Jane West is Director of Public Health Research and the ActEarly Consultant in Public Health. She manages the Bradford ActEarly site working with ActEarly members, partners and the Public Health Team at Bradford Metropolitan District Council. Jane is also the NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN) National Specialty Lead for Public Health supporting the development and delivery of the CRN Public Health portfolio. Her research interests include geographical, income and ethnic inequalities and their impact on child health, size and growth, wider determinants of health and wellbeing, and systems approaches to disease prevention and population health.

Why you enjoy working at BiB

I grew up in Bradford and am proud to be part of BiB and this opportunity to drive better opportunities and better health for all the children and young people growing up here in the future.

Favourite toy when you were a child

Dolls house that came from Feathers Toy Store in Bradford.

Favourite pastime when not at work

Sounds a bit sedentary but reading!

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Kuldeep Sohal, Dan Mason, John Birkinshaw, Jane West, Rosemary R.C. McEachan, Mai Elshehaly, Duncan Cooper, Rob Shore, Michael McCooe, Tom Lawton, Mark Mon-Williams, Trevor Sheldon, Chris Bates, Megan Wood, John Wright , (2022). Connected Bradford: a Whole System Data Linkage Accelerator. Wellcome Open Research DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17526.2,
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Gillian Santorelli, Jane West, Tiffany Yang, John Wright, Maria Bryant, D.A.Lawlor, (2021). Differences in total and regional body fat and their association with BMI in UK-born White and South Asian children: findings from the Born in Bradford birth cohort [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]. Wellcome Open Research DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16659.1,
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Eleanor Ralphs, Lucy Pembrey, Jane West & Gillian Santorelli , (2021). Association between mode of delivery and body mass index at 4-5 years in White British and Pakistani children: the Born in Bradford birth cohort. Springer DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-11009,
Gillian Santorelli; Trevor Sheldon; Jane West; Chris Cartwright; John Wright, (2020). COVID-19 in-patient hospital mortality by ethnicity. Wellcome Open Research
Gillian Santorelli, Jane West, Dan Mason, Chris Cartwright, Leena Inamdar, Caroline Tomes, John Wright, (2020). Factors associated with the uptake of the UK routine childhood immunization schedule in a bi-ethnic population. European Journal of Public Health, 30(4), 697-702. DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa069,
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Rosemary R.C. McEachan, Josie Dickerson, Sally Bridges, Maria Bryant, Christopher Cartwright, Shahid Islam, Bridget Lockyer, Aamnah Rahman, Laura Sheard, Jane West, Deborah A. Lawlor, Trevor A. Sheldon, John Wright, Kate E. Pickett, (2020). The Born in Bradford COVID-19 Research Study: Protocol for an adaptive mixed methods research study to gather actionable intelligence on the impact of COVID-19 on health inequalities amongst families living in Bradford. Wellcome Open Research DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16129.1),
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Paul J. Collings, Diane Farrar, Joanna Gibson, Jane West, Sally E. Barber & John Wright, (2019). Associations of Pregnancy Physical Activity with Maternal Cardiometabolic Health, Neonatal Delivery Outcomes and Body Composition in a Biethnic Cohort of 7305 Mother–Child Pairs: The Born in Bradford Study. Sports Medicine 615-628. DOI: 10.1007/s40279-019-01193-8,
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Gillian Santorelli, Debbie A. Lawlor, Jane West, Derek Tuffnell & Diane Farrar , (2019). Population reference and healthy standard blood pressure range charts in pregnancy: findings from the Born in Bradford cohort study. Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-55324-2,
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John Wright, Andrew C. Hayward, Jane West, Kate E. Pickett, Rosie M. McEachan, Mark Mon-Williams, Nicola Christie, Laura Vaughan, Jess Sheringham, Muki Haklay, Laura Sheard, Josie Dickerson, Sally Barber, Neil Small, Richard Cookson, Philip Garnett, Tracey Bywater, Nicholas Pleace, Eric J. Brunner, Claire Cameron, Marcella Ucci, Steve Cummins, Daisy Fancourt, Jens Kandt, Paul Longley, Steve Morris, George Ploubidis, Robert Savage, Robert W. Aldridge, Dan Hopewell, Tiffany Yang, Dan Mason, Gillian Santorelli, Richard Romano, Maria Bryant, Liam Crosby, Trevor Sheldon, (2019). ActEarly: a City Collaboratory approach to early promotion of good health and wellbeing. Wellcome Open Research
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Jane West, Gillian Santorelli, Paul Collings, Daniel Bingham, Peter Whincup, Naveed Sattar, Tom Norris, John Wright, Debbie A. Lawlor, (2019). Associations of cord leptin and cord insulin with adiposity and blood pressure in White British and Pakistani children aged 4/5 years. Wellcome Open Research
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Diane Farrar, Gillian Santorelli, Debbie A. Lawlor, Derek Tuffnell, Trevor A. Sheldon, Jane West & Corrie Macdonald-Wallis, (2019). Blood pressure change across pregnancy in white British and Pakistani women: analysis of data from the Born in Bradford cohort. Scientific Reports
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Gillian Santorelli, Donald Whitelaw, Diane Farrar, Jane West, Debbie A Lawlor, (2019). Associations of maternal vitamin D, PTH and calcium with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and associated adverse perinatal outcomes: Findings from the Born in Bradford cohort study. Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-37600-9,
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Paul J Collings, Soren Brage, Daniel D Bingham, Silvia Costa, Jane West, Rosemary RC McEachan, John Wright, and Sally E Barber, (2017). Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, and Fatness in a Biethnic Sample of Young Children. Med Sci Sports Exerc, 49(5), 930-938. DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000001180,