NOTTINGHAM RESEARCH FELLOW, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
Dr. Magdalena Opazo Breton is a Senior Research Fellow at the Unit of Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences. She holds a Nottingham Research/Anne McLaren Fellowship from the University of Nottingham and an NIHR Advanced Fellowship. She has an undergraduate degree in Sociology (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), two master's degrees in Economics (Georgetown University and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and a PhD in Economics (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). She has worked across diverse disciplinary fields, including Public Health, Economics, Urbanism, Sociology, Politics, and Business, in different countries (Spain, Chile, and the UK) and institutions for the last 20 years. This diverse background has provided her with many professional and personal skills. In terms of methodological skills, she has a strong quantitative background and a special interest in policy evaluation using causal inference methods.
In 2019, she was awarded an MRC Skills Development Fellowship and moved to the University of Sheffield. The title of her fellowship was: Developing a research programme and advanced skills in econometric modelling to study dynamic health behaviours: transitions and persistence in smoking behaviour at an individual, household, birth cohort and local authority level. In 2024, she was awarded a Nottingham Research / Anne McLaren Fellowship and an NIHR Advanced Fellowship to further develop her causal inference skills to study the impact of large-scale public health policies implemented in the UK on reducing the risk of dementia.
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