International Festival of Public Health

Speakers' Programme now online

As part of the Festival, there will be a series of parallel sessions running for those who submitted successfully chosen abstracts.

The breakdown for each parallel session can be found below:

Parallel Session 1 (12:00 - 13:15)

Global Health, Health Protection and Emergency Planning

Room: LT 2 (Chair - Dr William Welfare)

Overweight and obesity among tomorrow's health professionals: A ground reality from a developing country

Sajid Mahmood (University of Sheffield)

Socio-cultural determinants of reluctance to use Contraception: An Exploratory Qualitative Study among Married Youth of squatter settlement of Karachi, Pakistan.

Noureen Aleem Nishtar (World Health Organisation)

Shisha (water-pipe) tobacco smoking: a growing public health threat to the United Kingdom?

Mohammed Jawad (Imperial College School of Public Health)

Healthcare Workers and MMR: How well-protected are they?

Subhashis Basu (Sheffield Occupational Health Service)

The Local Authority role in leading partnership working to manage a childhood immunisation SUI- learning and outcomes

Isobel Duckworth (North East Lincolnshire Council)

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Health Services Research

Room: LT 4 (Chair - Professor Tarani Chandola)

Economic evaluation of cancer care coordinators for stage III colon cancer

Lucie Collinson (University of Otago Wellington)

To develop the programme theory underpinning Studio House drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre

Nikki Jaswal (University of Nottingham)

“Professional coasting”: an exploration of evaluation from the perspective of Public Health and Health professionals

Penelope Siebert (School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield)

Working together for health: A qualitative study exploring links between health services and the third sector for chronic condition management

Rebecca L. Morris (University of Manchester)

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Health Promotion and Improvement

Room: LT 6 (Chair - Dr Rosemary McCann)

Qualitative Evaluation of the Infant Feeding Peer Support Role

Angela Eden (Salford City Council)

Parental knowledge and perceptions of Healthy Start vitamins and vitamin supplementation for pregnant women and children under five

Christine Nolan (Central London Community Healthcare)

Assessing Packed Lunches of Primary School Children

Emma Cadman and Phoebe Kalungi (Central London Community Healthcare)

A qualitative evaluation of a Local Professional Network project entitled “Baby Teeth DO Matter”

Paul Brocklehurst (University of Manchester)

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Health Promotion and Improvement

Room: S 4 (Chair - Dr Lorraine Lighton)

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Health Inequalities - a forgotten story of inequality

Heather Williams (The Lesbian & Gay Foundation)

Equity & Excellence Liberating the NHS a Patient View!

Paul Lee (Cornishway Patient Group)

The place of pleasure: Case-study of the conceptualisation and operationalization of pleasure in sexual health projects

Katie Whitehouse (Berlin School of Public Health at Charité)

North West Obesity Task Force - A collaborative approach to tackling Obesity

Nicola Calder (Health Equalities Group)

Awareness of the health risks associated with shisha tobacco among young people in Tameside

Carole Hill (North West School of Public Health)

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Health Services Research

Room: S 5 (Chair - Dr Vicci Owen-Smith)

Child Sexual Exploitation: How sexual health services can identify and support young people at risk and share health intelligence with multidisciplinary teams

Sarah Doran and Diane Cordwell (Greater Manchester Sexual Health Network)

Recent advances in the management of patients with severe aortic stenosis- A case presentation

Shabnam Javed (University of Manchester)

Biological effects of bariatric surgery on obesity-related comorbidities

Shamik Dholakia (Imperial College Healthcare)

Sustainable health, wellbeing and Steady State Economics

Mark Burton and Judith Emanuel (Steady State Manchester)

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Prevention and Screening

Room: S 6 (Chair - Dr Roger Harrison)

Clustered lifestyle patient Assessment pathway

Gary Bickerstaffe (Bolton Council)

Investigating how memory T cell responses develop and evolve following repeated malaria infection

Jenna Godfrey (University of Manchester)

Clinical audit of primary care management of patients with Impaired Glucose Regulation across (IGR) Merseyside

Ruth du Plessis (Sefton Council)

Perception and practices of young urban Bangladeshi male and female on sexual and reproductive health rights

Sohana Samrin Chodhury (Eminence, Bangladesh)

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The Future of Public Health

Room: S 7 (Chair - Helen Gollins)

Are school-based health promotion strategies more effective among some age groups of adolescents?

Michael Bourke (University of Manchester)

Is a smoking ban in cars necessary, following the introduction of smoke-free legislation in the UK?

Richard Wilson (University of Manchester)

Obstetric Anaesthesia: Patient Satisfaction & The Ability to Give Valid Consent

Sumayyah Mian (University of Manchester)

Common Infectious Diseases- how do we communicate to cases?

