
Sanna Read
Professor, Namibia University of Science and Technology
Introduction
Sanna Read is an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre based at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is also a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki. Her areas of expertise are well-being and health, service use, social contacts and socioeconomic factors in middle and older age. Part of her work focuses on costs of autism and financing adult social care. She is also interested in social inequalities and school engagement, school burnout, and mental health in young people. She uses a range of longitudinal and multilevel methods, especially those based on structural equation modelling. She works as a methods advisor in various research projects and as an assessor for epidemiological statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her publications range from papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals to policy documents.