Mr Nuredin Mohammed

Doctoral Researcher

Contact details

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Institute of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
School of Health and Populations Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

PhD title: The Delta Study: A reanalysis of time series studies of air pollution and acute health effects

Supervisors:  Dr. Hubert Lam (UoB) and Dr. Richard Atkinson(SGUL)

This multidisciplinary study which is based on existing time series data and methods looks into the applicability and modelling of alternative exposure metrics for the study of acute health effects of air pollution in order to improve the prediction of the health effects due air pollution. These physiologically motivated new metrics are based on simple algebraic functions of daily absolute measures of exposure and finding an identifiable model will be one of the challenges in the course of the study. The project also benefits from excellent collaboration from within and outside the university as it is overseen by leading authorities in the area of environmental epidemiology from UoB, LSHTM, SGUL, and University of Hong Kong.

Qualifications

  • MSc in Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London, 2009
  • MSc in Statistics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 2007
  • BSc in Statistics with minor in computer science, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia,2005

Biography

Nuredin graduated with Masters degree in 2007 from AAU while working for the Ethiopian statistical association and joined the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in 2008/2009 to specialise in Medical Statistics through TEG/LSHTM’s scholarship award for African scientists. He then went to the MRC Laboratories, The Gambia unit as a postgraduate fellow in medical statistics for one year where he worked mainly on the analyses of laboratory data from various projects. After completing his fellowship in November 2010, Nuredin moved to Birmingham as doctoral researcher based at IOEM to work on the delta study. His research interest is generally in the application of statistical methodology in biomedical research. Particular application areas include environmental epidemiology and analysis of laboratory data.

Other activities

Nuredin is currently member of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), Ethiopian
Statistical Association (ESA) and Ethiopian Evaluation Association (EEvA).

Publications

Holder B, Miles DJC, Kaye S, Crozier S, Mohammed NI, et al. Epstein-Barr Virus but Not Cytomegalovirus Is Associated with Reduced Vaccine Antibody Responses in Gambian Infants. PLoS ONE 2010, 5(11).

Kwambana BA, Mohammed NI, Jeffries D, Barer M, Adegbola RA, Antonio A. Differential effects of frozen storage on the molecular detection of bacterial taxa that inhabit the nasopharynx. BMC Clinical Pathology 2011, 11:2.

Dione MM, Ikumapayi UN, Saha D, Mohammed NI, Geerts S, et al. Clonal Differences between Non-Typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) Recovered from Children and Animals Living in Close Contact in The Gambia. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2011, 5(5).

Nuredin Ibrahim and Eshetu Wencheko. Evaluation of factors affecting Survival/Death status of HIV positive people taking Antiretroviral Treatment: A Case Study. Journal of Ethiopian Statistical Association 2007, Vol. 16.

Ali Abdulhakim and Nuredin Ibrahim. OLS & Simultaneous Equation Methods for simple Keynesian model (Income determination model) on the Ethiopian macroeconomic data. Journal of Ethiopian Statistical Association 2005, Vol. 14.

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