See below for provisional poster groupings. Theme names and groupings are subject to minor changes.

Presenter	Title	Theme
Cornelia Guell	Understanding friction points in making national active sustainable travel policy work in coastal rural local government: an in-depth qualitative policy analysis	Built environment
Anna Le Gouais	A qualitative study evaluating a health evidence intervention with local government for influencing healthier urban development	Built environment
Caroline Jane Hart	Housing tenure and acute lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) admissions in two Scottish birth cohorts.	Built environment
Amy Hookway	Are flood early warning systems effective for mitigating the health impacts of flooding? A scoping review.	Built environment
Catherine L. Jenkins	The development of cities as settings for health in the UK: a document analysis	Built environment
Amy Stevenson	Exploring the gendered health impacts of sustainable urban development models on women: a systematic review.	Built environment
Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes	Association between gender equality and climate adaptation across the globe: an ecological study	Climate change and air pollution
Natasha Judd	Public perceptions of climate change and health in Wales: A national cross-sectional survey	Climate change and air pollution
Sarah Patricia Slight	A systematic review of the optimal strategies to communicate the risk of air pollution exposure to underserved groups	Climate change and air pollution
Louisa Chenciner	Associations between extreme heat and hospital length of stay among those hospitalised with cardiovascular disease in Greater London: A population-based longitudinal study between 2007– 2019	Climate change and air pollution
Louisa Chenciner	Healthier, Cleaner, Faster: A review of health impacts of climate change in Oxfordshire and supporting evidence for locally led climate action for public health in the UK	Climate change and air pollution
Sarah Patricia Slight	Developing a “proof-of-concept” risk score to predict multimorbidity healthcare utilisation with poor air quality; a modelling study.	Climate change and air pollution
Masuma Pervin Mishu	Exploring the association between mental health and extreme weather events related to climate change: a scoping review	Climate change and air pollution
Alice Roberts	Exploring secondary school staff views of potential interventions in the school food and drink environment: A qualitative study	Food and food systems
Cinja Jostock	The characteristics and impact of interventions in small food stores and restaurants to support healthier diets: Two systematic reviews	Food and food systems
Alice Louise O’Hagan	Assessing adherence to Government’s sugar, salt, and calorie reduction targets of the top 20 UK restaurants’ menus in 2024: A cross-sectional study	Food and food systems
Chiara Gericke	From Textbooks to Takeaways: A Geospatial Analysis of Clustering of Takeaway Outlets near London Schools	Food and food systems
Margarida Bica	Nutrient Profile Models for Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labelling: A Systematic Review	Food and food systems
Mathuramat Seesen	Consumption of low-calorie sweetened products and trends in intakes of free sugar, energy, and dietary components among UK adults: a cross-sectional study	Food and food systems
Ilsa Louisa Haeusler	The prevalence and risk factors of food insecurity in an inner-city London borough between 2021 and 2023: annual cross-sectional surveys	Food and food systems
Hywel Turner Evans	Excluding domains from a composite measure of deprivation in a retrospective routine health data study: the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation	Health inequalities 1
Sarah Wilson	Strategies to advance digital health equity: a qualitative study with underserved groups.	Health inequalities 1
Robert Oxley	Improving Access to Free School Meals: Evaluating the Implementation of a New Free School Meal Auto-Enrolment Process.	Health inequalities 1
Stephanie Smits	Inequalities in Cancer Incidence in Wales by Protected Characteristics: A Population-Based Cohort Study	Health inequalities 1
Samuel Cusworth	Inequalities in the diagnosis of 275 chronic conditions in UK primary care between 2006-2021: a cohort study	Health inequalities 1
Meena Kumari	Cross-sectional association between area deprivation and biological ageing: evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study	Health inequalities 1
Grace Turner	Addressing access to greenspace and health inequalities in England: policy and systematic literature review	Health inequalities 2
Ellie Louisa Gilham	National Reporting on factors associated with health inequalities and infection, antimicrobial resistance and consumption rates in England: 2018-2022.	Health inequalities 2
Mackenzie Fong	The association between socioeconomic deprivation and surgical risk factors in patients on the elective surgery waiting list in the North East and North Cumbria region of England: a retrospective analysis of linked cross-sectional data	Health inequalities 2
Ruth Kamla Sharma	A qualitative study exploring food insecurity amongst asylum seekers’ families in England	Health inequalities 2
Fatai Ogunlayi	Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cardiometabolic risk factors: Analysis of the repeated cross-sectional Health Surveys for England between 2003 and 2019	Health inequalities 2
