Dr Ireneous Soyiri

Dr Ireneous Soyiri

Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • Hull York Medical School

Qualifications

  • PhD / DPhil

Summary

Dr. Ireneous N. Soyiri (Soyiri) is a Senior Lecturer (Epidemiology and Applied Health Research Methods) in the Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (FSS), a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH), and holds membership of a number of esteemed professional groups, including the International Society for Environmental Epidemiologists (ISEE).

Soyiri was educated at the University of Ghana, Brunel University London and Monash University. Following his postgraduate Public Health training in Epidemiology and Biostatistics (with special interest in Health Forecasting) at Brunel University London (2010) and Monash University (2012), he continued his academic career and worked with Monash University Malaysia as a Lecturer. Whilst at Malaysia he joined the South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO), which had just been founded and was beginning an exciting community public health research platform in the SEA region based in Peninsula Malaysia. Working with SEACO as a Statistician was an exciting time to engage with communities but also explore and develop quantitative approaches to examine data quality and analyse population health records.

He subsequently worked with the University of Edinburgh as a Research Fellow at the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences & Informatics, and Statistician to the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR), with responsibility to support developments in research platforms within AUKCAR. Soyiri continues to work in areas of Population Health Sciences, with a focus on research design, quantitative analyses and the development of research methodologies that will help shed light on the burden of diseases in large populations.

In the Hull York Medical School (HYMS), he is a member of the Institute of Clinical and Applied Health Research (ICAHR), and belongs to a number of research groups within the University of Hull. Through his professional works and intellectual contributions, Soyiri maintains links with academic collaborators globally and is keen on research in areas of Population Health.

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Breathlessness without borders: a call to action for global breathlessness research

Clark, J. D., Binnie, K., Bond, M., Crooks, M., Currow, D. C., Curry, J., Elsey, H., Habib, M., Hutchinson, A., Soyiri, I., Johnson, M. J., Nair, S., Rao, S., Siqueira-Filha, N., Spathis, A., & Williams, S. (2024). Breathlessness without borders: a call to action for global breathlessness research. NPJ Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 34(1), Article 26. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-024-00384-9

The state of health in the European Union (EU-27) in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019

Santos, J. V., Padron-Monedero, A., Bikbov, B., Grad, D. A., Plass, D., Mechili, E. A., Gazzelloni, F., Fischer, F., Sulo, G., Ngwa, C. H., Noguer-Zambrano, I., Peñalvo, J. L., Haagsma, J. A., Kissimova-Skarbek, K., Monasta, L., Ghith, N., Sarmiento-Suárez, R., Hrzic, R., Haneef, R., O'caoimh, R., …Soyiri, I. N. (2024). The state of health in the European Union (EU-27) in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019. BMC public health, 24(1), Article 1374. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18529-3

Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Brauer, M., Roth, G. A., & Soyiri, I. (2024). Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet, 403(10440), 2162-2203. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2824%2900933-4

Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Vollset, S. E., Ababneh, H. S., Abate, Y. H., Abbafati, C., Abbasgholizadeh, R., Abbasian, M., Abbastabar, H., Abd Al Magied, A. H., Abd ElHafeez, S., Abdelkader, A., Abdelmasseh, M., Abd-Elsalam, S., Abdi, P., Abdollahi, M., Abdoun, M., Abdullahi, A., Abebe, M., Abiodun, O., Aboagye, R. G., Abolhassani, H., …Soyiri, I. (2024). Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet, 403(10440), 2204-2256. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2824%2900685-8

Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Naghavi, M., Ong, K. L., & Soyiri, I. (2024). Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet, 403(10440), 2100-2132. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2824%2900367-2

Research interests

My areas of interests include Environmental Epidemiology and Population Health. More specifically, estimating the Burden of Diseases across populations, modelling and forecasting healthcare demand such as hospital admissions using routinely collected quantitative data.

I have worked on a number of health surveillance systems around the world, but also dedicated to finding local solutions to public health challenges in my current role.

In addition to performing academic duties (research, teaching and supervising students’ research dissertations), I have expertise and interest in developing research databases for population health surveillance, quantitative data analyses and evaluating Public Health programmes.

Research Fields:

Air Pollution and Health, Asthma, Biostatistics, Environment, Epidemiology, Health Care Sciences & Services, Health Forecasting, Hospital Admissions, Length of Stay, Population Health, Respiratory Health, Statistical Methods, Weather and Health

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Levelling Up Hull: Assessing and Addressing the Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities for Hull Programme Scope and Outline for Delivery

Funder

HCC Hull City Council

Grant

£40,000.00

Started

14 June 2021

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

If you are interested in pursuing PhD at HYMS, and/ considering a PhD by Published Work, do not hesitate to contact me for a chat (Please use this link to schedule a meeting https://doodle.com/bp/soyiri/meeting).

Committee/Steering group role

Member - Financial Inclusion Network, HCC

2022

Chair of Postgraduate Board of Examination, HYMS

2021 - 2024

Member - Health Inequalities Innovation Hub, HCC

2020

Deputy Chair of Postgraduate Board of Examination, HYMS

2019 - 2021

Journal editorial role

Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports, Nature Portfolio

2022

Scientific Reports, Nature Portfolio

Membership/Fellowship of professional body

Member of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)

2021

International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)

Member of the John Snow Society

2019

The John Snow Society

Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society

2016

FSS

Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health

2010 - 2020

FRSPH

National/International learned society/body role

Committee Member, ISEE Ethics and Philosophy Committee

2024

The International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), is a scientific association in environmental epidemiology that impacts research, training and policy worldwide. See: https://iseepi.org/ The Ethics and Philosophy Committee of ISEE comes to the aid of colleagues who have been attacked for demonstrating epidemiological associations that proved problematic to powerful stakeholders, or for proposing questions that powerful stakeholders might not want to be addressed. The Committee was founded in 1991 and aims to strengthen and promote ethics and philosophy in environmental epidemiology. See: https://iseepi.org/ethics_and_philosophy_committe.php

Other

GBD Senior Collaborator

2024

GBD Senior Collaborator

GBD Collaborator

2017 - 2024

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington engages a large network of individual collaborators with specialties in various topic areas of expertise to conduct the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) and its affiliated research projects. The GBD is a systematic, scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and geographies for specific points in time. It is the largest, most comprehensive effort to date to measure epidemiological levels and trends worldwide. This study allows decision-makers to compare the effects of different health conditions. The GBD has generated substantial scientific, policy, and even public interest across many different countries.

Scholarship role

Academic Adviser - Commonwealth Scholarship Commission UK

2023

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