Meena Kumari
University of Essex, University College London Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Charing Cross and Westminser Medical School, University of Sheffield
0000-0001-9716-1035
About
Meena is a leading expert in biomarker, genomics and surveys, and has worked to apply insights from these areas to better understand ageing, cardiovascular disease, mental health and health inequalities using the Whitehall II cohort study of British civil servants and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
Meena is Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and the topic champion for health and biomarker content and research in Understanding Society. She leads research on the social-biological interface and genetic epidemiology as an investigator for the study.
Additionally she leads the Centre for Doctoral Training in Biosocial Research (Soc-B) at Essex University (in collaboration with UCL and University of Manchester).
Employment
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University of Essex Director2023 - Present
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University of Essex Professor2014 - Present
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University College London Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow/Principal Research Fellow1997 - 2014
Education
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Charing Cross and Westminser Medical School Ph.D
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University of Sheffield BSc. Physiology and Pharmacology
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (303)
- Socioeconomic position and the gut microbiota: a narrative synthesis of the association and recommendations Save
- A systematic review and empiric examination of the conceptual and analytic overlap between allostatic load and multimorbidity Save
- Area deprivation and multi-domain measures of ageing: biological ageing, cognitive, and subjective health across the entire adult age span Save
- Evaluating the performance of polygenic indices of neuropsychiatric conditions and brain endophenotypes in four UK population samples Save
- Community engagement and involvement in developing a community-based signposting tool for mental distress Save
- Systematic investigation of interindividual variation of DNA methylation in human whole blood Save
- Assessment of multidimensional measures of aging cross-sectionally and longitudinally across the entire adult age span in the United Kingdom Save
- A methylome-wide association study of major depression with out-of-sample case–control classification and trans-ancestry comparison Save
- Polygenic prediction of body mass index and obesity through the life course and across ancestries Save
- Risk of diagnosed and undiagnosed mental distress in coastal and inland English residents: A pooled cross-sectional analysis of adult UKHLS respondents Save