Giorgia Previdoli	Fair Food Futures UK: a mixed method study exploring approaches adopted by community food organisations to respond to food insecurity in Bradford and Tower Hamlets, London, UK	Health inequalities 2
Alena Kamenshchikova	Qualitative research on catch-up vaccination with Russian speaking migrants in the United Kingdom: Potential opportunities beyond primary care	Health of minoritised and underserved populations 1
Hongyi Sun	Daily alcohol consumption among UK homeless people during Covid-19: a latent class and cross-sectional study	Health of minoritised and underserved populations 1
Sophia Brady	Exploring ethnic minority and underserved groups’ experiences of Cardiovascular Disease Annual check uptake in North East England: applying a behavioural insights, co-designed qualitative approach	Health of minoritised and underserved populations 1
Catherine Eleanor Wells	Risk factors and vulnerabilities amongst people who died whilst homeless or with a housing support need: a mixed-methods analysis of client case histories in a UK local authority area	Health of minoritised and underserved populations 1
Jessica Carter	Defining the Role of Primary Care in Hepatitis B Elimination in the UK Migrant Context, a Mixed-Methods Study	Health of minoritised and underserved populations 1
Michiyo Iwami	Interventions and facilitators to increase uptake of HPV vaccination in migrants communities: a systematic review	Health of minoritised and underserved populations 1
Umar Ahmed Riaz Chaudhry	Comparison of Mortality in People with Type 2 Diabetes between different Ethnic Groups: Systematic review and Meta-analysis of Longitudinal Studies	Health of minoritised and underserved populations 2
Betul Yalcin	Ethnic Differences in Pre-hospital Care: A Mixed Method Study	Health of minoritised and underserved populations 2
Jo Dawes	Prevalence, risks and outcomes of frailty in people experiencing homelessness: secondary analysis of a cross-sectional survey	Health of minoritised and underserved populations 2
Steven Anthony Thirkle	Exploring the network of support for people experiencing homelessness in rural and coastal areas of North-East England: a mixed-methods social network analysis	Health of minoritised and underserved populations 2
Floor Christie-de Jong	Mixed-methods evaluation of a co-designed peer-led intervention to tackle barriers to early diagnosis of prostate cancer for Black men in North-East England and Scotland	Health of minoritised and underserved populations 2
Farah Seedat	Incidence, risk factors, and diagnostic delays of hepatitis B among migrants in Denmark: A matched cohort study	Health of minoritised and underserved populations 2
Joseph Evans	A retrospective audit of MMR vaccine uptake in children outside the national immunisation schedule in an urban Sheffield general practice- opportunity amidst a measles outbreak.	Healthcare delivery
Michael James Taylor	Evolving occupational health needs for the Adult Social Care workforce due to changing migration patterns: A cross-sectional study	Healthcare delivery
Suzy Cooke	The Virtual Patient: a training tool for healthcare staff to have helpful conversations about healthy weight using a Making Every Contact Count (MECC) approach	Healthcare delivery
Odessa S. Hamilton	A Comparative Study of Immune and Neuroendocrine Protein Biomarkers with Latent Profiles in All-Cause Hospitalisation: A Time-To-Event Analysis.	Healthcare delivery
Ruth Ponsford	The implementation of statutory relationships and sex education in English secondary schools: a qualitative study with school staff	Healthcare delivery
Nicola Catania	Exploring Perceptions and Experience of Colposcopy: Insights from a Cross-Sectional Survey and Thematic Analysis	Healthcare delivery
Jo Dunnett	Health literacy: Reducing inequalities in healthcare access through changing the reading age of healthcare material: a mixed-methods pilot study.	Healthcare delivery
Mosfer Ali Alwalah	Evaluating the Acceptability of “I’m an Active Hero” (IAAH): A Qualitative Process Evaluation of a Preschool-Based Physical Activity Intervention Feasibility Trial	Infant and child health
Rochelle Embling	Expert opinions on an optimal infant feeding quantitative data framework: A mixed methods Delphi-style study	Infant and child health
Megan Elliott	Increasing uptake of Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccination (LAIV) in two-year-olds through appointment times and dates: A pilot intervention in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board	Infant and child health
Nancy Bhardwaj	Breastfeeding Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of General Practitioners, General Practitioner trainees and General Practice Nurse’s in Ireland: A Cross Sectional Cohort Survey.	Infant and child health
Louise Mc Grath-Lone	Health visiting in the first year of life in England: a longitudinal analysis of linked administrative data (Community Services Dataset) 2016-2020	Infant and child health
Bethan Harries	The Portrayal of Loneliness on TikTok: A Cross-Sectional Study of Popular English-Language Videos	Infant and child health
Dan Shan	Temporal association between COVID-19 infection and subsequent new-onset dementia in older adults (aged 60 years and above): a systematic review and meta-analysis	Older adult health
