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PhD projects

Dr. Busby would like to hear from PhD candidates with a statistical or clinical background. His fields of interest include

- Severe asthma epidemiology
- Geographic variations in healthcare processes and outcomes
- Social determinants of disease

20122024

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Personal profile

Research Focus

Dr. Busby is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics working within the Centre for Public Health at Queen's University Belfast. Although he works across a broad range of areas, his primary research interests are in severe asthma. In particular, he has led a programme exploring potential ethnic, socioeconomic and gender-based disparities in UK severe asthma care and outcomes, and contributed to a broad range of studies aiming to better understand how treatment can be optimised in severe asthma. He is the lead statistician for the UK severe asthma registry, the largest registry of its kind worldwide, and contributes to international collaborations in severe asthma including the International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR).

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

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  • Airway proteomics reveals broad residual anti-inflammatory effects of prednisolone in mepolizumab-treated asthma

    Howell, I., Yang, F., Brown, V., Cane, J., Marchi, E., Azim, A., Busby, J., McDowell, P. J., Diver, S. E., Borg, C., Heaney, L. G., Pavord, I. D., Brightling, C. E., Chaudhuri, R. & Hinks, T. S. C., Nov 2024, In: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 154, 5, p. 1146-1158

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  • Analysis of comorbidities and multimorbidity in adult patients in the International Severe Asthma Registry

    Scelo, G., Torres-Duque, C. A., Maspero, J. F., Tran, T. N., Murray, R. B., Menzies-Gow, A., Hew, M., Peters, M. J., Gibson, P. G., Christoff, G. C., Popov, T. A., Côté, A., Bergeron, C., Dorscheid, D., FitzGerald, J. M., Chapman, K. R., Boulet, L. P., Bhutani, M., Sadatsafavi, M. & Jiménez-Maldonado, L. & 62 others, Duran-Silva, M., Rodriguez, B., Celis-Preciado, C. A., Cano-Rosales, D. J., Solarte, I., Fernandez-Sanchez, M. J., Parada-Tovar, P., von Bülow, A., Bjerrum, A. S., Suppli Ulrik, C., Assing, K. D., Hansen, S., Altraja, A., Bourdin, A., Taillé, C., Charriot, J., Roche, N., Papaioannou, A. I., Kostikas, K., Papadopoulos, N. G., Salvi, S., Long, D., Mitchell, P., Costello, R. W., Sirena, C., Cardini, C., Heffler, E., Puggioni, F., Canonica, G. W., Guida, G., Iwanaga, T., Al-Ahmad, M., Larenas-Linnemann, D., García, U., Kuna, P., Fonseca, J. A., Al-Lehebi, R., Koh, M. S., Rhee, C. K., Cosio, B. G., Perez de Llano, L., Perng Steve, D.-W., Wan-Chun Huang, E., Tsai, M., Mahboub, B., Salameh, L. I. J., Busby, J., Heaney, L. G., Pfeffer, P. E., Goddard, A. G., Wang, E., Hoyte, F., Wechsler, M. E., Chapman, N., Katial, R., Carter, V., Bulathsinhala, L., Eleangovan, N., Ariti, C., Lyu, J., Price, D. & Porsbjerg, C., Jan 2024, In: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. 132, 1, p. 42-53 12 p.

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  • Association between pre-biologic T2-Biomaker combinations and response to biologics in patients with severe asthma

    Porsbjerg, C. M., Townend, J., Bergeron, C., Christoff, G. C., Katsoulotos, G. P., Larenas-Linnemann, D., Tran, T. N., Al-Lehebi, R., Bosnic-Anticevich, S. Z., Busby, J., Hew, M., Kostikas, K., Papadopoulos, N. G., Pfeffer, P. E., Popov, T. A., Rhee, C. K., Sadatsafavi, M., Tsai, M.-J., Ulrik, C. S. & Al-Ahmad, M. & 30 others, Altraja, A., Beastall, A., Bulathsinhala, L., Carter, V., Cosio, B. G., Fletton, K., Hansen, S., Heaney, L. G., Hubbard, R. B., Kuna, P., Murray, R. B., Nagano, T., Pini, L., Cano Rosales, D. J., Schleich, F., Wechsler, M. E., Amaral, R., Bourdin, A., Brusselle, G. G., Chen, W., Chung, L. P., Denton, E., Fonseca, J. A., Hoyte, F., Jackson, D. J., Katial, R., Kirenga, B. J., Koh, M. S., Ławkiedraj, A. & Lehtimäki, L., 19 Apr 2024, In: Frontiers in Immunology. 15, 21 p., 1361891.

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  • Association between T2-related comorbidities and effectiveness of biologics in severe asthma

    Wechsler, M. E., Scelo, G., Larenas-Linnemann, D. E. S., Torres-Duque, C. A., Maspero, J., Tran, T. N., Murray, R. B., Martin, N., Menzies-Gow, A. N., Hew, M., Peters, M. J., Gibson, P. G., Christoff, G. C., Popov, T. A., Côté, A., Bergeron, C., Dorscheid, D., FitzGerald, J. M., Chapman, K. R. & Boulet, L. P. & 66 others, Bhutani, M., Sadatsafavi, M., Jiménez-Maldonado, L., Duran-Silva, M., Rodriguez, B., Celis-Preciado, C. A., Cano-Rosales, D. J., Solarte, I., Fernandez-Sanchez, M. J., Parada-Tovar, P., von Bülow, A., Bjerrum, A. S., Ulrik, C. S., Assing, K. D., Rasmussen, L. M., Hansen, S., Altraja, A., Bourdin, A., Taille, C., Charriot, J., Roche, N., Papaioannou, A. I., Kostikas, K., Papadopoulos, N. G., Salvi, S., Long, D., Mitchell, P. D., Costello, R., Sirena, C., Cardini, C., Heffler, E., Puggioni, F., Canonica, G. W., Guida, G., Iwanaga, T., Al-Ahmad, M., García, U., Kuna, P., Fonseca, J. A., Al-Lehebi, R., Koh, M. S., Rhee, C. K., Cosio, B. G., Perez de Llano, L., Perng, D. W. S., Huang, E. W. C., Wang, H. C., Tsai, M. J., Mahboub, B., Salameh, L. I. J., Jackson, D. J., Busby, J., Heaney, L. G., Pfeffer, P. E., Goddard, A. G., Wang, E., Hoyte, F. C. L., Chapman, N. M., Katial, R., Carter, V., Bulathsinhala, L., Eleangovan, N., Ariti, C., Lyu, J., Porsbjerg, C. & Price, D. B., 01 Feb 2024, In: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 209, 3, p. 262-272 11 p.

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  • Clinical and economic burden of severe asthma with low blood eosinophil counts

    Busby, J., Menon, S., Martin, N., Lipworth, J., Zhang, R., Burhan, H., Brown, T., Chaudhuri, R., Gore, R., Jackson, D. J., Naveed, S., Pantin, T., Pfeffer, P. E., Patel, M., Patel, P. H., Rupani, H. & Heaney, L. G., 07 Oct 2024, In: The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. 12, 10, p. 2785-2797 13 p.

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