Roberta Piroddi
@roberta-piroddi.bsky.social
Engineer passionate about Public Health and Health Data | Tenure Track Fellow at the University of Liverpool Institute of Population Health
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New research from @healthequals.bsky.social finds that 15 million people in the UK live in homes with issues like damp, cold or mould. The impact on our mental health as well as our physical health can be devastating, causing respiratory symptoms, depression and anxiety.
November 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
New research from @healthequals.bsky.social finds that 15 million people in the UK live in homes with issues like damp, cold or mould. The impact on our mental health as well as our physical health can be devastating, causing respiratory symptoms, depression and anxiety.
Thank you so much to the wonderful @mhrincubator.bsky.social for making it possible for us #mentalhealth early career researchers to get such outstanding support - absolutely fantastic!
Also thanks to @gladlib.bsky.social for making it a special place and @nihr.bsky.social for investing in us
Also thanks to @gladlib.bsky.social for making it a special place and @nihr.bsky.social for investing in us
July 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Thank you so much to the wonderful @mhrincubator.bsky.social for making it possible for us #mentalhealth early career researchers to get such outstanding support - absolutely fantastic!
Also thanks to @gladlib.bsky.social for making it a special place and @nihr.bsky.social for investing in us
Also thanks to @gladlib.bsky.social for making it a special place and @nihr.bsky.social for investing in us
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The Civic Health Innovation Labs (CHIL) recently hosted a 3-day global event in Liverpool highlighting the principles and frameworks for responsible data governance and new developments in the sphere of digital commons ▶️ bit.ly/43PrWOi
@civicdatacoop.bsky.social
@livunichil.bsky.social
@civicdatacoop.bsky.social
@livunichil.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The Civic Health Innovation Labs (CHIL) recently hosted a 3-day global event in Liverpool highlighting the principles and frameworks for responsible data governance and new developments in the sphere of digital commons ▶️ bit.ly/43PrWOi
@civicdatacoop.bsky.social
@livunichil.bsky.social
@civicdatacoop.bsky.social
@livunichil.bsky.social
So grateful for these reflections, the whole
🧵and linked substack
relevant to many life journeys, not just academic work and new 🔑word for me to think about:
skillpower
🧵and linked substack
relevant to many life journeys, not just academic work and new 🔑word for me to think about:
skillpower
My sabbatical leave allowed me to reflect on my professional life.
As I’ve stepped into more senior roles in academia (plus gotten a bit older), I often get asked:
“How do you keep writing academic articles, policy work, opinion pieces, while juggling everything else?”
My answer: skillpower
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As I’ve stepped into more senior roles in academia (plus gotten a bit older), I often get asked:
“How do you keep writing academic articles, policy work, opinion pieces, while juggling everything else?”
My answer: skillpower
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April 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
So grateful for these reflections, the whole
🧵and linked substack
relevant to many life journeys, not just academic work and new 🔑word for me to think about:
skillpower
🧵and linked substack
relevant to many life journeys, not just academic work and new 🔑word for me to think about:
skillpower
📢Citizens Advice Liverpool (CAL) won the Tackling Health Inequality award at the North West Coast Innovation event👇for their Citizens Advice on Prescription service, which we evaluated + found likely improved mental health @livunihipr.bsky.social @livunichil.bsky.social @citizensadvice.bsky.social
Awards hosted by NIHR ARC North West Coast and Health Innovation North West Coast. Well done all - winners and nominees 👏
and organisers @nihrarcs.bsky.social
Read here: 👇
www.nwcawards.co.uk
and organisers @nihrarcs.bsky.social
Read here: 👇
www.nwcawards.co.uk
North West Coast Academic Health Science Awards
The annual North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards awards honour those individuals and organisations that have made the greatest impact in the development and delivery of innovation and resear...
