Dr Duncan Gillespie
PhD
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Senior Research Fellow
+44 114 222 4310
Full contact details
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
- Profile
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I aim to support decision-making to improve population health and reduce inequalities.
I'm interested in how population change results from changes in individuals' lives, and how inequalities in health and socio-economic situation are maintained during the process of population change. This research involves combining theory, qualitative, epidemiological and demographic data, and mathematical modelling to understand the link between individual and population change.
My research focuses on how to support decision makers to implement effective and equitable policy and interventions. This requires predicting their likely health, economic and wider societal effects, and thinking of new ways to present the outputs in terms of uncertainty-laden choices.
My current work in this area is mainly on tobacco and alcohol policy in the UK, where patterns of consumption are changing rapidly. I'm interested in opportunities to develop work in the area of cancer prevention, screening and improvement of outcomes. I'm also interested in developing this research in a global health context.
I am committed to developing open and reproducible code and software. I work primarily in the R environment. I am particularly interested in new ways to engineer mathematical modelling code to make it efficient, communicable and reusable across projects.
Keywords: Demography, ageing, public health modelling, epidemiology, inequality, health economics, population dynamics, R statistics, tobacco, alcohol and diet policy.
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Effectiveness of subnational implementation of minimum unit price for alcohol: policy appraisal modelling for local authorities in England. Addiction.
- Understanding long‐term trends in smoking in England, 1972‐2019 : an age‐period‐cohort approach. Addiction, 117(5), 1392-1403.
- Potential effects of minimum unit pricing at local authority level on alcohol-attributed harms in North West and North East England: a modelling study. Public Health Research, 9(4). View this article in WRRO
- The effect of alcohol tax changes on retail prices: how do on-trade alcohol retailers pass through tax changes to consumers?. The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care. View this article in WRRO
- Conceptualising changes to tobacco and alcohol policy as affecting a single interlinked system. BMC Public Health, 21. View this article in WRRO
- Do dual purchasers behave differently? An analysis of purchasing data for households that buy both alcohol and tobacco in the United Kingdom.. Addiction.
- Quantile regression of tobacco tax pass-through in the UK 2013–2019. How have manufacturers passed through tax changes for different tobacco products?. Tobacco Control. View this article in WRRO
- Impact of socioeconomic differences on distributional cost-effectiveness analysis. Medical Decision Making. View this article in WRRO
- Assessing the contribution of alcohol-specific causes to socio-economic inequalities in mortality in England and Wales 2001-16. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- Developing logic models to inform public health policy outcome evaluation : an example from tobacco control. Journal of Public Health. View this article in WRRO
- Reweighting national survey data for small area behaviour estimates : modelling alcohol consumption in local authorities in England. Population Health Metrics, 18(1). View this article in WRRO
- Socioeconomic inequalities in the delivery of Brief Interventions for smoking and excessive drinking: Findings from a cross-sectional household survey in England. BMJ Open, 9(4). View this article in WRRO
- Understanding the alcohol harm paradox: an analysis of sex- and condition-specific hospital admissions by socioeconomic group for alcohol-associated conditions in England.. Addiction, 112(5), 808-817. View this article in WRRO
- Are recent attempts to quit smoking associated with reduced drinking in England? A cross-sectional population survey. BMC Public Health, 16:535. View this article in WRRO
- Future trends and inequalities in premature coronary deaths in England: Modelling study. International Journal of Cardiology, 203, 290-297.
- Are interventions to promote healthy eating equally effective for all? Systematic review of socioeconomic inequalities in impact. BMC Public Health, 15(1).
- A victory for statins or a defeat for diet policies? Cholesterol falls in Poland in the past decade: A modeling study. International Journal of Cardiology, 185, 313-319.
- The health equity and effectiveness of policy options to reduce dietary salt intake in England: Policy forecast. PLoS ONE, 10(7). View this article in WRRO
- PP22 How do individual health trajectories drive population change? A mathematical decomposition of cohort ageing. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68(Suppl 1), A55.2-A56.
