    • Simpson J, Albani V, Bell Z, Bambra C, Brown H. . Social Science & Medicine 2021, 272, 113717.
    • Rice S, Albani V, Minos D, Fattakhova G, Mells GF, Carbone M, Flack S, Varvaropoulou N, Badrock J, Spicer A, Sandford RN, Shirley MDF, Coughlan D, Hirschfield G, Taylor-Robinson SD, Vale L, Jones DEJ. . Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2021, 19(4), 768-776.e10.
    • Bambra C, Albani V, Franklin P. . Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2021, 49(1), 17-26.
    • Robinson N, Brown H, Antoun E, Godfrey KM, Hanson MA, Lilycrop KA, Crozier SR, Murray R, Pearce MS, Relton CL, Albani V, McKay JA. . Clinical Epigenetics 2021, 13, 8.
    • Albani V, Nishio K, Ito T, Kotronia E, Moynihan P, Robinson L, Hanratty B, Kingston A, Abe Y, Takayama M, Iinuma T, Arai Y, Ramsay SE. . BMC Geriatrics 2021, 21, 187.
    • Albani V, Vale LD, Pearce M, Ostroumova E, Liutsko L. . Environment International 2021, 156, 106571.
    • Simpson J, Brown H, Albani V, Ball Z, Bambra C. . BMJ Open 2020, 10(6), e035993.
    • Torlinska J, Albani V, Brown H. . Journal of Migration and Health 2020, 1-2, 100030.
    • Giles EL, McGeechan GJ, Coulton S, Deluca P, Drummond C, Howel D, Kaner E, McColl E, McGovern R, Scott S, Stamp E, Sumnall H, Todd L, Vale L, Albani V, Boniface S, Frankham J, Ferguson J, Gilvarry E, Hendrie N, Howe N, Mossop H, Ramsay A, Stanley G, Newbury-Birch D. . Public Health Research 2019, 7(9).
    • Albani V, Butler LT, Traill WB, Kennedy OB. . Appetite 2018, 120, 398-408.
    • Albani V, Bradley J, Wrieden WL, Scott S, Muir C, Power C, Fitzgerald N, Stead M, Kaner E, Adamson AJ. . Nutrients 2018, 10(10), 1477.
    • Albani V, Celis-Morales C, O'Donovan CB, Walsh MC, Woolhead C, Forster H, Fallaize R, Macready AL, Marsaux CFM, Navas-Carretero S, San-Cristobal R, Kolossa S, Mavrogianni C, Lambrinou CP, Moschonis G, Godlewska M, Surwillo A, Traczyk I, Gundersen TE, Drevon CA, Daniel H, Manios Y, Martinez JA, Saris WHM, Lovegrove JA, Gibney MJ, Gibney ER, Mathers JC, Adamson AJ, Brennan L. . Molecular Nutrition & Food Research 2017, 61(10), 1700142.
    • Chambers S, Barton KL, Albani V, Anderson AS, Wrieden WL. . Public Health Nutrition 2017, 20(14), 2459-2477.
    • Albani V, Butler LT, Traill WB, Kennedy OB. . British Journal of Nutrition 2017, 117, 759-765.
    • Giles EL, Coulton S, Deluca P, Drummond C, Howel D, Kaner E, McColl E, McGovern R, Scott S, Stamp E, Sumnall H, Tate L, Todd L, Vale L, Albani V, Boniface S, Ferguson J, Frankham J, Gilvarry E, Hendrie N, Howe N, McGeechan GJ, Stanley G, Newbury-Birch D. . BMJ Open 2016, 6(12), e012474.
    • Albani V, Celis-Morales C, Marsaux CFM, Forster H, O'Donovan CB, Woolhead C, Macready AL, Fallaize R, Navas-Carretero S, San-Cristobal R, Kolossa S, Mavrogianni C, Lambrinou CP, Moschonis G, Godlewska M, Surwillo A, Gundersen TE, Kaland SE, Manios Y, Traczyk I, Drevon CA, Gibney ER, Walsh MC, Martinez JA, Saris WHM, Daniel H, Lovegrove JA, Gibney MJ, Adamson AJ, Mathers JC, Brennan L. . Molecular Nutrition & Food Research 2016, 60(4), 834-845.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

    • Mills S, Albani V, Brown H. . In: UK Public Health Sciences. 2022, Elsevier.

  • Reports

    • Bambra C, Smith KE, Nwaru C, Bennett N, Albani V, Kingston A, Todd A, Matthews F. . Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne: Health Equity North and The Health Foundation, 2023.
    • Albani V, Franklin P, Bambra C. . European Commission, 2021.

  • Review

    • Fong M, Scott S, Albani V, Adamson A, Kaner E. . Nutrients 2021, 13(9), 2927.