Tarani Chandola

Professor of Medical Sociology

Tel: 0161 306 6903

Tarani.Chandola@manchester.ac.uk

Room G.26
CCSR
School of Social Sciences
Humanities Bridgeford Street
University of Manchester
MANCHESTER, M13 9PL

 

Professional Biography

Tarani Chandola is Professor of Medical Sociology. He joined CCSR in April 2010 and was formerly at the UCL Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. His research is primarily on the social determinants of health, focussing on health inequalities and psychosocial factors, and the analysis of longitudinal cohort studies, He is a member of the Social Statistics committee of the Royal Statistical Society and will be co-director of Methods@Manchester.

 

Current Research Projects

Health inequalities in an ageing population: the Whitehall II study

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/whitehallII/

Spatial and social inequalities in health in Brazil and India: An ESRC Pathfinder Project

Lifecourse pathways between education, health and well-being: International Centre for Lifecourse Studies http://www.ucl.ac.uk/icls/education

 

Research Interests

• Explaining social inequalities in health
• Work stress and health
• The analysis of longitudinal cohort data

 

Publications:

Jokela M, Ferrie JE, Gimeno D, Chandola T, Shipley MJ, Head J, Vahtera J, Westerlund H, Marmot MG, Kivimäki M. (2010) From Midlife to Early Old Age: Health Trajectories Associated With Retirement. Epidemiology. 2010 Mar 9. [Epub ahead of print]

Kumari M, Badrick E, Sacker A, Kirschbaum C, Marmot M, Chandola T. (2010) Identifying patterns in cortisol secretion in an older population. Findings from the Whitehall II study.Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2010 Feb 17. [Epub ahead of print]

Kumari M, Badrick E, Chandola T, Adler NE, Epel E, Seeman T, Kirschbaum C, Marmot MG. (2010) Measures of social position and cortisol secretion in an aging population: findings from the Whitehall II study. Psychosom Med. 2010 Jan;72(1):27-34. Epub 2009 Dec 7.

Chandola T, Heraclides A, Kumari M. (2010) Psychophysiological biomarkers of workplace stressors. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. .[Epub ahead of print]

Kumari M, Badrick E, Ferrie J, Perski A, Marmot M, Chandola T. (2009) Self-reported sleep duration and sleep disturbance are independently associated with cortisol secretion in the Whitehall II study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2009 Dec;94(12):4801-9. Epub 2009 Oct 22.

Hintsa T, Shipley M, Gimeno D, Elovainio M, Chandola T, Jokela M, Keltikangas-Järvinen L, Vahtera J, Marmot MG, Kivimäki M. (2009) Do pre-employment influences explain the association between psychosocial factors at work and coronary heart disease? The Whitehall II study. Occup Environ Med. 2009 Oct 9. [Epub ahead of print]

Sekine M, Chandola T, Martikainen P, Marmot M, Kagamimori S. (2009) Socioeconomic inequalities in physical and mental functioning of British, Finnish, and Japanese civil servants: role of job demand, control, and work hours. Soc Sci Med. 2009 Nov;69(10):1417-25. Epub 2009 Sep 18.

Lahelma E, Lallukka T, Laaksonen M, Martikainen P, Rahkonen O, Chandola T, Head J, Marmot M, Kagamimori S, Tatsuse T, Sekine M. (2009) Social class differences in health behaviours among employees from Britain, Finland and Japan: the influence of psychosocial factors. Health Place. 2010 Jan;16(1):61-70. Epub 2009 Aug 28.

Heraclides A, Chandola T, Witte DR, Brunner EJ. (2009) Psychosocial stress at work doubles the risk of type 2 diabetes in middle-aged women: evidence from the Whitehall II study. Diabetes Care. 2009 Dec;32(12):2230-5. Epub 2009 Aug 31.

Brunner E, Shipley M, Spencer V, Kivimaki M, Chandola T, Gimeno D, Singh-Manoux A, Guralnik J, Marmot M. (2009) Social inequality in walking speed in early old age in the Whitehall II study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2009 Oct;64(10):1082-9. Epub 2009 Jun 17.

Kumari M, Badrick E, Chandola T, Adam EK, Stafford M, Marmot MG, Kirschbaum C, Kivimaki M. (2009) Cortisol secretion and fatigue: associations in a community based cohort. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2009 Nov;34(10):1476-85. Epub 2009 Jun 3.

Pikhartova J, Chandola T, Kubinova R, Bobak M, Nicholson A, Pikhart H. (2009) Neighbourhood socioeconomic indicators and depressive symptoms in the Czech Republic: a population based study. Int J Public Health. 2009;54(4):283-93.

Akbaraly TN, Kivimäki M, Brunner EJ, Chandola T, Marmot MG, Singh-Manoux A, Ferrie JE. (2009) Association between metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms in middle-aged adults: results from the Whitehall II study. Diabetes Care. 2009 Mar;32(3):499-504. Epub 2008 Dec 23.

Kivimäki M, Shipley MJ, Ferrie JE, Singh-Manoux A, Batty GD, Chandola T, Marmot MG, Smith GD. (2009) Best-practice interventions to reduce socioeconomic inequalities of coronary heart disease mortality in UK: a prospective occupational cohort study. Lancet. 2008 Nov 8;372(9650):1648-54.

Chandola T, Britton A, Brunner E, Hemingway H, Malik M, Kumari M, Badrick E, Kivimaki M, Marmot M. (2008) Work stress and coronary heart disease: what are the mechanisms? Eur Heart J. 2008 Mar;29(5):640-8. Epub 2008 Jan 23.