Staff Profile
Dr Fiona Pearson
Principal Research Associate
- Email: fiona.pearson2@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: Evidence Synthesis Group,
Population Health Sciences Institute,
Faculty of Medical Sciences,
Newcastle University,
Baddiley Clark Building,
Newcastle Upon Tyne.
NE2 4HH
Background
Qualifications
PhD in Epidemiology (MRC studentship), 2013
MRes in Medical and Molecular Biosciences (Epidemiology), 2008
BSc (hons) Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 2007
Research
Interests
Evidence synthesis
Epidemiology of chronic diseases
Use of routine health data and large national and secondary datasets as tools to investigate the causes and consequences of major contemporary public health problems
Teaching
Workshop facilitation
Lecturing
Masters project supervision
PhD supervision
Publications
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Articles
- Searle B, Barker RO, Stow D, Spiers GF, Pearson F, Hanratty B. Which interventions are effective at decreasing or increasing emergency department attendances or hospital admissions from long-term care facilities? A systematic review. BMJ Open 2023, 13(2), e064914.
- Thornton C, Lanyi K, Wilkins G, Potter R, Hunter E, Kolehmainen N, Pearson F. Scoping the Priorities and Concerns of Parents: An Infodemiology Study of Posts on Mumsnet and Reddit. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2023, 25, e47849.
- Kunonga TP, Kenny RPW, Astin M, Bryant A, Kontogiannis V, Coughlan D, Richmond C, Eastaugh CH, Beyer FR, Pearson F, Craig D, Lovat P, Vale L, Ellis R. Predictive accuracy of risk prediction models for recurrence, metastasis and survival for early-stage cutaneous melanoma: a systematic review. BMJ Open 2023, 13(9), e073306.
- Johnson EE, Lally JE, Farnworth A, Pearson F. Involving people with lived experience when developing a proposal for Health Technology Assessment Research of non-surgical treatments for pelvic organ pProlapse: Process and Reflections. Health Expectations 2023, Epub ahead of print.
- Johnson EE, O'Connor N, Hilton P, Pearson F, Goh J, Vale L. Interventions for treating obstetric fistula: An evidence gap map. PLOS Global Public Health 2023, 3(1), e0001481.
- Merrick H, Driver H, Main C, Kenny RPW, Richmond C, Allard A, Bola K, Morris C, Parr JR, Pearson F, Pennington L. Impacts of health care service changes implemented due to COVID-19 on children and young people with long-term disability: A mapping review. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 2023, Epub ahead of print.
- Coughlan D, Arisa O, Thomson K, Yu G, Pearson F, Kernohan A, Garcia Gonzalez-Moral S, Wallace S, Rice S. Disease Severity Modifier in the NICE Single Technology Appraisal of Trastuzumab Deruxtecan: External Assessment Group Perspective. PharmacoEconomics 2023, Epub ahead of print.
- O'Connor N, Thomson KH, Gill S, Jackson S, Wallace SA, Pearson F. A rapid priority setting exercise combining existing, emergent evidence with stakeholder knowledge identified broad topic uncertainties. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2023, 154, P178-187.
- Kenny RPW, Millar EB, Adesanya A, Richmond C, Beyer F, Calderon C, Rankin J, Toledano M, Feychting M, Pearce MS, Craig D, Pearson F. The effects of radiofrequency exposure on male fertility and adverse reproductive outcomes: A protocol for two systematic reviews of human observational studies with meta-analysis. Environment International 2022, 158, 106968.
- Thomson KH, O'Connor N, Dangova KT, Gill S, Jackson S, Bliss DZ, Wallace SA, Pearson F. Rapid priority setting exercise on faecal incontinence for Cochrane Incontinence. BMJ Open Gastroenterology 2022, 9, e000847.
- Tanner L, Kenny R, Still M, Ling J, Pearson F, Thompson K, Bhardwaj-Gosling R. NHS Health Check programme: a rapid review update. BMJ Open 2022, 12(2), e052832.
- Thomson KH, Dangova K, Bliss DZ, Wallace S, O'Connor N, Richter HE, Pearson F. Future developments and new technologies in the field of faecal incontinence: scanning the horizon using late-stage clinical trial registrations. BMJ Innovations 2022, 8(4), 278-284.
- Tanner L, Thomson K, Drake MJ, Ervin CF, Bower WF, Pearson F. Behavioural interventions for nocturia in adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020, 2020(9), CD013746.
