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I am a psychiatric epidemiologist with a background in health economics and health policy. My research focuses on understanding early life risk factors for eating disorders integrating the use of biological measurements and large general population samples with novel causal inference approaches for observational epidemiology.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Health Policy
• ☆ Healthcare
• ☆ Epidemiology
• ☆ Eating Disorders

Services

• Writing
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Work Experience

Senior Research Fellow

University College London

October 2019 - Present

Research associate

University College London

September 2015 - September 2019

Research Associate

University College London

2014 - 2015

Education

PhD

Institute of Child Health (UCL)

October 2010 - February 2014

MSc Epidemiology

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

2008 - 2010

Johns Hopkins University Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

2006 - 2008

University of Sussex

2003 - 2006

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2019). Polygenic risk for schizophrenia, disordered eating behaviours and body mass index in adolescents . The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science.

Irish M, Solmi F, Mars B, King M, Lewis G, Pearson RM, Pitman A, Rowe S, Srinivasan R(2018). Depression and self-harm from adolescence to young adulthood in sexual minorities compared with heterosexuals in the UK: a population-based cohort study . The Lancet. Child & adolescent health.

(2018). Cost-effectiveness of a domestic violence and abuse training and support programme in primary care in the real world: updated modelling based on an MRC phase IV observational pragmatic implementation study . BMJ open.

Solmi F, Mohammadi A, Perez JA, Hameed Y, Jones PB, Kirkbride JB(2018). Predictors of disengagement from Early Intervention in Psychosis services . The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science.

Solmi F, Melamed D, Lewis G, Kirkbride JB(2018). Longitudinal associations between psychotic experiences and disordered eating behaviours in adolescence: a UK population-based study . The Lancet. Child & adolescent health.

Solmi F, Morris S(2018). Overweight and obese pre-pregnancy BMI is associated with higher hospital costs of childbirth in England . BMC pregnancy and childbirth.

Solmi F, Melnychuk M, Morris S(2018). The cost of mental and physical health disability in childhood and adolescence to families in the UK: findings from a repeated cross-sectional survey using propensity score matching . BMJ Open.

Solmi F, Colman I, Weeks M, Lewis G, Kirkbride JB(2017). Trajectories of Neighborhood Cohesion in Childhood, and Psychotic and Depressive Symptoms at Age 13 and 18 Years . Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Melnychuk M, Solmi F, Morris S, The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care, 2017, 2017 .

Micali N, Horton NJ, Crosby RD, Swanson SA, Sonneville KR, Solmi F, Calzo JP, Eddy KT, Field AE, European child & adolescent psychiatry, 2017, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 231-240, 2017 .

Solmi F, Hayes JF, Lewis G, Kirkbride JB, Psychological medicine, 2017, 2017 .

Sheringham J, Solmi F, Ariti C, Baim-Lance A, Morris S, Fulop NJ, PloS one, 2017, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. e0174086, 2017 .

Raine R, Moss SM, von Wagner C, Atkin W, Hans IK, Howe R, Solmi F, Morris S, Counsell N, Hackshaw A, Halloran S, Handley G, Logan RF, Rainbow S, Smith S, Snowball J, Seaman H, Thomas M, Smith SG, McGregor LM, British journal of cancer, 2016, vol. 115, no. 12, pp. 1479-1486, 2016 .

Martini MG, Solmi F, Krug I, Karwautz A, Wagner G, Fernandez-Aranda F, Treasure J, Micali N, Archives of women's mental health, 2016, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 553-557, 2016 .

Solmi F, Hotopf M, Hatch SL, Treasure J, Micali N, Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2016, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 369-381, 2016 .

Raine R, Duffy SW, Wardle J, Solmi F, Morris S, Howe R, Kralj-Hans I, Snowball J, Counsell N, Moss S, Hackshaw A, von Wagner C, Vart G, McGregor LM, Smith SG, Halloran S, Handley G, Logan RF, Rainbow S, Smith S, British journal of cancer, 2016, vol. 114, no. 3, pp. 321-326, 2016 .

Micali N, Solmi F, Horton NJ, Crosby RD, Eddy KT, Calzo JP, Sonneville KR, Swanson SA, Field AE, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2015, vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 652-659.e1, 2015 .

Solmi F, Von Wagner C, Kobayashi LC, Raine R, Wardle J, Morris S, Social science & medicine (1982), 2015, vol. 134, pp. 76-86, 2015 .

Solmi F, Morris S, BMJ open, 2015, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. e007373, 2015 .

Solmi F, Hatch SL, Hotopf M, Treasure J, Micali N, The International journal of eating disorders, 2015, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 312-316, 2015 .

Solmi F, Sonneville KR, Easter A, Horton NJ, Crosby RD, Treasure J, Rodriguez A, Jarvelin MR, Field AE, Micali N, Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 2015, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 87-96, 2015 .

Easter A, Solmi F, Bye A, Taborelli E, Corfield F, Schmidt U, Treasure J, Micali N, European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association, 2015, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 19-27, 2015 .

Hamilton FL, Hornby J, Sheringham J, Kerry S, Linke S, Solmi F, Ashton C, Moore K, Murray E, Pilot and feasibility studies, 2015, vol. 1, pp. 28, 2015 .

Sonneville KR, Calzo JP, Horton NJ, Field AE, Crosby RD, Solmi F, Micali N, Psychological medicine, 2015, vol. 45, no. 12, pp. 2511-2520, 2015 .

Solmi F, Hatch SL, Hotopf M, Treasure J, Micali N, Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2014, vol. 49, no. 8, pp. 1335-1346, 2014 .

Solmi F, Sallis H, Stahl D, Treasure J, Micali N, Epidemiologic reviews, 2014, vol. 36, pp. 49-56, 2014 .

Kothari R, Solmi F, Treasure J, Micali N, Psychological medicine, 2013, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 1543-1554, 2013 .

Field AE, Sonneville KR, Micali N, Crosby RD, Swanson SA, Laird NM, Treasure J, Solmi F, Horton NJ, Pediatrics, 2012, vol. 130, no. 2, pp. e289-95, 2012 .

Raine R, Atkin W, von Wagner C, Duffy S, Kralj-Hans I, Hackshaw A, Counsell N, Moss S, McGregor L, Palmer C, Smith SG, Thomas M, Howe R, Vart G, Band R, Halloran SP, Snowball J, Stubbs N, Handley G, Wardle J, <i>Testing innovative strategies to reduce the social gradient in the uptake of bowel cancer screening: a programme of four qualitatively enhanced randomised controlled trials</i>, NIHR Journals Library, Southampton (UK), 2017 .