Alex is currently working in the Healthy Lives team on how local government can be best supported in a whole council approach to health, and on the links between system-wide approaches to climate change and health.
Alex is a medically trained doctor, currently on the Public Health training programme, and has previously worked at Lewisham Local Authority, Public Health England and NICE.
Alex has completed his medical training at Oxford University and has both an MSc in Epidemiology and an MPH in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is a member of the Faculty of Public Health.
Allen, Alexander, et al. Development and Pilot Test of the Registry Evaluation and Quality Standards Tool: An Information Technology–Based Tool to Support and Review Registries. Value in Health (2022).
Rao, G. G., Allen, A., Papineni, P., Wang, L., Anderson, C., McGregor, A., ... & Kuper, M. (2021). Cross-sectional observational study of epidemiology of COVID-19 and clinical outcomes of hospitalised patients in North West London during March and April 2020. BMJ open, 11(2), e044384.
Berger, N., Cummins, S., Allen, A., Smith, R. D., & Cornelsen, L. (2020). Patterns of beverage purchases amongst British households: A latent class analysis. PLoS medicine, 17(9), e1003245.
Allen, A. N., Clarke, R., Shipley, M., & Leon, D. A. (2019). Adiposity in middle and old age and risk of death from dementia: 40-year follow-up of 19,000 men in the Whitehall study. Age and Ageing, 48(2), 247-253.
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