Dr Nasloon Ali
Lecturer
Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences
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Biography
Nasloon Ali is an epidemiologist from Singapore and a brand-new lecturer at the School of Health Sciences and the Mother, Infant and Child Health unit. Her journey starts in the University of Dundee itself where she did an MPH and returned to Singapore to work as an epidemiologist studying health outcomes and medical education. She then left for the United Arab Emirates where she will stay for 7 years leading a maternal and child health cohort called Mutaba’ah (which means to follow up) which now consists of 15,000 mothers and the children born in the cohort.
Research
Her expertise and interests lie in everything maternal and child health. In Mutaba’ah, Nasloon was the lead researcher and data manager and was privileged to work on numerous topics affecting Emirati women. Nasloon’s doctoral thesis was on recurrent miscarriage and its effects on future pregnancy behaviours and outcomes. Other than that, she was privileged to work on many other aspects of maternal and child health in the cohort including but not limited to:
- Perinatal mental health
- Health literacy in pregnant women
- Gestational diabetes mellitus
- Antenatal care access and leverage
- Gestational weight gain
- Mood and happiness in pregnancy
- Poor delivery outcomes
- Supplement usage pre and during pregnancy
- Breastfeeding
- Environmental and passive smoking and its effects in pregnancy and birth
During the pandemic, she also had a stint with AstraZeneca understanding drug efficacy in children and adults with severe asthma. As the data manager for a major cohort, Nasloon is passionate about good data quality for great research output such as the sanitization and dissemination of data and good data analytics. She has experiences in the use of mixed methods research for the best understanding and interpretation of maternal and child health issues. As a new member of the Mother, Infant and Child health unit, Nasloon wishes to take part in all aspects of maternal and child health and support the team to the best of her ability. She also is interested in continuing her research on perinatal loss and its effects in other cohorts.