Dr Dana Sumilo DPhil (Oxon.), MFPH

Dana Sumilo

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Honorary Clinical Research Fellow in Public Health

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7692
Email
d.sumilo@bham.ac.uk
Address
Department of Applied Health Sciences
College of Medicine and Health
Public Health building
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dana Sumilo is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Applied Health Sciences and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.

Her main research interests are in the areas of health services research, policy evaluation, maternal and child health and infectious disease epidemiology.

She is the Chief Investigator of the NIHR HTA funded project (16/150/01) “Long term impact of giving antibiotics before skin incision versus after cord clamping on children born by caesarean section: longitudinal study based on UK electronic health records”.

Dana is also the deputy lead of Evidence Based Medicine and Research Methods Module (MBChB) and the International Health Protection Module (MPH).

Qualifications

  • FFPH, Faculty of Public Health
  • DPhil, University of Oxford

Biography

Dana Sumilo obtained her first and Master degrees in Health Sciences/ Healthcare (Public Health) from Riga Stradins University (Medical Academy of Latvia). After completing her DPhil in Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, she trained in Public Health in the West Midlands, and became a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health in 2016.

Teaching

Postgraduate supervision

  • Maternal and child health
  • Communicable disease epidemiology
  • Health services research

Research

Dana’s primary research interests are in the areas of maternal and child health and infectious disease epidemiology.

She is also interested in health services research, overtreatment, pharmacoepidemiology, international public health, health inequalities and technology enhanced interventions to improve health and wellbeing.

Research Groups and Centres:

Health Informatics

Other activities

  • Honorary contract - Public Health England

Publications

Šumilo D,Kurinczuk JJ, Redshaw ME, Gray R. (2013), ., BMJ Open, 3:e004190 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004190

Šumilo D, Kurinczuk JJ, Redshaw ME, Gray R. (2012), , BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 12:31.

Vanwambeke S., Šumilo D., Bormane A., Lambin E. & Randolph SE. (2010), ., Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 10 (5): 497-506.

Šumilo D.,Bormane A., Vasilenko V., Golovljova I., Asokliene L., Zygutiene M. & Randolph SE. (2009), . Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 15(1), 75–80.

Šumilo D., Asokliene L., Avsic-Zupanc T., Bormane A., Vasilenko V., Golovljova I. & Randolph SE. (2008), Vaccine, 26 (21), 2580-2588.

Šumilo D., Bormane A., Asokliene L., Vasilenko V., Avsic-Zupanc T., Hubalek Z. & Randolph SE. (2008), Reviews in Medical Virology, 18 (2), 81-95.

Randolph SE. & Šumilo D. (2007),. Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2007, pp. 185–206.

Šumilo D., Asokliene L., Bormane A., Vasilenko V., Golovljova I. & Randolph SE. (2007), PLoS ONE 2 (6), e500.