- Future declines of coronary heart disease mortality in England and Wales could counter the burden of population ageing.. PloS one, 9(6), e99482.
- Divergence in Age Patterns of Mortality Change Drives International Divergence in Lifespan Inequality. Demography, 51(3), 1003-1017.
- Options for modifying UK alcohol and tobacco tax: A rapid scoping review of the evidence over the period 1997–2018. NIHR Open Research, 3, 26-26.
Conference proceedings papers
- View this article in WRRO Using Framework Analysis Deductively: A case study from alcohol and tobacco tax policy and modelling research. Myths, Methods and Messiness: Insights for Qualitative Research Analysis: Edited Proceedings of the 5th Annual Qualitative Research Symposium' (pp 30-39). https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/publications/myths-methods-and-messiness-insights-for-qualitati, 30 January 2019.
All publications
Journal articles
- Estimating the effect of transitioning to a strength-based alcohol tax system on alcohol consumption and health outcomes: a modelling study of tax reform in England. The Lancet Public Health. View this article in WRRO
- The potential smoke-free dividend across local areas in England: A cross-sectional analysis. Tobacco Control.
- Reintroducing face-to-face support alongside remote support to form a hybrid stop smoking service in England: a formative mixed methods evaluation. BMC Public Health, 24. View this article in WRRO
- Estimation of integrated price elasticities for alcohol and tobacco in the
United Kingdom using the living costs and food survey 2006–2017. Drug and Alcohol Review. - Mapping alcohol and tobacco tax policy interventions to inform health and economic impact analyses: A United Kingdom based qualitative framework analysis. International Journal of Drug Policy, 122, 104247-104247.
- Effectiveness of subnational implementation of minimum unit price for alcohol: policy appraisal modelling for local authorities in England. Addiction.
- Understanding long‐term trends in smoking in England, 1972‐2019 : an age‐period‐cohort approach. Addiction, 117(5), 1392-1403.
- Potential effects of minimum unit pricing at local authority level on alcohol-attributed harms in North West and North East England: a modelling study. Public Health Research, 9(4). View this article in WRRO
- The effect of alcohol tax changes on retail prices: how do on-trade alcohol retailers pass through tax changes to consumers?. The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care. View this article in WRRO
- The SPECTRUM Consortium: a new UK Prevention Research Partnership consortium focussed on the commercial determinants of health, the prevention of non-communicable diseases, and the reduction of health inequalities.
- Conceptualising changes to tobacco and alcohol policy as affecting a single interlinked system. BMC Public Health, 21. View this article in WRRO
- Do dual purchasers behave differently? An analysis of purchasing data for households that buy both alcohol and tobacco in the United Kingdom.. Addiction.
- Quantile regression of tobacco tax pass-through in the UK 2013–2019. How have manufacturers passed through tax changes for different tobacco products?. Tobacco Control. View this article in WRRO
- Impact of socioeconomic differences on distributional cost-effectiveness analysis. Medical Decision Making. View this article in WRRO
- Assessing the contribution of alcohol-specific causes to socio-economic inequalities in mortality in England and Wales 2001-16. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- Developing logic models to inform public health policy outcome evaluation : an example from tobacco control. Journal of Public Health. View this article in WRRO
- Reweighting national survey data for small area behaviour estimates : modelling alcohol consumption in local authorities in England. Population Health Metrics, 18(1). View this article in WRRO
- OP42 How much evidence do we have, and how much more do we need for assessing the impact of public health interventions on health inequalities? Part 1 : smoking cessation interventions. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 73(Suppl 1). View this article in WRRO
- OP60 How much evidence do we have, and how much more do we need for assessing the impact of public health interventions on health inequalities? Part 2 : alcohol brief interventions. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 73(Suppl 1). View this article in WRRO
- OP87 A comprehensive evaluation of the impact of recent english tobacco control policy using secondary data. Oral Presentations.