Hannah Byrne and Saerrah Murryam (University of Manchester)

The role of syndromic surveillance during public health events

Esra Elsaigh (University of Manchester)

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Parallel Session 2 (14:00 - 15:10)

Teaching and Training / Occupational and Environmental Health

Room: LT 1 (Chair - Dr Roseanne McNamee)

Robot assisted surgery: A harsh dose of augmented reality

Meera Nanda Kumar (University of Manchester)

John Snow, Dandelions and the Internet: Their contribution to public health

Roger Harrison, University of Manchester

e-Learning Africa: Education for Child Health in Resource Constrained Low- and Middle-income Countries

Yasmin Hashimi (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

Investing skin cancer cases and associated exposures as reported to The Health and Occupational Research (THOR) network

Susan Turner (University of Manchester)

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Health Promotion and Improvement

Room: LT 3 (Chair - Dr Paula Whittaker)

Implementing Smoke Free Play for Children in Tameside

Paula Whittaker (North West School of Public Health)

Improving maternal and child health through the uptake of Healthy Start Vitamins in one local authority

Isobel Duckworth (North East Lincolnshire Council)

Developing Healthy Eating in Young Children: The Food Dudes Approach

Mihela Erjavec (Food Dudes Health Ltd)

A whole-system approach to addressing Vitamin D deficiency

Becky Reynolds (Bradford Council)

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Prevention and Screening

Room: LT 4 (Chair - Professor Linda Davies)

Cardiovascular risk factor patterns in long-settled Roma and recently settled Indian populations

Anand Bhopal (University of Manchester)

Sitting time in midlife and common mental disorder into old age: Cross-sectional, longitudinal and reverse causal associations in the Whitehall II cohort study

Gareth Hagger-Johnson (University College London)

Sexual orientation identity in relation to smoking history and alcohol use at age 18/19: Longitudinal Study of Young People in England

Gareth Hagger-Johnson (University College London)

A regional evaluation of the NHS Health Check programme: findings from an early stage evaluation in the East Midlands

Penelope Siebert (School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield)

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Health Promotion and Improvement

Room: LT 5 (Chair - Dr Judith Clegg)

Demonstrating effectiveness: competing discourses in the use of applied theatre practice in prisons with a public health focus

Ranjit Khutan (University of Wolverhampton)

Engaging young people in health improvement in Glasgow

Linda Morris (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde)

A conceptual framework to reducing teenage pregnancy in Africa: an empirical approach

Opeyemi Odejimi (University of Wolverhampton)

Improving wellbeing through community health improvement: A service evaluation

Angela Eden (Salford City Council)

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Health Promotion and Improvement

Room: LT 6 (Chair - Dr Katie Reed)

Reducing excess winter deaths through trained and trusted local home improvement and handyperson providers

Andy Chaplin (Foundations)

Benefits of a community cook and taste programme for older residents in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Marimba Carr (Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust)

Bolton Councils Public Health Team working with local partners, including NHS Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), implemented a Staying Well feasibility Project to support adults 65 and over to maintain their independence

Munisha Savania (Bolton Council)

Engaging with those ‘at risk’ of vitamin D deficiency in Bradford

Sarah Lockyer (Public Health Bradford)

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Health Promotion and Improvement

Room: S 3 (Chair - Councillor Pat Karney)

The Effects of Daylight Savings Time (DST) Transition on Serious or Fatal Road Traffic Injuries in Great Britain: An Accident Subgroup Analysis

Adam Ali (Oxford University Hospitals)

Developing An Outcomes Framework For The Joint Health And Wellbeing Strategy: The Manchester Approach

Neil Bendel (Manchester City Council)

Bias in the estimation of adult body mass index from general practice records

Ellena Badrick (University of Manchester)

Clinical Practice and Public Health Research: a Transdisciplinary Feedback Cycle via ResearchOne

Samantha Crossfield (University of Leeds)

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Health Promotion and Improvement

Room: S 4 (Chair - Dr Peter Elton)

Quantitative investigation of the association between socioeconomic inequalities and youth crime

Mzwandile Andi Mabhala and Lydia Lukowa (University of Chester)

A transdisciplinary approach to preventing youth violence: A process evaluation of Medics Against Violence

Anna Gavine (University of St. Andrews)

The portrayal of violence, weapons and antisocial behaviour in televised music videos and associations with alcohol

Lucie Collinson (University of Otago Wellington)

Developing a multidisciplinary approach within the ED towards domestic violence presentations

Subhashis Basu (Sheffield Teaching Hospitals)

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Health Services Research

Room: S 5 (Chair - Professor Chris Roberts)

A qualitative exploration of the impact and acceptability of an intervention to improve people’s take-up of community-based support for self-management

Christian Blickem (University of Manchester)

Will Surgeons of the Future be Developmental Biologists?

Robert McFarlane (University of Manchester)

“Everyone’s business”? Mapping collaborative relationships between health and wellbeing managers

Vicky Ward (University of Leeds)

The experiences of nursing staff leading primary and public healthcare in Scottish police custody cells: A qualitative study

Paul Linsley (University of Lincoln)

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The Future of Public Health

Room: S 6 (Chair - Dr Marko Petrovic, Co-Chair - Helen Gollins)

HPV Vaccination & Cervical Cancer Screening Programmes: Reducing cervical cancer incidence - what can we learn from Europe?

Sumayyah Mian (University of Manchester)

Premature mortality in Drug Users

Hella Buchmann and Hedayat Javidi (University of Manchester

Measles Outbreak: Understanding transmission and evaluating response

Amarjodh Landa and Richard Wilson (University of Manchester)

Interventions to reduce childhood obesity

Michael Bourke (University of Manchester)

Port Health

James Dunn and Jack Southern (University of Manchester)