www.nwcawards.co.uk
April 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
📢Citizens Advice Liverpool (CAL) won the Tackling Health Inequality award at the North West Coast Innovation event👇for their Citizens Advice on Prescription service, which we evaluated + found likely improved mental health @livunihipr.bsky.social @livunichil.bsky.social @citizensadvice.bsky.social
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Such an important research paper this. Grateful to all my colleagues who got this work over the line and proud to have been involved. This is essential reading for all with an interest in mental health and its treatment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The impacts of Liverpool Citizen's Advice on Prescription (CAP) on mental health outcomes– an Instrumental Variable (IV) approach
www.sciencedirect.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Such an important research paper this. Grateful to all my colleagues who got this work over the line and proud to have been involved. This is essential reading for all with an interest in mental health and its treatment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New paper out: The impacts of Liverpool Citizen's Advice on Prescription (CAP) on mental health outcomes – an Instrumental Variable (IV) approach, with Aregawi Gebremariam, @benjaminbarr.bsky.social @rhiannoncor.bsky.social @kdaras.bsky.social 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The impacts of Liverpool Citizen's Advice on Prescription (CAP) on mental health outcomes– an Instrumental Variable (IV) approach
www.sciencedirect.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
New paper out: The impacts of Liverpool Citizen's Advice on Prescription (CAP) on mental health outcomes – an Instrumental Variable (IV) approach, with Aregawi Gebremariam, @benjaminbarr.bsky.social @rhiannoncor.bsky.social @kdaras.bsky.social 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🎉well done and so richly deserved, Davara, working on inequalities in children entering care @livunihipr.bsky.social
#TeamLivUni
#TeamLivUni
Congratulations to Dr Davara Bennett - shortlisted for the #NIHRImpactPrizes in the early career researcher category for her research to improve understanding of inequalities in children entering care in England.
➡️ bit.ly/4iAScR7
#TeamLivUni
➡️ bit.ly/4iAScR7
#TeamLivUni
March 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🎉well done and so richly deserved, Davara, working on inequalities in children entering care @livunihipr.bsky.social
#TeamLivUni
#TeamLivUni
And talking about data -> action, this new @livunichil.bsky.social podcast is so exciting! Looking forward to it @edmhill.bsky.social + Sam
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1/ 🎧 New podcast series: ‘Health Data Decoded’ 🎧 #IDSky #EpiSky #SciComm
🎙️ A @livunichil.bsky.social podcast discussing how we can use civic data to improve public health
🗓️ First full episode scheduled to release on Fri 28 Mar 2025!
👥 Co-hosted by myself & Sam Ball, short trailer now available 👇
🎙️ A @livunichil.bsky.social podcast discussing how we can use civic data to improve public health
🗓️ First full episode scheduled to release on Fri 28 Mar 2025!
👥 Co-hosted by myself & Sam Ball, short trailer now available 👇
Health Data Decoded: Trailer
Health Data Decoded · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
And talking about data -> action, this new @livunichil.bsky.social podcast is so exciting! Looking forward to it @edmhill.bsky.social + Sam
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Great to see more data -> action
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Inspired by Vietnam’s vision and ambition for health and care evolution with civic data approaches. We hosted colleagues from Ho Chi Minh twice at CHIL @livunichil.bsky.social in the past year and have the pleasure of detailed work with colleagues here this week #DataSavesLives
March 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Great to see more data -> action
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Inspiring 👏
🎉 Thank you to all the residents who took part in the LCR Residents' Assembly on Data & AI Innovation! 🎉
Over the last few weeks, we’ve explored:
🔍 How data and AI are used in the Liverpool City Region with a key focus in the first week on learning
Over the last few weeks, we’ve explored:
🔍 How data and AI are used in the Liverpool City Region with a key focus in the first week on learning
March 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Inspiring 👏
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To learn more about the Child of the North campaign, its series of reports which seek to put the interests and life chances of children and young people at the heart of policymaking, and how delivering on these plans is crucial to Britain’s future, visit tinyurl.com/y28y33p6.
Child of the North 2024/25 Campaign - N8 Research Partnership
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March 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
To learn more about the Child of the North campaign, its series of reports which seek to put the interests and life chances of children and young people at the heart of policymaking, and how delivering on these plans is crucial to Britain’s future, visit tinyurl.com/y28y33p6.
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Our new report - led by @n8research.bsky.social and @healthequitynorth.bsky.social and @annelongfield.bsky.social's @cfyounglives.bsky.social - warns the talents of millions of children are being ignored and calls for creativity to be embedded into an inclusive school curriculum tinyurl.com/2eca46yb
Child of the North/Centre for Young Lives report calls for ‘Britain’s kids have got talent’ drive in schools to boost opportunity and stop the pipeline of pop stars, actors and creatives becoming the ...
