Project overview https://www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/research-areas/healthy-communities/completed-the-friend-tool-to-predict-childhood-obesity-and-provide-local-measures-of-poverty/ Staff Lead researchers Professor Dianna Smith Professor Research interests Small-area estimation for policy analysis Connect with Dianna Email: D.M.Smith@soton.ac.uk Professor Nisreen A Alwan MBE, MBChB, MRCP, FFPH, MPH, MSc, PhD, FHEA, PGCAP Professor of Public Health Research interests Public Health Lifecourse Epidemiology Long Covid Connect with Nisreen A Email: N.A.Alwan@soton.ac.uk Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups Population, Health and Wellbeing (PHeW) We combine expertise in population, health and wellbeing with the application of technical excellence in geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis and qualitative methods. Population Health Sciences We research prevention of disease, reduction of health inequalities and optimisation of health and wellbeing for whole populations across the lifecourse, in the UK and internationally. Research outputs