Dr Melissa Whitrow

Biography/ Background

2008-current  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 0.6 FTE. Lifecourse and Intergenerational Health Research Group, Disciplines of Public Health and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Adelaide.  Deputy Director July 2008-July 2009 (1.0 FTE). Career break (maternity leave) August 2009-March 2010.

 

2005-2008 Career Development Fellow, Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Medical Research Council, Glasgow, UK.

2002-2005 Associate Lecturer, Spencer Gulf Rural Health School, University of Adelaide/University of South Australia.

2004 PhD (Epidemiology), University of Adelaide.

1998 BSc (Honours in Physiology), University of Adelaide.

 

Qualifications

BSc (Hons), PhD

Research Interests

Social determinants of health

Life-course epidemiology

Ethnicity and health

Respiratory health in children and adolescents

Growth in children and adolescents

Publications

Giles LC, Davies MJ, Whitrow MJ, Rumbold AR, Lynch JW, Sawyer MG, Moore VM.  Structured regression analyses of life course processes: An example exploring how maternal depression in early childhood affects children's subsequent internalizing behaviour. Annals of Epidemiology, in press.

 

Giles L, Moore VM, Whitrow M, Warin M, Davies M.  Maternal depressive symptoms and childcare during toddlerhood relate to child behavior at age 5½ years. Pediatrics, in press.

 

Whitrow M, Harding S, Maynard MJ.  The influence of parental smoking and family type on saliva cotinine in UK ethnic minority children: a cross sectional study. BMC Public Health 2010;10:262.

 

Harding S, Whitrow M, Lenguerrand E, Maynard MJ, Teyhan A, Cruickshank K, Der G.  Emergence of ethnic differences in blood pressure in adolescence: The Determinants of Adolescent Social well-being and Health study. Hypertension 2010;55:1063.

 

Whitrow M, Harding S.  Asthma in Black African, Black Caribbean and South Asian adolescents in the MRC DASH study: a cross sectional analysis. BMC Pediatrics 2010; 10:18.

 

Whitrow M, Moore VM, Rumbold AR, Davies MJ.  Effect of supplemental folic acid in pregnancy on childhood asthma: a prospective birth cohort study.  American Journal of Epidemiology 2009; 170:1486-93.  This paper was listed in the Faculty of 1000 Biology in Nov 2009.

 

Whitrow M, Harding S.  Ethnic differences in adolescent lung function: anthropometric, socioeconomic and psychosocial factors. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2008;177:1262-1267.

 

Harding S, Whitrow M, Maynard MJ, Teyhan A.  Cohort Profile: The DASH (Determinants of Adolescent Social well-being and Health) Study, an ethnically diverse cohort. International Journal of Epidemiology 2007;36:512-17.

 

Newbury JW, Shannon S, Ryan V, Whitrow M.  Development of ‘rural week’ for medical students: impact and quality report.  Rural and Remote Health 2005;5(3):432.

 

 Whitrow M, McKenzie W.  A database to record, track and report health student rural placements.  Rural and Remote Health 2005;5(2):334.

 

Smith BJ, Whitrow M, Pilotto LS, Pisaniello DL, Esterman A, Selim P.  A Study of Associations between Cigarette Smoking, Nearby Industry and High Lung Cancer Mortality in North West Adelaide. Environmental Health 2005;5(1):11.

 

Pisaniello DP, Whitrow M, Smith BJ, Pilotto LS.  Ambient Air Concentrations of Lung Carcinogens and Fine Particles in North West Suburban Adelaide: Implications for Public Health. Environmental Health 2005;4(3):40 

 

Whitrow M, Smith BJ, Pilotto LS, Pisaniello DP, Nitschke M.  Environmental exposure to carcinogens causing lung cancer: Epidemiological evidence from the medical literature.  Respirology 2003;8(4):513-21.

 

Professional Associations

Member of the Australasian Epidemiology Association

Member of the Ethnicity and Health journal editorial board (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/13557858.html)

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 12 Apr 2011