Dr Mohamed Mhereeg

Data Scientist & User Support Manager

Health Data Science

m.r.mhereeg@swansea.ac.uk

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About

Mohamed is a Data Scientist and User Support Manager with the SAIL Databank’s User & Data Support Services (UDSS) team. His key responsibilities include supporting services related to disclosure control, project scoping, metadata development, and data quality. Since joining SAIL in 2019, he has held various roles, including Senior Research Data Analyst and Research Officer & Data Scientist, contributing to multidisciplinary research in areas such as multimorbidity, mental health, maternal and child health, data linkage, data mining, and machine learning. Before joining SAIL, Mohamed served as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Tripoli.

Areas Of Expertise

SAIL Metadata Operational Manager
Health Data Science
Epidemiology
Medical Statistics
Data Linkage
Machine Learning
Programming (SQL, R, Python, Oracle, C++)
Database Management Systems

Publications

Research Highlights

Mhereeg, M., Jones, H., Kennedy, J., Seaborne, M., Parker, M., Kennedy, T., BEESON, S., Akbari, A., Zuccolo, L., Davies, A., & Brophy, S. (2022). COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy: views and vaccination uptake rates in pregnancy, a mixed methods analysis from SAIL and the Born-In-Wales Birth Cohort. BMC Infectious Diseases, 22(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07856-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62162
Kennedy, J., Parker, M., Seaborne, M., Mhereeg, M., Walker, A., Walker, V., Denaxas, S., Kennedy, T., Katikireddi, S., & Brophy, S. (2023). Healthcare use attributable to COVID-19: a propensity-matched national electronic health records cohort study of 249,390 people in Wales, UK. BMC Medicine, 21(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-02897-5, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63736
Jones, H., Seaborne, M., Mhereeg, M., James, M., Kennedy, T., Bandyopadhyay, A., & Brophy, S. (2023). Breastfeeding initiation and duration through the COVID-19 pandemic, a linked population-level routine data study: the Born in Wales Cohort 2018–2021. BMJ Paediatrics Open, 7(1), e001907
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2023-001907, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63897
Mhereeg, M., Jones, H., Kennedy, J., Seaborne, M., Parker, M., Kennedy, T., Akbari, A., Zuccolo, L., Azcoaga-Lorenzo, A., Davies, A., Nirantharakumar, K., & Brophy, S. (2023). COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy: the impact of multimorbidity and smoking status on vaccine hesitancy, a cohort study of 25,111 women in Wales, UK. BMC Infectious Diseases, 23(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-023-08555-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64540
Dekel, D., Marchant, A., del Pozo Banos, M., Mhereeg, M., Lee, S., & John, A. (2025). Exploring the Views of Young People, Including Those With a History of Self-Harm, on the Use of Their Routinely Generated Data for Mental Health Research: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey Study. JMIR Mental Health, 12, e60649
https://doi.org/10.2196/60649, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68691

All Research

Journal Articles

Dekel, D., Marchant, A., del Pozo Banos, M., Mhereeg, M., Lee, S., & John, A. (2025). Exploring the Views of Young People, Including Those With a History of Self-Harm, on the Use of Their Routinely Generated Data for Mental Health Research: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey Study. JMIR Mental Health, 12, e60649
https://doi.org/10.2196/60649, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68691
Mhereeg, M., Jones, H., Kennedy, J., Seaborne, M., Parker, M., Kennedy, T., Akbari, A., Zuccolo, L., Azcoaga-Lorenzo, A., Davies, A., Nirantharakumar, K., & Brophy, S. (2023). COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy: the impact of multimorbidity and smoking status on vaccine hesitancy, a cohort study of 25,111 women in Wales, UK. BMC Infectious Diseases, 23(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-023-08555-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64540
Jones, H., Seaborne, M., Mhereeg, M., James, M., Kennedy, T., Bandyopadhyay, A., & Brophy, S. (2023). Breastfeeding initiation and duration through the COVID-19 pandemic, a linked population-level routine data study: the Born in Wales Cohort 2018–2021. BMJ Paediatrics Open, 7(1), e001907
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2023-001907, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63897
Kennedy, J., Parker, M., Seaborne, M., Mhereeg, M., Walker, A., Walker, V., Denaxas, S., Kennedy, T., Katikireddi, S., & Brophy, S. (2023). Healthcare use attributable to COVID-19: a propensity-matched national electronic health records cohort study of 249,390 people in Wales, UK. BMC Medicine, 21(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-02897-5, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63736
Mhereeg, M., Jones, H., Kennedy, J., Seaborne, M., Parker, M., Kennedy, T., BEESON, S., Akbari, A., Zuccolo, L., Davies, A., & Brophy, S. (2022). COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy: views and vaccination uptake rates in pregnancy, a mixed methods analysis from SAIL and the Born-In-Wales Birth Cohort. BMC Infectious Diseases, 22(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07856-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62162