缅北禁地

I am a research associate at the 缅北禁地 Population Health Sciences Institute. I am part of the Health Inequalities Team, conducting research on place-based health inequalities. I am also a Health Equity North affiliated researcher.

A geospatial data scientist by background, I have extensive expertise in the use of geographical information systems (GIS) in public health. I am primarily interested in the complex interplay between social, spatial and health inequalities, spatial determinants of health and climate as an emerging facet of inequalities.

As an early career researcher, I have been awarded over £106,000 in research funding as principal investigator and £478,668 in collaborative grants. My research has been featured in over 130 pieces of media, including The Guardian, , , and I have expertise in engaging with MPs and other stakeholders, and I have been invited to contribute to parliamentary inquiries.

Selected funding:

2026:

• NIHR Three Schools Prevention Research Programme Career Development Award [£32,731] Prevention of hospital admission during heatwaves (12 months 2026-2027)

2025:

• Insights North East QR Policy Fund [£5000] Defining the Challenge Workshop with Gateshead Council around adaptive strategies during heatwaves
• NIHR Patient Safety Research Collaboration (PSRC) [£16,895] Pre-application Support Award for a Climate Change related fellowship application (12 months 2025-2026)
• NIHR Specialist Centre for Public Health RSS [£600] Climate change Public Engagement Award

2024:

• Faculty of Medical Sciences Policy Engagement Award [£10,000]– Woman of the North Dissemination and events

2023:

• Faculty of Medical Sciences Research Excellence Development Award -[£7899] The effects of climate change related severe weather events on health inequalities in the UK: An interdisciplinary perspective  

Recently invited presentations:

2025:

• NHS England Medicines and Pharmacy Journal Club at the Chief Pharmaceutical Office – invited to speak about our published paper The Positive Pharmacy Care Law Revisited: an area-level analysis of the relationship between community pharmacy distribution, urbanicity and deprivation in England

2024

• Woman of the North Roundtable – Invited to speak about the findings as highlighted author and participate in a private roundtable with MPs and Regional Mayors
•  Woman of the North Parliamentary Launch Event – Invited to speak about the findings as highlighted author to MPs and invited organisations
• House of Lords Built Environment Committee Private Seminar – invited to shape the Terms of Reference for the Lords BEC High Streets Inquiry and subsequently submitted written evidence

2023:

• The Future of Cities Webinar Series held by the EU Joint Research Centre and the Regional Studies Association (JRC-RSA) on the topic of Cities Fit for The Digital Age. Talk titled Decisions and Deserts: Tools to Help Cities Be Smart and Equitable

I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) and a member of the Regional Studies Association (RSA) and Society for Social Medicine & Population Health.

My main areas of expertise are place-based research in population health, research informed policy and decision-making, and spatial modelling and statistical analysis of built and natural environments. I have worked on modelling the built and natural environment around individuals in cohort studies, developing measures of environment and performing statistical analysis to uncover the influence of the environment on health. I have also worked on the development of a decision making support tool for stakeholders to decide on optimised air quality sensor placement in the city.

I am currently working on two projects:

• The Impact of Climate related severe weather on health outcomes, which uses medical records in CPRD (Clinical Practice Research Datalink), census data and indicators of environmental deprivation to examine the associations between recent severe weather events on health within the framework of intersecting place based health inequalities
• "Ghost Towns" which aims to create a comprehensive overview of the changes in amenities over the last decade in cities, towns and high streets, and study the relationship of such decline on health outcomes.

Previously, I have worked on the project "Impact of the Environment and Pollution on Cognitive Health" (EPOCH) and I was a Research Associate at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) on the project "Spatial Inequality in the Smart City". I completed my PhD in Architecture and Built Environment (ABE) at Northumbria University, 缅北禁地 Upon Tyne in 2021 and a BSc (Hons) in Architectural Engineering and Environmental Design at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt in 2016.

I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) and I have taught on a number of varied modules in both social determinants of health and environmental design. I have experience in supervising MPH and MPharm students on a variety of topics.

I have contributed lectures for the Social Determinants of Health module (MPH8004), guest lectures around climate change and health inequalities, and measuring the built environment for public health research.

• Articles

  • Abozied EZ, Munford L, Todd A, Bambra C. . Social Science & Medicine 2026, 390, 118863.
  • Zied Abozied E, Munford L, Copeland A, Kasim A, Husband A, Bambra C, Todd A. . BMJ Open 2025, 15, e095540.
  • Wu YT, Beevers S, Barratt B, Brayne C, Cerin E, Franklin R, Houlden V, Woods B, Zied Abozied E, Prina M, Matthews F. . Preventive Medicine 2025, 198, 108348.
  • Zied Abozied E, Robinson C, Franklin RS, Court K, Roberts J. . The Geographical Journal 2025, 191(1), e12605.
  • Wu YT, Kitwiroon N, Beevers S, Barratt B, Brayne C, Cerin E, Franklin R, Houlden V, Woods B, Zied Abozied E, Prina M, Matthews F. . BMC Public Health 2024, 24, 1233.
  • Zied E, Vialard A. . Regional Studies, Regional Science 2020, 7(1), 333-345.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Zied Abozied E, Park G, Bambra C. . In: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference. 2025, University of Birmingham: Royal Geographical Society with IBG.
  • Zied Abozied E, Wu Y, Matthews F. . In: Alzheimer's Association International Conference. 2023, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Zied Abozied E, Vialard A. . In: 13th International Space Syntax Symposium (13SSS). 2022, Bergen, Norway: 13SSS.
  • Zied E, Vialard A, Dalton R. . In: 12th International Symposium on Space Syntax. 2019, Beijing, China: Beijing Jiaotong University.
  • Zied E, Vialard A, Dalton R. . In: 25th International Seminar on Urban Form: Urban Form and Social Context. 2018, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation.
  • Zied E, Vialard A. . In: 11th International Space Syntax Symposium (SSS11). 2017, Lisbon, Portugal: CERIS.

• Online Publications

  • Zied Abozied E, Munford L, Todd A, Davies H, Bambra C. . 2024. Available at: .
  • Zied Abozied E. . Brighton: Regional Studies Association, 2022. Available at: .

• Reports

  • Zied Abozied E, Munford L, Todd A, Davies H, Bambra C. . Health Equity North and the Northern Health Science Alliance, 2025.
  • Zied Abozied E, Franklin RS, Houlden V, Wu YT, Matthews FE. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 2024.