Research

Publications

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Baxter, A. J., Dundas, R., Popham, F. and Craig, P. (2021) How effective was England’s teenage pregnancy strategy? A comparative analysis of high-income countries. Social Science & Medicine, 270 (doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113685)

Baxter, A. J., Tweed, E. J., Katikireddi, S. V. and Thomson, H. (2019) Effects of Housing First approaches on health and wellbeing of adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 73, pp. 379-387. (doi:10.1136/jech-2018-210981)

Presentations

Baxter, A. J., Why are rates of teenage pregnancy falling? University of Glasgow 3-Minute Thesis competition 2020. Finalist
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Baxter, A. J., Dundas, R., Popham, F. and Craig, P., Did England’s Teenage Pregnancy Strategy reduce pregnancy rates in England? Evaluating a policy using two natural experimental methods. Society for Social Medicine and Population Health – Annual Scientific Meeting 2020

Baxter, A. J., Using R to create a Shiny app to do your analyses for you! MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit – Internal conference August 2019

Baxter, A. J., Tweed, E. J., Katikireddi, S. V. and Thomson, H., Effects of Housing First approaches on health and well-being of adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Society for Social Medicine and Population Health – Annual Scientific Meeting 2019

Current Projects

Evaluating England’s Teenage Pregnancy Strategy using Interrupted Time Series and Synthetic Control methods
Contributors: Andrew Baxter, Frank Popham, Ruth Dundas, Peter Craig
doi:10.17605/osf.io/8u9jp

Interventions and changes in culture, policy and environment leading to reduced rates of pregnancy amongst teenagers in high income countries: a systematic review of prior literature reviews
Contributors: Andrew Baxter, Ruth Dundas, Peter Craig
doi:10.17605/osf.io/dr42f

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R in Public Health Workshop
R in Public Health Workshop

On the 28th of May we delivered a four-part workshop on using R in Public Health. You can find all course materials on the GitHub Page and the workshop sessions on YouTube. Below is the Shiny session which I co-delivered.