Transcript Opportunities for Academic Public Health

Public Health training at UCL
Oyinlola Oyebode, Joseph McDonnell and Robert
Aldridge
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
What will you get out of an academic
placement?
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Teaching opportunities
Future career
Time to think
Publication and how to get one
Temporary bubble
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).
Educational Supervisors in the Institute of
Epidemiology and Health Care
• EPH: Dr Jennifer Mindell
• IPH: Dr Andrew Hayward
• DAHR: Dr Nora Pashayan
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
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)
An Example of a Recent Project
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
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
Academic Clinical Lecturers
• David Ishola (NIHR) – HPA vaccines group,
streptococcal and meningococcal immunity,
Nigel Field – NATSAL & British birth cohort
infection supplement
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
Recent Projects
• 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)
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
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!
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