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  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2003 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Andrew Steptoe is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Psychology, and Social Sciences, with a strong focus on Health, Clinical Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Their work addresses a range of topics such as Health disparities and outcomes, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Employment and Welfare Studies, and Health, psychology, and well-being.

Steptoe has contributed extensively to academic literature, publishing in notable venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Innovation in Aging, SSM Annual Scientific Meeting, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Scientific Reports.

Recent papers by Steptoe include:

  • Trajectories of anxiety and depressive symptoms during enforced isolation due to COVID-19 in England: a longitudinal observational study (2020, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Attitudes towards vaccines and intention to vaccinate against COVID-19: Implications for public health communications (2020, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe)
  • The path to healthy ageing in China: a Peking University-Lancet Commission (2022, The Lancet)
  • Who is lonely in lockdown? Cross-cohort analyses of predictors of loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, Public Health)
  • Long COVID burden and risk factors in 10 UK longitudinal studies and electronic health records (2022, Nature Communications)

The scientist frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Daisy Fancourt
  • Olesya Ajnakina
  • Feifei Bu
  • Dorina Cadar
  • César de Oliveira

Awards received by Steptoe include:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2003)
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Best Publications

  • Development of a Measure of the Motives Underlying the Selection of Food: the Food Choice Questionnaire

    Andrew Steptoe;Tessa M. Pollard;Jane Wardle

  • Social isolation, loneliness, and all-cause mortality in older men and women

    Andrew Steptoe;Aparna Shankar;Panayotes Demakakos;Jane Wardle

  • Subjective wellbeing, health, and ageing

    Andrew Steptoe;Angus Deaton;Arthur A Stone;Arthur A Stone

  • Positive psychological well-being and mortality: a quantitative review of prospective observational studies.

    Yoichi Chida;Andrew Steptoe

  • Gender Differences in Food Choice: The Contribution of Health Beliefs and Dieting

    Jane Wardle;Anne M. Haase;Andrew Steptoe;Maream Nillapun

  • Cohort Profile: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    Andrew Steptoe;Elizabeth Breeze;James Banks;James Nazroo

  • The effects of acute psychological stress on circulating inflammatory factors in humans: a review and meta-analysis.

    Andrew Steptoe;Mark Hamer;Yoichi Chida

  • Stress and cardiovascular disease

    Andrew Steptoe;Mika Kivimäki

  • Socioeconomic status and the 25 × 25 risk factors as determinants of premature mortality: a multicohort study and meta-analysis of 1·7 million men and women

    Silvia Stringhini;Cristian Carmeli;Markus Jokela;Mauricio Avendaño;Mauricio Avendaño

  • Do stress-related psychosocial factors contribute to cancer incidence and survival?

    Yoichi Chida;Mark Hamer;Jane Wardle;Andrew Steptoe

  • Grip strength across the life course: normative data from twelve British studies.

    Richard M. Dodds;Holly E. Syddall;Rachel Cooper;Michaela Benzeval

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data.

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Solja T. Nyberg;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson

  • Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Behavioral and Biological Health Indicators in Older Adults

    Aparna Shankar;Anne McMunn;James Banks;Andrew Steptoe

  • Cortisol awakening response and psychosocial factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Yoichi Chida;Andrew Steptoe

  • Effects of stress on the development and progression of cardiovascular disease

    Mika Kivimäki;Andrew Steptoe

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M L Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

  • Positive affect and health-related neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, and inflammatory processes

    Andrew Steptoe;Jane Wardle;Michael Marmot

  • The Association of Anger and Hostility With Future Coronary Heart Disease : A Meta-Analytic Review of Prospective Evidence

    Yoichi Chida;Andrew Steptoe

  • Attitudes towards vaccines and intention to vaccinate against COVID-19: Implications for public health communications

    Elise Paul;Andrew Steptoe;Daisy Fancourt

  • Trajectories of anxiety and depressive symptoms during enforced isolation due to COVID-19 in England: a longitudinal observational study.

    Daisy Fancourt;Andrew Steptoe;Feifei Bu

  • Greater Cardiovascular Responses to Laboratory Mental Stress Are Associated With Poor Subsequent Cardiovascular Risk Status A Meta-Analysis of Prospective Evidence

    Yoichi Chida;Andrew Steptoe

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease

    Mika Kivimäki;Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;Eleonor I Fransson

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M. L. Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

Frequent Co-Authors

Jane Wardle
Jane Wardle University College London
Mark Hamer
Mark Hamer University College London
Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Daisy Fancourt
Daisy Fancourt University College London
Michael Marmot
Michael Marmot University College London
G. David Batty
G. David Batty University College London
Jussi Vahtera
Jussi Vahtera Turku University Hospital
Lars Alfredsson
Lars Alfredsson Karolinska Institute
Jane E. Ferrie
Jane E. Ferrie University College London

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