Dr Snehal M. Pinto Pereira is a lecturer in Population Health and Applied Statistics in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at University College London. She is a statistical epidemiologist by training and holds an MRC Career Development Award (2017-2023). Prior to this, at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, she examined lifetime influences on adiposity and physical activity trajectories, health consequences of these trajectories and long-term effects of early-life adversity.

Snehal has an interest in understanding how specific child maltreatments (abuse and neglect) are related, via certain pathways, to outcomes in adulthood. Her research is underpinned by a strong methodological foundation that aims to make the best use of existing data resources and addresses public health needs with impact on national policy and practice.

Snehal has a BSc (Hons) in Actuarial Sciences from City, University of London and an MSc in Medical Statistics and PhD in Epidemiology, both form the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She has co-authored four reports for the UK Government Department of Health and Social Care and her work has been cited by both government and charity organisations, for example the NSPCC’s report ‘The Economic Costs of Child Maltreatment in the UK.’ She is committed to knowledge transfer and passionate about widely disseminating her findings, regularly publishing blogposts and podcasts discussing her work.