Dr S White
Applications accepted all year round
Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
About the Project
The KCL Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Driven Health will train the next generation of PhD health data scientists within an active NHS environment with the skills they need to develop new models of data-driven care, leveraging significant recent investment and infrastructure in Health Data Research within the UK.
As part of this doctoral training program partnership, studentships will be available for autumn 2021 entry.
Gestational Diabetes (GDM) is a type of diabetes that occurs during pregnancy but usually resolves after delivery. It is recognised that women who develop GDM are at an increased lifetime risk, up to 10 times, of developing type 2 diabetes after pregnancy. Guidelines recommend that such women undertake a blood test ~3 months post-pregnancy to check for diabetes, with annual repeat testing if negative. This study will use KCL’s eLIXIR (early-LIfe data cross-LInkage in Research) research platform to explore how effectively post-pregnancy screening is undertaken after GDM pregnancy in South London, in order to benchmark, and ultimately enable, an improvement in postpartum surveillance. Additionally, it will provide local information on the number and characteristics of women who develop diabetes, a first step to early prediction and facilitation of targeted intervention.
Contact: Dr. Sara White ([Email Address Removed])
Students with a strong academic record are encouraged to approach the specific supervisors of the project they are interested in to discuss further.
For further details of this program, including information on last years intake please see: https://drive-health.org
Further details about research within the department please see:
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/solcs/our-departments/department-of-women-childrens-health
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