A new report published today (Friday 14th March) by Child of the North and the Centre for Young Lives, An evidence-based approach to creating a culture of inclusive opportunity through arts and creati...
tinyurl.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Our new report - led by @n8research.bsky.social and @healthequitynorth.bsky.social and @annelongfield.bsky.social's @cfyounglives.bsky.social - warns the talents of millions of children are being ignored and calls for creativity to be embedded into an inclusive school curriculum tinyurl.com/2eca46yb
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📢 Are you a #UK #HealthcareProfessional managing patients with #KidneyDisease, #HighBloodPressure, #Diabetes or #Lupus?
👩⚕️ We want to hear what information/education you deliver about #kidneys, & anything that helped or hindered you.
🔗 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/ph...
🙌 Thank you!
👩⚕️ We want to hear what information/education you deliver about #kidneys, & anything that helped or hindered you.
🔗 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/ph...
🙌 Thank you!
March 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
📢 Are you a #UK #HealthcareProfessional managing patients with #KidneyDisease, #HighBloodPressure, #Diabetes or #Lupus?
👩⚕️ We want to hear what information/education you deliver about #kidneys, & anything that helped or hindered you.
🔗 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/ph...
🙌 Thank you!
👩⚕️ We want to hear what information/education you deliver about #kidneys, & anything that helped or hindered you.
🔗 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/ph...
🙌 Thank you!
And more brilliant people doing amazing stuff
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Congratulations to our Chief Executive, Trish Bennett and Assistant Chief Executive, Alison Walshe for being named in the Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) Top 400 Women for driving innovation to mark #InternationalWomensDay 👏🏽
Visit - bit.ly/3DuWhqY
#NorthInnovationWomen #AccelerateAction
Visit - bit.ly/3DuWhqY
#NorthInnovationWomen #AccelerateAction
March 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
And more brilliant people doing amazing stuff
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from Uni here 👇
Over 20 University of Liverpool colleagues make the annual #NorthInnovationWomen list! Find out about the amazing #LivUni researchers who are pushing the boundaries of innovation in their work.
👉 www.liverpool.ac.uk/postgraduate...
👉 www.liverpool.ac.uk/postgraduate...
March 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
from Uni here 👇
Made the list of #northinnovationwomen of NHSA. Surprised+happy to be with so many friends from @livunihipr.bsky.social, @livuni-iph.bsky.social and @livunichil.bsky.social 2025 theme was health inequalities work - list of Uni colleagues
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news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/03/10/c...
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news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/03/10/c...
Over 20 University of Liverpool colleagues make the annual #NorthInnovationWomen list - University of Liverpool News
Over 20 University of Liverpool colleagues make the annual #NorthInnovationWomen list
news.liverpool.ac.uk
March 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Made the list of #northinnovationwomen of NHSA. Surprised+happy to be with so many friends from @livunihipr.bsky.social, @livuni-iph.bsky.social and @livunichil.bsky.social 2025 theme was health inequalities work - list of Uni colleagues
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news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/03/10/c...
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news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/03/10/c...
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This is what I've been up to for the last couple of days. Really brilliant to spend a couple of days listening to and learning from people about what they want data and AI to do/be used for. A couple of quick reflections
Welcome to Day 2 of the LCR Residents' Assembly on Data & AI Innovation!
Today we're diving into the complexities of AI trade-offs, led by the brilliant @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social from @carefultrouble.bsky.social 🤖⚖️
Looking forward to more insightful discussions about AI use in our region today!
Today we're diving into the complexities of AI trade-offs, led by the brilliant @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social from @carefultrouble.bsky.social 🤖⚖️
Looking forward to more insightful discussions about AI use in our region today!
March 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is what I've been up to for the last couple of days. Really brilliant to spend a couple of days listening to and learning from people about what they want data and AI to do/be used for. A couple of quick reflections
Yesterday, with @livunichil.bsky.social colleagues, I shared knowledge of using quasi-experiments to answer difficult questions in real-world with 50+ nhs+loc gov analysts. Huge privilege for me and example of mobilising data+skills to build learning health systems, cutting time to innovation
March 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Yesterday, with @livunichil.bsky.social colleagues, I shared knowledge of using quasi-experiments to answer difficult questions in real-world with 50+ nhs+loc gov analysts. Huge privilege for me and example of mobilising data+skills to build learning health systems, cutting time to innovation
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Welcome to Day 2 of the LCR Residents' Assembly on Data & AI Innovation!
