People
- Professor Candace Currie OBE | Director / HBSC International Co-ordinator
- Jehane Barbour | Administrative Assistant
- Dorothy Currie | Senior Statistician
- Justine Geyer | Research Student
- Paula Grieve | Administrative Assistant
- Emily Healy | Research Administrator
- Jo Inchley | Assistant Director / Research Fellow
- Jo Kirby | Research Associate
- Kate Levin | Senior Research Fellow
- Fiona Mitchell | Research Student
- Antony Morgan | CAHRU Honorary Research Fellow
- Janine Muldoon | Research Fellow
- Becky Smith | Assistant HBSC International Co-ordinator
- Ashley Theunissen | Acting Assistant HBSC International Co-ordinator
- Winfried van der Sluijs | Research Fellow
- Cara Zanotti (Letsch)| HBSC Research Communications Officer
Kate Levin | Senior Research Fellow
Contact Details
Phone: +44 (0)131 651 6547
Fax: +44 (0)131 651 6271
Email: kate.levin@ed.ac.uk
Biography
Kate Levin graduated in 1994 with a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of St Andrews. She obtained a MSc in Social Statistics in 2001 from the University of Southampton. She then spent 3 years as a research associate at the Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, working within the 'Monitoring Health, Variations in Health, and the Determinants of Health in Scotland' programme on a project titled 'Urban/rural differences in health in Scotland. Kate then worked in the Dental Health Services Research Unit in Dundee as a research statistician, primarily involved in the National Dental Inspection Programme, which annually surveys 5 and 11 year old children. Kate joined CAHRU in August 2006.
Research Interests
- Inequalities in health and health behaviour
- Urban/Rural differences in health
- Emotional well-being of young people
- Oral health of children and adolescents
- Trends in the health of adolescents in Scotland
- International comparisons of health trends
- Multilevel modelling of survey data
Activities/Projects
Professional Qualifications
Chartered Statistician, Royal Statistical Society
Publications
Akhtar P, Haw SJ, Levin K, Currie D, Zachary R, Currie C (in press) Socioeconomic differences in secondhand smoke exposure among children in Scotland after introduction of the smoke-free legislation. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Online First August 13, 2009. [DOI:10.1136/jech.2008.084178]
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Levin KA, Currie C (in press) Family structure, mother-child communication, father-child communication, and adolescent life satisfaction: A cross-sectional multilevel analysis. Health Education.
Levin KA, Currie C (in press) Adolescent toothbrushing and the home environment: Sociodemographic factors, family relationships and mealtime routines and disorganisation. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. Online First October 21, 2009 [DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0528.2009.00509.x]
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Levin KA, Currie C, Muldoon J (in press) Mental well-being and subjective health of 11-15 year old boys and girls in Scotland, 1994-2006. European Journal of Public Health. Advanced Access published April 21, 2009. [DOI:10.1093/eurpub/ckp046]
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Goldstein H, Carpenter J, Kenward MG, Levin KA (2009) Multilevel models with multivariate mixed response types. Statistical Modelling, 9(3), 173-197. [DOI: 10.1177/1471082X0800900301]
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Levin KA, Davies CA, Topping GVA, Assaf AV, Pitts NB (2009) Inequalities in dental caries of 5-year old children in Scotland, 1993-2003. European Journal of Public Health, 19, 337-342. [DOI:10.1093/eurpub/ckp035]
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Levin KA and Currie C (2009) Inequalities in tooth brushing among adolescents in Scotland, 1998-2006. Health Education Research, 24(1), 87-97. [DOI: 10.1093/her/cym096]
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Levin KA, Jones C, Wight C, Valentine C, Topping G, Naysmith R (2009) Fluoride rinsing and dental health inequalities in 11-year-old children: an evalution of a supervised school-based fluoride rinsing programme in Edinburgh. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 37, 19-26. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2008.00445.x]
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Levin KA. Toolbox Series: Study design I to VII (2005-2007) Evidence Based Dentistry, 6(3)-8(1).
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Levin KA and Leyland AH (2006) A comparison of health inequalities in urban and rural Scotland. Social Science & Medicine, 62, 1457-1464.
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Levin KA and Leyland AH (2006) Urban/rural inequalities in ischaemic heart disease in Scotland, 1981-1999. American Journal of Public Health, 96, 145-151.
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Levin KA and Leyland AH (2005) Urban/rural inequalities in suicide in Scotland, 1981-1999. Social Science & Medicine, 60, 2877-2890.
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Levin KA (2003) Urban/rural differences in self reported limiting long term illness in Scotland. Journal of Public Health Medicine, 25, 303-312.
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