Objective 3

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Jamie Pearce is Professor of Health Geography, co-Director of the Centre for Research on Environment Society and Health, and Director of the Scottish Graduate School for Social Science. His research seeks to understand social, political and environmental mechanisms at different geographical scales that drive spatial inequalities in health over the lifecourse. He will contribute expertise in social context and inequalities across the programme, and co-lead the objective 3 work on inequalities, spatial variation and syndemics. Find out more about Jamie at the link below:

• Jamie's research page

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Chris Dibben has a personal chair in Geography, and is Director of both the Longitudinal Studies Centre Scotland, and the Administrative Data Liaison Service and Research Centre (responsible for the Scottish Longitudinal Study). He will contribute expertise in social context and inequalities across the programme, and co-lead the objective 3 work on inequalities, spatial variation and syndemics. Find out more about Chris at the links below:

• Chris' research page
• Chris' page at the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research

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Stewart Mercer is Professor of Primary Care and Multimorbidity with extensive mixed methods research experience in multimorbidity, physical-mental health comorbidity and health inequalities. He will contribute clinical and multimorbidity expertise across the programme, and lead the clinical contribution to the objective 3 work examining inequalities, spatial clustering and syndemics. Find out more about Stewart at the link below:

• Stewart's profile page

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Clare is a General Practitioner and was awarded a Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellowship in 2021. Her PhD involves using data science to better understand the interplay between health geography and multimorbidity. She works clinically as a GP and holds the MRCGP and MRCPCH. Find out more about Clare at the link below:

• Clare's profile page

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Alan Marshall is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods (Social Policy) specialising in the analysis of longitudinal data to understand how social circumstances and place influence health and other outcomes in later life. He has previously served as director of the Census and Administrative Data Longitudinal Studies Hub and will contribute expertise in social context and inequalities across the programme, and co-lead the objective 3 work on inequalities, spatial variation and syndemics. Find out more about Alan at the link below:

• Alan's profile page

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Bea Alex is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and has over 15 years of expertise in text mining and natural language processing with applications in the healthcare sector. She co-leads the Edinburgh Clinical NLP group with Dr. Honghan Wu. She will lead the objective 3 Natural Language Processing (NLP) geoprofiling activity, lead the objective 4 NLP to identify adverse events work in Edinburgh, and support external validation/transferability work with Dr Wu in UCL. Find out more about Bea at the link below:

• Bea's profile page

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Clare is a lecturer in Governance, Technology, and Data at the School of Social and Political Science. Her research interests are the neuropolitics of identity, social media, big data, natural language processing, an dtext and data analytics. Find out more about Clare at the link below:

• Clare's profile page

Claire is a member of the Language Technology Group, part of the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Find out more about Claire at the link below:

• Claire's personal page

Richard is a Research Fellow at the Language Technology Group at the University of Edinburgh. Find out more about Richard at the link below:

• Richard's personal page

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Andreas's research is on applied machine learning (ML) for natural language processing (NLP). He has extended EdIE-N, a neural network based text mining system for analysing radiologists' brain imaging reports (MRI and CT scans). Find out more about Andreas at the link below:

• Andreas' personal website