Dr Abigail Stevely
BSc, MPH, PhD
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Research Fellow
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Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
G033
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
91Ö±²¥
S1 4DA
- Profile
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I am currently a Research Fellow working in the 91Ö±²¥ Alcohol Research Group (SARG), funded by the NIHR SPHR Post-doctoral Launching Fellowships scheme. I am also working on a project evaluating the public health impact of no- and low-alcohol drinks.
My background is in biomedical science and public health. I completed my BSc, MPH and PhD at the University of 91Ö±²¥. My PhD thesis applied theories of practice to develop alcohol epidemiology and policy analysis. I used data on how people drink alcohol (eg drinking beer in a pub or relaxing on the sofa) to identify contexts associated with heavy alcohol consumption within drinking occasions and to evaluate the effects of the Licensing Act 2003. I joined SARG in 2020 as a Research Associate.
- Research interests
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My research focuses on alcohol epidemiology, public health policy evaluation, and reducing health inequalities. I am interested in how complex social systems produce and interact with population health and inequalities, and in using this knowledge to inform intervention development, evaluation and refinement.
My recent projects have focused on changes in the clustering of health and wellbeing indicators among adolescents in high-income countries since the early 2000s, and the evaluation of major alcohol policies including minimum unit pricing in Scotland.
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
All publications
Journal articles
- . JMIR Formative Research, 8.
- . The Lancet Public Health.
- . Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
- . International Journal of Drug Policy, 127, 104414-104414.
- . SSM - Population Health, 101548-101548.
- . Preventive Medicine Reports.
- . Public Health, 220, 43-49.
- . Lancet, 400 Suppl 1, S50.
- . Addiction.
- . Alcohol Clin Exp Res, 45(3), 630-637.
- . Addiction.
- . Public Health Research, 8(14).
- . Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
- . Drug and Alcohol Review.
- . Addiction.
- . The European Journal of Health Economics.
- . BMC Public Health, 18(1), 251-251.
- . Drug and Alcohol Review.
- . PLOS Digital Health, 3(8), e0000523-e0000523.
- A latent class analysis of international change and continuity in adolescent health and wellbeing: a repeat cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE.
- . Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 1-14.
- . Drug and Alcohol Review.
- . Journal of Youth Studies, 1-17.
- Situated drinking: the association between eating and alcohol consumption in Great Britain. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
- Are changes in attitudes towards school associated with declining youth drinking? A multi-level analysis of 37 countries. European Journal of Public Health.
- . PLOS ONE, 10(11), e0141104-e0141104.
- What proportion of on-trade alcohol is served to those who are already potentially intoxicated? An analysis of event-level data. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
Conference proceedings papers
- . SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
- . The Lancet, Vol. 394 (pp S54-S54). London, UK, 29 November 2019 - 29 November 2019.
- . Trials, Vol. 16(S2)
Reports
- Evaluating the impact of Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland on people who are drinking at harmful levels
- Changes in alcohol consumption in Scotland during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: Descriptive analysis of repeat cross-sectional survey data
Preprints
- Grants
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- NIHR SPHR Launching Fellowship
- Evaluating and responding to the public health impact of no and low alcohol drinks: A multimethod study of a complex intervention in a complex system (NIHR PHR Research Grant)
- Developing contextually specific interventions to reduce alcohol consumption amongst increasing and higher-risk drinkers within the Drink Less App (MRC PHIND Research Grant)
- Evaluating the effect of Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland on harmful drinkers (commissioned by Public Health Scotland)
- Doctoral studentship (NIHR SPHR and University of 91Ö±²¥)