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Public Health training at UCL Oyinlola Oyebode, Joseph McDonnell and Robert Aldridge
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Why do your academic placement at UCL In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, 62% of UCL’s submissions were ranked at the highest grades of 4* (“of world-leading quality”), or 3* (“internationally excellent”), placing it third in the UK UCL attracts the second highest number of academic citations in the UK showing the high esteem and relevance of the institution’s research Location
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What will you get out of an academic placement? Teaching opportunities Future career Time to think Publication and how to get one Temporary bubble
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Options within UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care the Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH); the Research Department of Infection and Population Health (IPH); the Department of Applied Health Research (DAHR).
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Educational Supervisors in the Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care EPH: Dr Jennifer Mindell IPH: Dr Andrew Hayward DAHR: Dr Nora Pashayan
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Dept of Epidemiology & Public Health (EPH) Dr Jenny Mindell: Active travel, survey methodology, impact assessments Prof. Harry Hemingway: Cardiovascular disease Sir Michael Marmot: Lifecourse approach, health inequalities Prof. Nora Groce: International development and human rights, global disability issues Prof. Di Kuh: Life course approach to women’s health and chronic disease Prof. Martin Bobak: Determinants of chronic diseases and well-being in Central and Eastern Europe
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Recent Projects Examining the use of HSE in policy making and monitoring (Oyinlola Oyebode) Under-reporting of tobacco-use by Bangladeshi women (Amina Aitsi-Selmi) What factors affect parents’ willingness to allow blood samples to be taken from their children for research? (Ayesha Ali) Lifetime socioeconomic inequalities in physical and cognitive aging (Louise Hurst)
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An Example of a Recent Project
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Dept of Infection and Population Health (IPH) Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology –Dr Andrew Hayward HIV Epidemiology and Biostatistics Group –Professor Andrew and Professor Caroline Sabin Centre for Sexual Health & HIV Research –Dr Richard Gilson Health Psychology and Social Sciences group –Professor Lorraine Sherr
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Academic Clinical Fellows / Research Training Fellows Laura Shallcross (MRC) – Community staphylococci infections Charlotte Warren-Gash (MRC) – Influenza and myocardial infarction Rob Aldridge (Wellcome Trust) – Tuberculosis in migrants and ‘hard-to-reach’ Delan Devakumar (Wellcome Trust) – Childhood nutrition in Nepal at ICH Olivier le Polain – Influenza Bioaerosols & Meningitis in Africa at LSHTM
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Academic Clinical Lecturers David Ishola (NIHR) – HPA vaccines group, streptococcal and meningococcal immunity, Nigel Field – NATSAL & British birth cohort infection supplement
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Dept of Applied Health Research (DAHR) Professor Rosalind Raine: Health care inequalities, implementation of evidence based clinical and public health interventions Professor Steve Morris: Health economics, economic evaluation Professor Naomi Fulop: Interface between health policy and service delivery, management and organisation of health care Dr Nora Pashayan: Cancer screening, integrating genomics in public health research Professor Martin Marshall: Science of improvement (Gap between evidence and practice) Dr Mike Galsworthy: Surgical outcomes
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Examining adherence of COPD patients to long-term antibiotics (Joe McDonnell) Evaluation of NHS London’s planning and delivery for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (Jayne Taylor) Providing independent academic public health input into the review of plans to downgrade services at Chase Farm Hospital (Helen Barrett) Member of the guideline development group that compiled the third edition of the UK Intensive Care Society’s Guidelines for the transport of the critically ill adult (Helen Barrett) Recent Projects
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Cancer Pathways How do patient characteristics affect referral decisions for diagnostic tests? Systematic review Creating research tool – computer programme (filming, directing, editing, constructing, validating) Negotiation Piloting Recruitment
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Upcoming projects Cancer pathways – qualitative study on journeys to A&E and subsequent experience. Qualitative data analysis, linking qualitative data to the quantitative dataset for audit Olympic project – evaluation of NHS London's 2012 planning and delivery for the Olympic Games. Secondary data analysis, taking recommendations forward to services (Rio!), dissemination You can bring your own!
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Opportunities from placements here Papers –McBride D, Hardoon S,Walters K,Gilmore S, Raine R. Explaining variation in referral from primary to secondary care- a cohort study. BMJ 2010; 341:c6267 doi: 10.1136/bmj.c6267 –Ashton C, Bajekal M, Raine R. Quantifying the contribution of leading causes of death to mortality decline among older people in England 1991-2005. Health Statistics Quarterly Spring 2010;45:100-127 –Anya I, Raine R. Strengthening clinical and research ethics in Nigeria- an agenda for change. Lancet 2008;372:1594-7 –Barratt H, Raine R. Hospital service reconfiguration: the battle for hearts and minds. British Medical Journal 2012;344: e953 Career path –Member of Marmot Breast cancer screening review team –Fellowships and PHDs –Jobs
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