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Dr Blánaid Hicks

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
Dr Blánaid Hicks

Dr Blánaid Hicks

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Dr Hicks’ research interests are in the field of pharmacoepidemiology and cancer epidemiology.

As a pharmacoepidemiologist Dr Hicks' interests are in studying the use, benefits and risks of drugs and medical products in the real world. As such her research utilises mainly large electronic healthcare databases (real world data) and innovative and robust statistical methods.

Her main research area to date has been in cancer pharmacoepidemiology to (1) identify commonly used medications that influence the risk of cancer and cancer outcomes and (2) evaluate the effectiveness and safety of cancer treatments.

She is open to other pharmacoepidemiology projects in other disease areas.

Contact info

  • b.hicks@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 8997

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the fields of:

  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Cancer epidemiology
  • Health services research
  • Quantitative subject (e.g. statistics)

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  • Common blood pressure medication linked to increase risk of lung cancer;


Research students

PhD area Hormonal medications, sex hormones, inflammatory factors and cancer risk
Name Niamh Doherty
Years of study 2020-2023
Country United Kingdom
   
PhD area (Joint with the NIH, USA): Modelling multivariate time series of biomedical signals by compressed signal extraction – a neural computing approach
Name Lee Mason
Years of study 2020-2024
Country United Kingdom
   
PhD area An evaluation of the utilization and safety of antacids in patients diagnosed with Barrett's oesophagus
Name Tuce Hazal Tekin
Years of study 2021-2024
Country Türkiye

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