- Pearson F, Mann KD, Rees A, Davis A, Pearce MS. The Effect of Childhood Infection on Hearing Function at Age 61 to 63 Years in the Newcastle Thousand Families Study. Ear and Hearing 2015, 36(2), 185-190.
- Critchley J, Young F, Orton L, Garner P. Corticosteroids for prevention of mortality in people with tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2013, 13(3), 223-237.
- Pearson F, Mann KD, Nedellec R, Rees A, Pearce MS. Childhood infections, but not early life growth, influence hearing in the Newcastle thousand families birth cohort at age 14 years. BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders 2013, 13, 9.
- Young F, Wotton CJ, Critchley JA, Unwin NC, Goldacre MJ. Increased risk of tuberculosis disease in people with diabetes mellitus: record-linkage study in a UK population. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2010, 66(6), 519-523.
- Young F, Capewell S, Ford ES, Critchley JA. Coronary Mortality Declines in the US Between 1980 and 2000 Quantifying the Contributions from Primary and Secondary Prevention. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2010, 39(3), 228-234.
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Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)
- Johnson E, O'Connor N, Hilton P, Pearson F, Goh J, Vale L. Novel methods used when conducting an evidence gap map surrounding interventions for treating obstetric fistula. In: 27th Cochrane Colloquium. 2023, London: Cochrane.
- O'Connor N, Johnson EE, Wallace SA, Vale L, Pearson F. Nocturnal enuresis in children: Rapid scoping review and semi-structured interviews to inform development of a core outcome set. In: Cochrane Colloquium. 2023, London, UK: Cochrane.
- O'Connor N, Johnson EE, Wallace SA, Pearson F, Vale L. A scoping review and semi-structured interviews to generate a list of outcome measures used to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of interventions in children with nocturnal enuresis. In: 7th UK Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Research Conference: 'PROMs Across the Lifespan'. 2023, Sheffield, UK: PROMs.
- O'Connor N, Thomson K, Dangova K, Gill S, Wallace S, Jackson S, Pearson F. OP32 A Multistep Multistakeholder Priority Setting Exercise For Fecal Incontinence. In: Health Technology Assessment international (HTAi) 2022. 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands: Cambridge University Press.
- Johnson E, Pearson F, Lally J, Farnworth A. OP14 Involving People With A Lived Experience When Developing A Proposed Health Technology Assessment Of Pelvic Organ Prolapse Treatments. In: HTAi 2022. 2022, Utrecht, The Netherlands: Cambridge University Press.
- Young F, Critchley JA, O'Flaherty M, Capewell S. Individual versus Population Approaches to Cardiovascular Prevention: Modeling the Decline in Coronary Heart Disease Deaths in the USA, 1980-2000. In: Circulation: Joint Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism Conference/49th Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention. 2009, Palm Harbor, Florida, USA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Young F, Critchley JA, Ford E, O'Flaherty M, Capewell S. High-risk versus rose population approaches to prevention: Modelling the decline in coronary heart disease deaths in the United States 1980-2000. In: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health: Society for Social Medicine 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting. 2008, Southampton, UK: BMJ Publishing Group.
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Editorial
- Young F, Critchley J, Unwin N. Diabetes & tuberculosis: A dangerous liaison & no white tiger. Indian Journal of Medical Research 2009, 130(1), 1-4.
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Reviews
- Rice S, Carr K, Sobiesuo P, Shabaninejad H, Orozco-Leal G, Kontogiannis V, Marshall C, Pearson F, Moradi N, O'Connor N, Stoniute A, Richmond C, Craig D, Allegranzi B, Cassini A. Economic evaluations of interventions to prevent and control health-care-associated infections: a systematic review. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2023, 23(7), e228-e239.
- Logan K, Pearson F, Kenny RP, Pandanaboyana S, Sharp L. Are older patients less likely to be treated for pancreatic cancer? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Cancer Epidemiology 2022, 80, 102215.
- Nash EA, Critchley JA, Pearson F, Awad SF, Abu-Raddad LJ, Abu-Hijleh FM, Huangfu P. A systematic review of interventions to promote physical activity in six Gulf countries. PLoS One 2021, 16(10), e0259058.
- Young F, Critchley JA, Johnstone LK, Unwin NC. A review of co-morbidity between infectious and chronic disease in Sub Saharan Africa: TB and Diabetes Mellitus, HIV and Metabolic Syndrome, and the impact of globalization. Globilization and Health 2009, 5(9).