- Socioeconomic inequalities in the delivery of Brief Interventions for smoking and excessive drinking: Findings from a cross-sectional household survey in England. BMJ Open, 9(4). View this article in WRRO
- Understanding the alcohol harm paradox: an analysis of sex- and condition-specific hospital admissions by socioeconomic group for alcohol-associated conditions in England.. Addiction, 112(5), 808-817. View this article in WRRO
- Are recent attempts to quit smoking associated with reduced drinking in England? A cross-sectional population survey. BMC Public Health, 16:535. View this article in WRRO
- Future trends and inequalities in premature coronary deaths in England: Modelling study. International Journal of Cardiology, 203, 290-297.
- Are interventions to promote healthy eating equally effective for all? Systematic review of socioeconomic inequalities in impact. BMC Public Health, 15(1).
- A victory for statins or a defeat for diet policies? Cholesterol falls in Poland in the past decade: A modeling study. International Journal of Cardiology, 185, 313-319.
- The health equity and effectiveness of policy options to reduce dietary salt intake in England: Policy forecast. PLoS ONE, 10(7). View this article in WRRO
- PP05 Are recent population declines in total cholesterol levels in Poland attributable to statin medications or dietary changes?. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68(Suppl 1), A49.1-A49.
- OP71 Comparing coronary mortality reductions by shifting the population blood pressure distribution versus improved management of hypertensive patients: modelling study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68(Suppl 1), A35.2-A36.
- PP22 How do individual health trajectories drive population change? A mathematical decomposition of cohort ageing. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68(Suppl 1), A55.2-A56.
- PP16 Can expert opinion rapidly provide useful quantitative data on policy effectiveness and inequalities? Pilot study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68(Suppl 1), A53.1-A53.
- Future declines of coronary heart disease mortality in England and Wales could counter the burden of population ageing.. PloS one, 9(6), e99482.
- Divergence in Age Patterns of Mortality Change Drives International Divergence in Lifespan Inequality. Demography, 51(3), 1003-1017.
- Abstract P401: Predicting Future Coronary Heart Disease Mortality Trends In England And Wales: A Bayesian Age Period Cohort Forecast Up To 2030. Circulation, 129(suppl_1).
- BIRTH-ORDER DIFFERENCES CAN DRIVE NATURAL SELECTION ON AGING. Evolution, 68(3), 886-892.
- THE EFFECT OF MATERNAL AGE AND REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY ON OFFSPRING SURVIVAL AND LIFETIME REPRODUCTION IN PREINDUSTRIAL HUMANS. Evolution, 67(7), 1964-1974.
- Severe intergenerational reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause. Ecology Letters, 15(11), 1283-1290.
- Corrections for "Assessing the function of house sparrows' bib size using a flexible meta-analysis method [Behav Ecol 18: 831-840]". Behavioral Ecology, 22(2), 445-446.
- The influence of sex and body size on nestling survival and recruitment in the house sparrow. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 101(3), 680-688.
- Pair‐Bonding Modifies the Age‐Specific Intensities of Natural Selection on Human Female Fecundity. The American Naturalist, 176(2), 159-169.
- When fecundity does not equal fitness: evidence of an offspring quantity versus quality trade-off in pre-industrial humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275(1635), 713-722. View this article in WRRO
- Predictable males and unpredictable females: sex difference in repeatability of parental care in a wild bird population. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20(5), 1674-1681.
- Does the badge of status influence parental care and investment in house sparrows? An experimental test. Oecologia, 153(3), 749-760.
- Geographical differences in the financial impacts of different forms of tobacco licence fees on small retailers in Scotland. Tobacco Control.
- Options for modifying UK alcohol and tobacco tax: A rapid scoping review of the evidence over the period 1997–2018. NIHR Open Research, 3, 26-26.
- Covariates of success in quitting smoking: a systematic review of studies from 2008 to 2021 conducted to inform the statistical analyses of quitting outcomes of a hospital-based tobacco dependence treatment service in the United Kingdom. NIHR Open Research, 3, 28-28.
- Options for modifying UK alcohol and tobacco tax: A rapid scoping review of the evidence over the period 1997–2018. NIHR Open Research, 3, 26-26.
