Flo Harrison
Effects of the school environment on body mass index in children
- School of Environmental Sciences
- University of East Anglia
- Norwich
- NR4 7TJ
- UK
- + 44 (0)
Email: Flo.Harrison’at’uea.ac.uk
I am undertaking an ESRC/MRC funded PhD looking at the effects of the school environment on child Body Mass Index. My work is being supervised by Graham Bentham, Andy Jones, Aedin Cassidy (MED) and Simon Griffin (MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge).
My PhD is linked to an NPRI funded project investigating environmental and social influences on physical activity. While the focus of the main study is physical actvity in children and adults, my work is looking at child body composition. I am particularly interested in the impact the school environment, including the policy and physical environment of the school and surrounds, has on child body mass.
Prior to starting my PhD I worked as a researcher at UEA on a project investigating environmental influences on cryptosporidiosis in England and Wales.
Publications in 2007
“Case-control study of environmental and social factors influencing cryptosporidiosis”
Iain Lake, Florence Harrison, Rachel Chalmers, Graham Bentham, Gordon Nichols, Paul Hunter, R Sari Kovats, Chris Grundy
European Journal of Epidemiology, 22, (11), 805–811
http://www.springerlink.com/content/l8g4615p6m785707/fulltext.pdf
“Cryptosporidiosis Decline after Regulation, England and Wales, 1989–2005”
Iain R. Lake, Gordon Nichols, Graham Bentham, Florence C.D. Harrison, Paul R. Hunter, and R. Sari Kovats
Emerging Infectious Dieseases 13, (4), 623–625
http://origin.cdc.gov/eid/content/13/4/623.htm
“Subtypes of Cryptosporidium parvum in Humans and Disease Risk”
Paul R. Hunter, Stephen J. Hadfield, Dawn Wilkinson, Iain R. Lake, Florence C.D. Harrison, Rachel M. Chalmers
Emerging Infectious Dieseases 13, (1), 82–88
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/550441