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Dr Girvan Burnside BSc, MSc, PhD

Reader in Biostatistics Health Data Science

Research

Randomised controlled trials


Statistical modelling

Analysis of clustered data

Research Grants

Elucidating the mechaNism of action of behavioural changes on Child tOoth decay in the Randomised controlled CHOICE trial – a role for salivary lactic Acid? (ENCOURAGE)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

January 2023 - December 2025

Feasibility study for a proposed trial of an evidence-based low intensity psychosocial intervention delivered by lay therapists for asylum seekers and refugees(PROSPER).

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

September 2018 - June 2021

Treating common mental disorders in Congolese refugees in Uganda and Rwanda: Culturally adapting and evaluating the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of community-based sociotherapy

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

September 2018 - March 2022

Personalising renal function monitoring and interventions in people living with heart failure: RENAL-HF (RENAL-HF)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

February 2022 - January 2027

COVID-19 Neurological Disease: a Global Meta-Analysis and Prospective Case Control Study in Brazil, India and Malawi. (COVID-Neuro)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

October 2020 - March 2023

An intervention using mental health support workers as link workers to improve dental visiting in people with severe mental illness: A feasibility study.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

April 2022 - March 2024

CHOICE: Changing Habits tO Prevent ChIld CariEs: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Family- Focused Therapeutic Conversation Delivered by Dental Nurses in Primary Care

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

December 2021 - May 2026

NAMASTE - A cluster randomised trial of the Namaste care intervention to improve the quality of life for people with advanced dementia living in long term nursing care facilities

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

December 2016 - March 2019

InteRventions to rEduce inequaliTies in the Uptake of Routine deNtal care (RETURN)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK), LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (UK)

May 2018 - April 2025

A prospective case-control study to examine the role of Zika virus in Guillain-Barre syndrome in Brazil.

DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY (BEIS) (UK)

January 2017 - September 2017

CASE Top-up - Mr A Cutts

GLAXOSMITHKLINE (UK)

November 2014 - April 2022

Multi-centre randomised control trial comparing the clinical and cost effectiveness of trans-foraminal epidural steroid injection to surgical microdiscectomy for the treatment of chronic radicular pain secondary to prolapsed intervertebral disc herniation. (NErve Rootblock VErsus Surgery; NERVES)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

June 2014 - December 2020

Comparison of a new with standard child and family primary care service to reduce the re-occurrence of childhood dental caries (DENTALRECUR Trial)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

April 2014 - December 2018

A comparison of community based preventative services to improve child dental health

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

April 2010 - April 2013

The cost and value of different forms of information on oral health status and risk given to patients following a check-up in dental practice.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

September 2014 - October 2019

Late social care needs of people who have had encephalitis

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

January 2021 - August 2024

Statistical issues in modelling multilevel categorical data, with applications in oral health (Industrial CASE)

GLAXOSMITHKLINE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT LIMITED (UK)

November 2014 - April 2018