Claire Zhang
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Claire Zhang
MSc
DPhil Student
Claire joined the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit in the Oxford Population Health department as a DPhil student and Clarendon Scholar in 2021 under the supervision of Associate Professor Claire Carson, Professor Maria Quigley and Associate Professor Clare Bankhead (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences). She is exploring ethnic inequities in infants' and young children's use of preventive care and potentially avoidable healthcare in England through quantitative analysis of linked electronic health records.
Claire has broad interests in public health, global health and health systems, particularly in evidence generation and knowledge translation to reduce health inequalities. Alongside her studies, Claire works as a Consultant for the World Health Organization in the Health and Migration Programme, and with the UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti on child health & global health research. Claire is a Trustee for Art Refuge, an international charity that supports the mental health and wellbeing of forcibly displaced people through arts-based approaches. She is an honorary researcher in public health data science at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Health Informatics.
Before joining Oxford Population Health, Claire completed a MSc in Population Health at UCL as a Rotary Foundation Global Grant Scholar. She has worked in a number of policy, analysis, evaluation and programme management roles in Public Health England, the UK Department of Health and Social Care and the NHS. Claire's clinical background is in paediatric speech and language therapy. She worked in hospitals and community health services in the UK and Australia before transitioning into public health.
Recent publications
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The impact of NHS charging regulations on healthcare access and utilisation among migrants in England: a systematic review
Journal article
Rassa N. et al, (2023), BMC Public Health, 23
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Ethnic differences and inequities in paediatric healthcare utilisation in the UK: a scoping review.
Journal article
Zhang CX. et al, (2022), Arch Dis Child
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Migrants’ primary care utilisation before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: An interrupted time series analysis
Journal article
Zhang C. et al, (2022), The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 20, 100455 - 100455
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What can the UK learn from the impact of migrant populations on national life expectancy?
Journal article
Hiam L. et al, (2022), Journal of Public Health
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Migrants’ primary care utilisation before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: An interrupted time series
Preprint
Zhang C. et al, (2022)
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Development and Validation of a Primary Care Electronic Health Record Phenotype to Study Migration and Health in the UK.
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Pathak N. et al, (2021), Int J Environ Res Public Health, 18
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Developing interprofessional collaboration between clinicians, interpreters, and translators in healthcare settings: outcomes from face-to-face training.
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Zhang CX. et al, (2021), J Interprof Care, 35, 521 - 531
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Healthcare resource utilisation and mortality outcomes in international migrants to the UK: analysis protocol for a linked population-based cohort study using Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
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Pathak N. et al, (2021)
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Migration health research in the United Kingdom: A scoping review.
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Burns R. et al, (2021), J Migr Health, 4
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Social prescribing for migrants in the United Kingdom: A systematic review and call for evidence.
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Zhang CX. et al, (2021), J Migr Health, 4
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Healthcare resource utilisation and mortality outcomes in international migrants to the UK: analysis protocol for a linked population-based cohort study using Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
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Pathak N. et al, (2020), Wellcome Open Research, 5, 156 - 156
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Development and evaluation of interprofessional e-learning for speech pathologists, interpreters and translators
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Zhang C. et al, (2020), The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research, 12, 142 - 158