Andres holds the Gillings Fellow in Autism Research and Global Public Health at Autism Research Centre in the University of Cambridge and is Assistant Professor at Maastricht University in the Department of International Health. He is also a Clinical Research Associate at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health and holds an Honorary Contract with Public Health England.
Andres has held appointments as Director of Studies in Psychology and Behavioural Science (PBS) in Trinity Hall, Cambridge and supervises a number of PhD, MPhil, and undergraduate students. He is also affiliated to both the Faculty of Public Health and the Royal Society for Public Health participating in the Mental Health Special Interest Groups. Prior to joining the Cambridge Institute of Public Health he was Research Officer in Health Economics and Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Technical Lead at the Centre for Health Technology Assessment in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence - NICE. His combined expertise in mental health and substance abuse research lies in the field of drug policy and its links to public health. In this area he leads a research programme studying the association between austerity, macroeconomic indicators, and substance misuse. He holds degrees in Clinical Medicine and Psychiatry (MD, University of Santiago de Chile; PhD Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) and Health Economics and International Health Policy (MSc, London School of Economics, LSE). His most recent book, discusses different global policy options for NPS having collaborated for this work with different international organisations such as the European Commission, UNODC, DEA, WADA, LSE Ideas, and various leading academics in the field of drug policy.
Andres as Gillings Fellow is focused on public health research addressing the complex ethical, economic, and social issues needed for the successful translation of substance abuse research findings into clinical, individual, or governmental policy and practice. Andres research interests also span neuro-developmental conditions such as autism and its links to mental health, public health and social and educational policy. As Gillings Fellow he is also conducting research projects into the effects of the 2007 crisis in substance abuse, the opioid epidemic, NPS consumption in the USA, drug policy reform and also the regional prevalence estimates for ASC in England and its links to systemising and STEM; a project focused on the early detection of ASC in a LMIC setting such as Chile; a household expenditure survey for people with ASC based in China and a large scale project that is mapping autism policy in all 28 Member States of the EU.
Publications from Elements
Journal articles
2024
Doi: 10.1038/s44159-024-00311-2
2023
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.etdah.2023.100051
Doi: http://doi.org/10.2196/48000
2022
Doi: 10.1016/j.etdah.2022.100043
2021
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2021.1877590
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.11.004
Doi: 10.1016/j.etdah.2021.100003
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.12.023
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100872
2020
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-002117
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320972277
2019 (Accepted for publication)
Neicun, J., Steenhuizen, M., van Kessel, R., Yang, JC., Negri, A., Czabanowska, K., Corazza, O. and Roman Urrestarazu, A., 2019 (Accepted for publication). Mapping Novel Psychoactive Substances Policy in the EU: the case of Portugal, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Poland, the United Kingdom and Sweden PLoS ONE, Rosner, B. and Roman Urrestarazu, A., 2019 (Accepted for publication). Health-related quality of life in paediatric patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus using insulin infusion systems. A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE, Van Kessel, R., Walsh, S., Ruigrok, A., Holt, R., Yliherva, A., Kärnä, E., Moilanen, I., Hjorne, E., Taneja Johansson, S., Schendel, D., Pedersen, L., Brayne, C., Baron-Cohen, S. and Roman Urrestarazu, A., 2019 (Accepted for publication). Autism and the Right to Education in the EU: Policy Mapping and Scoping Review of Nordic Countries Denmark, Finland, and Sweden Molecular Autism,Doi: 10.1186/s13229-019-0290-4
Van Kessel, R., Roman Urrestarazu, A., Ruigrok, A., Holt, R., Commers, M., Hoekstra, R., Czabanowska, K., Brayne, C. and Baron-Cohen, S., 2019 (Accepted for publication). Autism and Family Involvement in the Right to Education in the EU: Policy Mapping in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany Molecular Autism,2019
Yang, JC., Roman-Urrestarazu, A., McKee, M. and Brayne, C., 2019. Demographic, socioeconomic, and health correlates of unmet need for mental health treatment in the United States, 2002-16: evidence from the national surveys on drug use and health. Int J Equity Health, v. 18Doi: 10.1186/s12939-019-1026-y
Rosner, B., Neicun, J., Yang, JC. and Roman-Urrestarazu, A., 2019. Opioid prescription patterns in Germany and the global opioid epidemic: Systematic review of available evidence. PLoS One, v. 14Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221153
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226349
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213060
Roman-Urrestarazu, A., Yang, J., Robertson, R., McCallum, A., Gray, C., McKee, M. and Middleton, J., 2019. Brexit threatens the UK's ability to tackle illicit drugs and organised crime: What needs to happen now? Health Policy, v. 123Doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.04.005
2018 (No publication date)
2018 (Accepted for publication)
Yang, JC., Roman-Urrestarazu, A. and Brayne, C., 2018 (Accepted for publication). Binge alcohol and substance use across birth cohorts and the global financial crisis in the United States PloS one, v. 13Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199741
2018
Roleska, M., Roman-Urrestarazu, A., Griffiths, S., Ruigrok, ANV., Holt, R., van Kessel, R., McColl, K., Sherlaw, W., Brayne, C. and Czabanowska, K., 2018. Autism and the right to education in the EU: Policy mapping and scoping review of the United Kingdom, France, Poland and Spain. PLoS One, v. 13Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202336
Roman-Urrestarazu, A., Robertson, R., Yang, J., McCallum, A., Gray, C., McKee, M. and Middleton, J., 2018. European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has a vital role in the UK's ability to respond to illicit drugs and organised crime. BMJ, v. 362Doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4003
2017
2016
Roman-Urrestarazu, A., Lindholm, P., Moilanen, I., Kiviniemi, V., Miettunen, J., Jääskeläinen, E., Mäki, P., Hurtig, T., Ebeling, H. and Barnett, JH., 2016. Brain structural deficits and working memory fMRI dysfunction in young adults who were diagnosed with ADHD in adolescence European child & adolescent psychiatry, v. 25 Roman-Urrestarazu, A., Ali, FMH., Reka, H., Renwick, MJ., Roman, GD. and Mossialos, E., 2016. Structural equation model for estimating risk factors in type 2 diabetes mellitus in a Middle Eastern setting: evidence from the STEPS Qatar BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, v. 42015
2014
Roman-Urrestarazu, A., Murray, GK., Barnes, A., Miettunen, J., Jääskeläinen, E., Mäki, P., Nikkinen, J., Remes, J., Mukkala, S. and Koivukangas, J., 2014. Brain structure in different psychosis risk groups in the Northern Finland 1986 birth cohort Schizophrenia research, v. 1532011
2009
Other publications
2022
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2734
Books
2018 (No publication date)
2017
Book chapters
2017
Conference proceedings