Today we're diving into the complexities of AI trade-offs, led by the brilliant @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social from @carefultrouble.bsky.social 🤖⚖️
Looking forward to more insightful discussions about AI use in our region today!
Today we're diving into the complexities of AI trade-offs, led by the brilliant @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social from @carefultrouble.bsky.social 🤖⚖️
Looking forward to more insightful discussions about AI use in our region today!
March 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Welcome to Day 2 of the LCR Residents' Assembly on Data & AI Innovation!
Today we're diving into the complexities of AI trade-offs, led by the brilliant @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social from @carefultrouble.bsky.social 🤖⚖️
Looking forward to more insightful discussions about AI use in our region today!
Today we're diving into the complexities of AI trade-offs, led by the brilliant @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social from @carefultrouble.bsky.social 🤖⚖️
Looking forward to more insightful discussions about AI use in our region today!
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A big thank you to all the residents who attended the LCR Residents' Assembly on Data & AI Innovation today as we look to answer our question “What does trustworthy and beneficial data and AI innovation look like for the Liverpool City Region?”
More info: civicdatacooperative.com/residents-as...
More info: civicdatacooperative.com/residents-as...
March 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A big thank you to all the residents who attended the LCR Residents' Assembly on Data & AI Innovation today as we look to answer our question “What does trustworthy and beneficial data and AI innovation look like for the Liverpool City Region?”
More info: civicdatacooperative.com/residents-as...
More info: civicdatacooperative.com/residents-as...
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Inspired by Liverpool City Region residents at today's Assembly. Mobilising data into action well becomes real in health systems where organisations are accountable to one another and to the residents they serve - a national grid of civic data & AI is overdue - see: www.thenhsa.co.uk/app/uploads/...
March 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Inspired by Liverpool City Region residents at today's Assembly. Mobilising data into action well becomes real in health systems where organisations are accountable to one another and to the residents they serve - a national grid of civic data & AI is overdue - see: www.thenhsa.co.uk/app/uploads/...
I am mad about data, and work with lots of teams sharing the madness. A bunch of us Northerners, inspired by @profbuchan.bsky.social, wrote of working together as big team of Unis, NHS, local gov, charities and citizens to use data+combined skills to innovate.
👉 www.thenhsa.co.uk/app/uploads/...
👉 www.thenhsa.co.uk/app/uploads/...
www.thenhsa.co.uk
March 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I am mad about data, and work with lots of teams sharing the madness. A bunch of us Northerners, inspired by @profbuchan.bsky.social, wrote of working together as big team of Unis, NHS, local gov, charities and citizens to use data+combined skills to innovate.
👉 www.thenhsa.co.uk/app/uploads/...
👉 www.thenhsa.co.uk/app/uploads/...
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On Tuesday we launched our Greater Data programme with our colleagues at Capacity and NHS C&M with a workshop focused on unlocking the potential of expert practitioners in children’s workforce.
Thank you to everyone who attended and to all of our excellent speakers.
Thank you to everyone who attended and to all of our excellent speakers.
February 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
On Tuesday we launched our Greater Data programme with our colleagues at Capacity and NHS C&M with a workshop focused on unlocking the potential of expert practitioners in children’s workforce.
Thank you to everyone who attended and to all of our excellent speakers.
Thank you to everyone who attended and to all of our excellent speakers.
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Social Return on Investment (SROI) Evaluation of Citizens Advice on Prescription: A Whole-Systems Approach to Mitigating Poverty and Improving Wellbeing . www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/22...
Social Return on Investment (SROI) Evaluation of Citizens Advice on Prescription: A Whole-Systems Approach to Mitigating Poverty and Improving Wellbeing
Citizens Advice on Prescription (CAP), a Liverpool (UK)-based service, provides welfare advice and link worker social prescription support to people experiencing and at risk of experiencing financial ...
www.mdpi.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Social Return on Investment (SROI) Evaluation of Citizens Advice on Prescription: A Whole-Systems Approach to Mitigating Poverty and Improving Wellbeing . www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/22...