- Options for modifying UK alcohol and tobacco tax: A rapid scoping review of the evidence over the period 1997–2018. NIHR Open Research, 3, 26-26.
- Simulating the impact of a fee scheme to regulate tobacco sales on retailers profits: a case study from Scotland. Tobacco Prevention & Cessation, 9(Supplement).
- Alcohol and tobacco tax options for the UK: A 'Syntax' project rapid review briefing.
Conference proceedings papers
- Effects on alcohol consumption of announcing revised UK low-risk drinking guidelines : findings from a monthly cross-sectional survey. The Lancet, Vol. 394 (pp S54-S54). London, UK, 29 November 2019 - 29 November 2019. View this article in WRRO
- Mapping alcohol and tobacco tax interventions for health in the UK: a qualitative framework analysis. The Lancet, Vol. 394 (pp S51-S51)
- View this article in WRRO Using Framework Analysis Deductively: A case study from alcohol and tobacco tax policy and modelling research. Myths, Methods and Messiness: Insights for Qualitative Research Analysis: Edited Proceedings of the 5th Annual Qualitative Research Symposium' (pp 30-39). https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/publications/myths-methods-and-messiness-insights-for-qualitati, 30 January 2019.
- View this article in WRRO Incorporating the COM-B model for behavior change into an agent-based model of smoking behaviors: an object-oriented design. Proceedings of the 2024 Winter Simulation Conference. Orlando, Florida, 15 December 2024 - 15 December 2024.
Reports
- Smoking and the risks of adult diseases View this article in WRRO
- View this article in WRRO An Evidence-Based Model for Estimating Requirements for Specialist Alcohol Treatment Capacity in England The Specialist Treatment for Alcohol Model (STreAM) Version 1.0
- Alcohol attributable fractions for England
- Smoking attributable fractions for adult diseases in England
- Alcohol-attributable diseases and dose-response curves for the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model version 4.0 View this article in WRRO
Posters
- Comparing socioeconomic gradients in alcohol-related harm between the four UK countries (PHE Applied Epidemiology Scientific Meeting 18-19 March 2015).
Datasets
- Archived data for ‘Conceptualising the alcohol-tobacco policy system: A qualitative problem structuring methodology study to inform health economics modelling’.
Other
- Understanding the use of transition probabilities in health economic models of smoking: A review to support development of the Sheffield Tobacco Policy Model.
Preprints
- Application of decision-analytic models to inform integrated care interventions for cardiometabolic multimorbidity: A systematic review, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Smoking Cessation after Transitioning from Hospital to Community Stop Smoking Services: Insights from Real-world Data Analysis, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Covariates of success in quitting smoking: a systematic review of studies from 2008 to 2021 conducted to inform the statistical analyses of quitting outcomes of a hospital-based tobacco dependence treatment service in the United Kingdom. View this article in WRRO
- Covariates of success in quitting smoking in the community and secondary acute or mental health care services: a rapid systematic review, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Divergence in age-patterns of mortality change drives international divergence in lifespan inequality, arXiv.
- Research group
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I currently work mainly with the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group and the SPECTRUM consortium to develop the health and economic modelling of the effects of tobacco and alcohol policies and interventions.
Main current research themes
The Sheffield Tobacco and Alcohol Policy Modelling Platform (STAPM)
Alcohol, tobacco and e-cigarette pricing policy
- Tax – Integrated evidence synthesis for joint appraisal of tobacco and alcohol tax interventions for harm reduction in the UK
- Minimum pricing
Stop smoking service evaluations
- The feasibility and acceptability of a hybrid remote and face-to-face smoking cessation service
- Evaluating hospital-based stop smoking services
Smoke-free university campus initiative
- Professional activities and memberships
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- University of Sheffield representative (with Dr Emma Hock) on Sheffield City Council's Tobacco Control Board
- Deputy editor for the journal Drug and Alcohol Review
- University of Sheffield representative (with Dr Emma Hock) on Sheffield City Council's Tobacco Control Board