Yr Athro Shantini Paranjothy

Clinical Senior Lecturer

: paranjothys@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44 (0)29 2068 7245
: Neuadd Meirionnydd, Ysbyty Athrofaol Cymru, Parc y Mynydd Bychan, Caerdydd, CF14 4YS

I am the Scientific Lead for HealthWise Wales, a national initiative funded by health and Care Research Wales to engage large numbers of people in Wales with health and social care research.

My research is focused on perinatal and infant health inequalities at Cardiff University. In 2008 I set up the Welsh Study of Mothers and Babies (WOMBS) to study the significance of ultrasound markers detected during pregnancy for the health of the baby (funded by MRC/WORD Health Research Partnership Award). The study recruited 30,000 mothers from all maternity units in Wales, with consent to follow up their children in future studies. The first of a series of planned follow-up studies with this cohort, to study renal diseases during childhood, will started in October 2013 and will report outcomes for children in the cohort up to age 5 years.

I am an executive member of the Farr Institute@CIPHER and have led a number of large-scale epidemiological analyses using record-linked data from routinely collected health and social data. One example was an analysis of birth outcomes for women who have had treatment for cervical abnormalities. This study used linked anonymised electronic records from a cohort of 174,325 women aged 20-39 years in Wales and reassuringly found that surgical treatment for pre-cancerous lesions did not increase the likelihood of premature birth or low birth-weight babies.

I lead the research theme on vulnerable babies in the Wales Electronic Cohort for Children (WECC), the first complete population e-cohort in the UK of 800,000 children, aimed at investigating the widest possible range of social and environmental determinants of child health and social outcomes by exploiting the potential of routinely collected datasets.

I am a contributor to the Cochrane Collaboration Pregnancy and Childbirth Group, and have authored three reviews relevant to the management and care of women during pregnancy and labour. I am also a Non-Executive Director at Public Health Wales NHS Trust.

Education and qualifications

MB ChB Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, 1995
MSc Medical Statistics (Distinction), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2000
DLSH&TM, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2000
Diploma Faculty of Family Planning & Reproductive Health, Faculty of Family Planning & Reproductive Health, 2000
PhD Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2005
Fellow Faculty of Public Health, Faculty of Public Health, Royal College of Physicians, 2010

Career overview

2016 - present: Mansel Talbot Professor of Preventive Medicine, CoDirector Division of Population Medicine, Cardiff University School of Medicine

2015 - present: Population Health Research Theme Lead, College of Biomedical & Life Sciences, Cardiff Unversity

2015 - present: Scientific Lead, HealthWise Wales

Aelodaethau proffesiynol

Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, Royal College of Physicians

Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol

2009 - 2016: Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine, Cardiff University School of Medicine

2007 - 2009: Walport Clinical Lecturer in Public Health Medicine, Cardiff University School of Medicine

2000 - 2004: Clinical Research Fellow, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Pwyllgorau ac adolygu

2016 - present: Member of School of Medicine Board
2015 - present: Member of BLS College Research Committee

External

Non Executive Director Public Health Wales NHS Trust
Treasurer and Public Health Representative on the British Association for Child & Adolescent Public Health (BACAPH) Executive Committee.

2010

Fone, D. L., Paranjothy, S. and Stiff, R. 2010. Innovation and change in public health. In: Watkins, D. and Cousins, J. eds. Public Health and Community Nursing: Frameworks for practice 3rd Edition. Elsevier Bailliere Tindall, pp. 27-46.
Hill, R. A.et al. 2010. Protocol of the baseline assessment for the Environments for Healthy Living (EHL) Wales cohort study. BMC Public Health 10, pp. 150-157. (10.1186/1471-2458-10-150)

2009

Eisenhut, M.et al. 2009. BCG vaccination reduces risk of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis as detected by gamma interferon release assay. Vaccine 27(44), pp. 6116-6120. (10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.08.031)
Brown, H. C.et al. 2009. Package of care for active management in labour for reducing caesarean section rates in low-risk women (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009(3), article number: CD004907. (10.1002/14651858.CD004907.pub2)
Paranjothy, S.et al. 2009. The incidence and aetiology of epistaxis in infants: a population-based study. Archives of Disease in Childhood 94(6), pp. 421-424. (10.1136/adc.2008.144881)
Paranjothy, S.et al. 2009. Teenage pregnancy: who suffers?. Archives of Disease in Childhood 94(3), pp. 239-245. (10.1136/adc.2007.115915)
Griffiths, J. D.et al. 2009. Interventions for reducing nausea and vomiting at caesarean section. The Cochrane Library 1, pp. 1-9. (10.1002/14651858.CD007579)

2008

Paranjothy, S.et al. 2008. Extensive transmission of mycobacterium tuberculosis from a 9-year old child with sputum - smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis [Abstract]. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 12(s1), pp. e49. (10.1016/j.ijid.2008.05.014)
Paranjothy, S.et al. 2008. Extensive transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from 9 year old child with pulmonary tuberculosis and negative sputum smear. British Medical Journal (BMJ) 337(aug28), article number: a1184. (10.1136/bmj.a1184)
Paranjothy, S.et al. 2008. Interventions at caesarean section for reducing aspiration pneumonitis. The Cochrane Library 3, pp. 1-9. (10.1002/14651858.CD004943.pub2)
Joffe, M.et al. 2008. Use of time to pregnancy in environmental epidemiology and surveillance. Journal of Public Health 30(2), pp. 178-185. (10.1093/pubmed/fdn005)

2007

Adappa, R.et al. 2007. Perinatal and infant autopsy. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition 92(1), pp. F49-F50. (10.1136/adc.2005.091447)

2005

Paranjothy, S., Frost, C. and Thomas, J. 2005. How much variation in CS rates can be explained by case mix differences?. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 112(5), pp. 658-666. (10.1111/j.1471-0528.2005.00501.x)

2004

Thomas, J., Paranjothy, S. and James, D. 2004. National cross sectional survey to determine whether the decision to delivery interval is critical in emergency caesarean section. BMJ 328(7441), pp. 665-665. (10.1136/bmj.38031.775845.7C)

2003

Thomas, J., Paranjothy, S. and Templeton, A. 2003. An audit of the management of induced abortion in England and Wales. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 83(3), pp. 327-334. (10.1016/S0020-7292(03)00305-9)

2002

Thomas, J.et al. 2002. Cardiotocography v Doppler auscultation: guidelines highlight gaps in research evidence [Letter]. British Medical Journal 324(7335), pp. 482-483. (10.1136/bmj.324.7335.482)

2001

Thomas, J. and Paranjothy, S. 2001. The National Sentinel Caesarean Section Audit Report. Project Report. RCOG Press.

2000

Paranjothy, S. and Thomas, J. 2000. Multilevel modelling. The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist 2(4), pp. 52. (10.1576/toag.2000.2.4.52)
Thomas, J., Callwood, A. and Paranjothy, S. 2000. National Sentinel Caesarean Section Audit: update. Practising Midwife 3