Professor David Taylor-Robinson PhD MSc (Distinction) FFPH MRCPCH MPH (Distinction) MB ChB (Hons) BSc (Hons) DTM&H PGCert (Distinction)
Professor of Public Health and Policy, Honorary Consultant in Child Public Health Public Health, Policy & Systems
- +44 (0)151 794 5594
- Work email David.Taylor-Robinson@liverpool.ac.uk
Research
Addressing inequalities in child health
My research aims to improve child public health and reduce inequalities.
I welcome enquiries from potential PhD students. Current work focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of health inequalities in children and assessing the impact of interventions and policies to interrupt the generation of inequalities in health across the life course.
Areas of interest: Health inequalities. Child health. Social determinants of health. Natural experiments. Lifecourse epidemiology. Causal mediation analysis. Resource allocation. Recession/austerity and health. Research to inform policy. Child poverty. Cystic Fibrosis. Asthma. Cohort and longitudinal data analysis. Applied statistics. Evidence synthesis and dissemination. Systematic review methods. Soil-transmitted helminths. Qualitative methods. Health in low and middle income countries. Malaria treatment. Cardiovascular disease and food policy
Research Grants
Evaluating the health impact and cost-effectiveness of Ways-to-Wellbeing, a whole system approach to mitigate poverty over the life course
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK) (DOH/DHSC/NIHR)
April 2021 - March 2024
RESTORE - Research for Equitable SySTem RespOnse and REcovery
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK) (DOH/DHSC/NIHR)
May 2021 - April 2023
Addressing inequalities in ‘Children in Need’: A population linkage study to inform policy
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK) (DOH/DHSC/NIHR)
November 2020 - November 2022
Mental Health and Substance use in Children and Families Experiencing Adversity or OveRcoming Adverse ChiLdhood Experiences (ORACLE)
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK) (DOH/DHSC/NIHR)
February 2020 - January 2025
Children Growing up in Liverpool (C-GULL)
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
October 2020 - September 2025
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK) (DOH/DHSC/NIHR), LCCG - LIVERPOOL CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP (UK)
October 2019 - September 2024
From data to decisions: embedding a Real-world Intervention Causal Evaluation (RICE) tool in the decision-making process
THE HEALTH FOUNDATION (UK)
October 2019 - March 2023
Evaluating the impacts of universal policies on child health inequalities: how best can we exploit the predictive value of the integrated pre-school checks?
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK) (DOH/DHSC/NIHR)
February 2017 - March 2019
Liverpool and Lancaster Universities Collaboration for Public Health Research (LiLaC 2)
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK) (DOH/DHSC/NIHR)
April 2017 - March 2022
Tackling inequalities in child health: Harnessing data to improve lives.
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (MRC)
November 2017 - September 2022
From Policy to Inequality: Assessing the effects of policy interventions on inequalities in child health using natural experiments.
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
May 2015 - April 2016
Cystic Fibrosis Epidemiological Network (CF-EpiNet) – Harnessing Data to Improve Lives.
CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRUST (UK)
October 2015 - March 2021
Clinical Exploitation of Data Produced by the Pseudomonas International Genomics Consortium.
CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRUST (UK)
October 2013 - September 2016
The effect of socioeconomic status on outcomes people with cystic fibrosis: A longitudinal study.
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (MRC)
September 2009 - December 2014
IMPACT: developing and evaluating economic models for planning optimal cardiovascular disease prevention strategies.
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (MRC)
May 2010 - May 2014
Research Collaborations
Professor Simon Capewell
Internal
Professor Paul Garner, International Health Group
Internal
WHO Malaria Guidelines - Evidence
Professor Peter Diggle
External: Lancaster University
MRC Fellowship
Professor Rosalind Smyth
Internal
MRC Fellowship supervisor
Professor Margaret Whitehead
Internal
Professor Finn Diderichsen
External: University of Copenhagen
MRC Fellowship