Louisa Koschny
l.koschny.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Research title: Evaluating the impact of minimum unit pricing on alcohol consumption and harm using record linked datasets
Research summary
Louisa is a doctoral researcher in the School of Health & Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow, funded by the ESRC through the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science. Her work focuses on improving the validity of estimates of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm in Scotland by addressing the substantial biases that arise in survey data. Using linked Scottish Health Survey, hospitalisation, and mortality records, she develops and applies Bayesian and other advanced statistical methods to correct for nonresponse and measurement error, with the aim of recovering more accurate population distributions of alcohol use.
A key strand of her research involves evaluating how policy interventions - like Scotland's Minimum Unit Pricing - affect different demographic and socioeconomic groups once these biases are accounted for. More broadly, her work contributes to methodological innovation in the use of linked administrative and survey data for public health evaluation.
She holds an Honours degree in Sociology with Quantitative Methods from the University of Glasgow.
