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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Petra Meier is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans topics within medicine and health professions, with a particular focus on substance abuse treatment and outcomes, health disparities and outcomes, and homelessness and social issues.

Their recent scholarly contributions include several papers published between 2020 and 2023. Notable works are:

  • Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review, 2021, Social Science & Medicine
  • Causal mechanisms proposed for the alcohol harm paradox-a systematic review, 2021, Addiction
  • Call for transparency of COVID-19 models, 2020, Science
  • The public health implications of the cost-of-living crisis: outlining mechanisms and modelling consequences, 2023, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • Economics for people and planet-moving beyond the neoclassical paradigm, 2022, The Lancet Planetary Health

Petra Meier frequently collaborates with several researchers including John Holmes, Colin Angus, Abigail K. Stevely, Alan Brennan, and Alessandro Sasso.

Their research has been published in a variety of venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Drug and Alcohol Review
  • Addiction
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Public Health

Their expertise is distributed across several subfields such as General Health Professions, Epidemiology, Health, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Economics and Econometrics.

Within these domains, their main topics of work include:

  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Demographic modeling and climate adaptation

Petra Meier has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Prevention of cardiovascular events and death with pravastatin in patients with coronary heart disease and a broad range of initial cholesterol levels

    A. Tonkin;P. Alyward;D. Colquhoun;P. Glasziou

  • The role of the therapeutic alliance in the treatment of substance misuse: a critical review of the literature.

    Petra S. Meier;Christine Barrowclough;Michael C. Donmall

  • Barriers and facilitators to implementing screening and brief intervention for alcohol misuse: a systematic review of qualitative evidence

    M. Johnson;R. Jackson;L. Guillaume;P. Meier

  • Effects of minimum unit pricing for alcohol on different income and socioeconomic groups: a modelling study

    John Holmes;Yang Meng;Petra S Meier;Alan Brennan

  • Estimated effect of alcohol pricing policies on health and health economic outcomes in England: an epidemiological model

    Robin C Purshouse;Petra S Meier;Alan Brennan;Karl B Taylor

  • Policy options for alcohol price regulation: the importance of modelling population heterogeneity

    Petra Sylvia Meier;Robin Purshouse;Alan Brennan

  • The role of the early therapeutic alliance in predicting drug treatment dropout.

    Petra S. Meier;Michael C. Donmall;Patrick McElduff;Christine Barrowclough

  • Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review.

    Elizabeth McGill;Vanessa Er;Tarra Penney;Matt Egan

  • Estimated Effects of Different Alcohol Taxation and Price Policies on Health Inequalities: A Mathematical Modelling Study

    Petra S. Meier;John Holmes;Colin Angus;Abdallah K. Ally

  • Disease burden and costs from excess alcohol consumption, obesity, and viral hepatitis: Fourth report of the Lancet Standing Commission on Liver Disease in the UK

    Roger Williams;Graeme Alexander;Iain Armstrong;Alastair Baker

  • All drinking is not equal: how a social practice theory lens could enhance public health research on alcohol and other health behaviours

    Petra Sylvia Meier;Alan Warde;John Holmes

  • Trend analysis and modelling of gender-specific age, period and birth cohort effects on alcohol abstention and consumption level for drinkers in Great Britain using the General Lifestyle Survey 1984–2009

    Yang Meng;John Holmes;Daniel Hill-McManus;Alan Brennan

  • Predicting the early therapeutic alliance in the treatment of drug misuse

    Petra S. Meier;Michael C. Donmall;Christine Barrowclough;Patrick McElduff

  • Unravelling the alcohol harm paradox: a population-based study of social gradients across very heavy drinking thresholds

    Dan Lewer;Petra Meier;Emma Beard;Sadie Boniface

  • Independent review of the effects of alcohol pricing and promotion: Part A. Systematic Reviews.

    Petra Meier

  • The temporal relationship between per capita alcohol consumption and harm: a systematic review of time lag specifications in aggregate time series analyses.

    John Holmes;Petra S. Meier;Andrew Booth;Yelan Guo

  • Estimation of own and cross price elasticities of alcohol demand in the UK--A pseudo-panel approach using the Living Costs and Food Survey 2001-2009.

    Yang Meng;Alan Brennan;Robin Purshouse;Daniel Hill-McManus

  • The public health implications of the cost-of-living crisis: outlining mechanisms and modelling consequences

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  • Developing a social practice-based typology of British drinking culture in 2009-2011: Implications for alcohol policy analysis

    Abdallah K. Ally;Melanie Lovatt;Petra S. Meier;Alan Brennan

  • Call for transparency of COVID-19 models.

    C. Michael Barton;Marina Alberti;Daniel Ames;Jo An Atkinson

  • The impact of spatial and temporal availability of alcohol on its consumption and related harms: A critical review in the context of UK licensing policies

    John Holmes;Yelan Guo;Ravi Maheswaran;James Nicholls

Frequent Co-Authors

John Holmes
John Holmes University of Sheffield
Alan Brennan
Alan Brennan University of Sheffield
Susan Michie
Susan Michie University College London
Jamie Brown
Jamie Brown University College London
Charles D. H. Parry
Charles D. H. Parry South African Medical Research Council
Eileen Kaner
Eileen Kaner Newcastle University
Anne Lingford-Hughes
Anne Lingford-Hughes Imperial College London
Anne Marie MacKintosh
Anne Marie MacKintosh University of Stirling
Christine Barrowclough
Christine Barrowclough University of Manchester
Sally Casswell
Sally Casswell Massey University

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