PHPRU - Key Persons
Professor Ashley Adamson is Professor of Public Health Nutrition at the Human Nutrition Research Centre at the Institute of Health & Society, University of Newcastle .
After graduation in 1987 Ashley worked as a dietitian in the NHS before moving to Newcastle University as a Research Associate to work on the Northumberland cross sectional cohort studies with Prof Andrew Rugg-Gunn. She was awarded her PhD (a study of the changes in the diets of adolescents 1980-1990) from Faculty of Medicine Newcastle University in 1993. In 1992, Ashley moved back into clinical practice and worked in a number of community dietetic posts and in primary care in London. She returned to Newcastle University in 1995 to take up a post as Lecturer in the newly created Human Nutrition Research Centre to develop a research programme in Public Health Nutrition.
Job Titles:
- Deputy Director
- Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Rebecca E Glover is an interdisciplinary Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in Antimicrobial Resistance, in the Department of Health Services Research and Policy.
She is a thought leader in antimicrobial resistance innovation policy, social and commercial determinants of health, and evaluation with a particular interest in complex systems research.
Rebecca is also Associate Convener of the Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group, a founding member of the LSHTM Commercial Determinants Research Group, and she served as the Head of Economic, Social, and Political Sciences in the LSHTM AMR Centre from 2018-2022.
Along with Professor Nicholas Mays, Dr Glover will jointly lead the Pharmacy First Evaluation project, read more.
Professor Hilary Graham joined the University of York in October 2005 as Professor of Health Sciences and as Director of the Public Health Research Consortium. She also holds a Visiting Professorship at UCL Institute of Child Health.
Socioeconomic inequalities in health are at the centre of Hilary's research interests and policy commitments. She is particularly concerned with how the experience of inequality across the life course contributes to socioeconomic inequalities in health in adulthood - and with how policies can moderate these inequalities.
Linked to this, her work has also focused on how socioeconomic disadvantage shapes women's lives. Here, women smoking has been a major and enduring focus.
Hilary has a background in sociology and social policy. Her BA, MA and PhD are in sociology; the research and teaching posts she has held have spanned both disciplines. After working for her PhD at the University of York in the 1970s, she moved to the University of Bradford as a Lecturer in Social Policy. She followed this with a research post in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University, before taking up the post of Head of the Applied Social Studies Department at Coventry Polytechnic (now Coventry University) in the mid 1980s. She was appointed to the Chair of Applied Social Studies at the University of Warwick in 1988, a post she held until 1996, before moving to Lancaster University in 1996 to head up the ESRC's Health Variations Programme (1996-2001).
Hilary's recent publications include Unequal Lives: Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities (Open University Press, 2007) and Understanding Health Inequalities (Open University Press, 2009).
Hilary has contributed both to research and to policy development in the area of health and inequality. On the research front, she has served on four Research Assessment Exercises. She was a member of the Social Work and the Social Policy Panel of the 1989 Research Selectivity Exercise and of the 1992, 1996 and 2008 Research Assessment Exercises. She is also a member of the NIHR Public Health Programme Research Board.
On the policy front, Hilary was a member of the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health, chaired by Sir Donald Acheson. The Inquiry was established by the Minister for Health in 1997 to review the evidence on class inequalities in health and to make recommendations for policies to address them. My current policy-related commitments include membership of the Department of Health's Scientific Reference group on Health Inequalities, NICE's Topic Selection Public Health Consideration Panel and the Advisory Group for the EU-funded GRADIENT project.
Professor Martin White is the Programme Lead for Food behaviours and public health interventions, Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. Martin was the professor of Public Health at the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University and lead their Public Health Research Programme. As Professor of Public Health, co-director of the public health and applied health interventions research programme and honorary consultant in public health with the North East Strategic Health Authority, he shares responsibility for stategic development and management of academic public health within Newcastle University and North East England.
Martin trained in medicine at Birmingham University and, after working in child health for 3 years, moved to north east England to train in public health. He joined Newcastle University as a lecturer in 1990 became senior lecturer in public health in 1992. He was Director of the Health Promotion Research Group from 1996 and became Director of the Public Health Research Group in 2004. He was appointed to the Chair in Public Health in May 2005 and formed the Public Health Research Programme within the newly founded Institute of Health & Society (IHS) at Newcastle University in August 2006. In 2008 he was awarded funding for and became director of Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, a UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence. In May 2011, the Public Health Research Programme was expanded to form the Public Health and Applied Health Interventions Research Programme within IHS.
Martin's research focuses on the development and evaluation of public health interventions and understanding and tackling inequalities in health.He has an interest in developing research on the influence of the food industry, the impact of social and policy interventions on diet, and the population impact of individual level interventions.
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