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Details for Professor Matthew Hickman
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Matthew Hickman |
| Job title | Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology & Head of Population Health Sciences |
| Department | Bristol Medical School (PHS) University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | B.Sc.(Lanc.), M.Sc.(Aberd.), Ph.D.(Lond.) |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | FFPHM (Hon) |
| Keywords | public health surveillance hcv epidemiology injecting drug use drug misuse epidemiology health consequences of drug use indirect estimation methods |
| Areas of expertise | My research is in the epidemiology of drug misuse and health consequences of drug misuse. These include epidemiology of HCV infection and other blood borne viruses among injecting drug users; and methods of estimating the size of drug user populations and measuring risk behaviour. General methods in public health surveillance. |