Mikaela Bloomberg	Joint associations of physical activity and sleep with transitions to cognitive impairment and dementia: analysis of a prospective English cohort study	Older adult health
Haoyue Guo	Older Chinese Migrants’ perspectives on remote delivery of primary care services in the UK – an interview study	Older adult health
Lu Liu	Associations between depression and mortality up to 15-years after stroke: a population-based cohort study	Older adult health
Sebastian Walsh	How many future dementia cases would be missed by a high-risk screening programme? A retrospective cohort study in a population-based cohort	Older adult health
Catherine Carey	Estimating the potential impact of pneumococcal vaccination for new residents entering care homes for older adults in England	Older adult health
Mohammad Sharif Razai	Navigating Vaccination in Pregnancy: Qualitative Study in 21 Ethnically Diverse Pregnant Women	Pregnancy and maternal health
Ruth Victoria Pritchett	Emergency maternal hospital readmissions in the postnatal period:  A population-based cohort study	Pregnancy and maternal health
Iona Dominique Hindes	Inequalities in preterm birth in England: a national cohort study focusing on deprivation and ethnicity.	Pregnancy and maternal health
Malcolm Moffat	Women’s experiences of postnatal contraception care while breastfeeding – a multi-methods cross-sectional study	Pregnancy and maternal health
Sian Harrison	Early employment after childbirth: A cross-sectional analysis using data from the National Maternity Survey in England	Pregnancy and maternal health
Aimee Challenger	Understanding the main causes of death of those in custody in Wales (2013-2022): A cross-sectional analysis	Public health policy
Sara Kathryn Wood	Policy and legislative approaches to address the social determinants of violence against children: an umbrella review.	Public health policy
Genevieve Buckland	The quantitative evaluation of the impact of a new outdoor advertising restrictions policy in Bristol: a natural experiment evaluation.	Public health policy
Lucia Homolova	Evaluating the impact of the Public Health Wales Winter Respiratory Vaccines Communication Campaign 2022-23 on vaccination uptake in Wales: an investigation using controlled interrupted time series methods	Public health policy
Simon Newstead	www.splossary.wales : A social prescribing tool for public and professions.	Public health policy
Aoibheann Brennan-Wilson	What Research Evidence Is Needed to Address Violence Against Women? Key Messages from A Scoping Review of Research on Violence Against Women During COVID-19.	Public health policy
Effie Marathia	Unassisted smoking cessation in Scotland: A mixed-method exploration of strategies and motivations	Smoking and vaping
Ciara Marie Edel Reynolds	The effects of vaping on children and adolescent health: A review of systematic reviews.	Smoking and vaping
Pamela Smith	How might the provision of smoking cessation services be adapted to improve uptake and success for people in low socioeconomic groups? A qualitative study (PROCESS Study)	Smoking and vaping
Rochelle Embling	Secondary schoolchildren and young people’s perceptions of vaping and nicotine dependence: Insights from a qualitative focus group study.	Smoking and vaping
Alice Coffey	Evaluating the nutritional availability of vegetarian and vegan diets: a cross-sectional analysis of dietary data for UK children ages 2-12	Smoking and vaping
Talia Boshari	Co-producing a model of asylum seeker and refugee collaboration in regional health policy and practice: a qualitative applied research methodology	Stakeholder-engaged research
Petra Sylvia Meier	Wellbeing Economy and Health: an applied case study of co-producing system thinking and modelling tools to inform local and national policy in England and Scotland	Stakeholder-engaged research
Daniel Jones	Association of cultural participation with morbidity in the Welsh Population: An observational study	Stakeholder-engaged research
Sebastian Stannard	Co-production of a stakeholder workshop to inform multimorbidity prevention research: working with public contributors to ask the right questions (The MELD-B experience)	Stakeholder-engaged research
Sarah K Harding	Qualitative evaluation of the new outdoor advertising restrictions policy in Bristol: stakeholder perspectives on the policy implementation.	Stakeholder-engaged research
Julius Cesar P Alejandre	Scotland’s model of a blue-green prescribing programme for primary mental healthcare: a participatory co-creation workshop with Q-Methodology	Stakeholder-engaged research

The provisional ordering of oral presentations is in the tables below. Note that this is subject to change and a finalised timetable will be sent to presenters prior to the conference.

Session 1 – 9.40am

Basil McDonald	How do local public health teams in North Wales consider their role in influencing the obesogenic environment through planning processes? A qualitative study.
Isra Al-Sharabi	Qualitative Research: A framework to guide the commissioning of healthcare services for people seeking asylum in England
Enfys Hâf Preece	“I’m losing faith in everything”: a qualitative study to understand barriers to accessing suitable mental health support for children and young people in Wales
Emma Ross	Risk of suicide following suicidal or self-harm ideation: a population-wide observational cohort study using the Northern Ireland Registry of Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideation.
Louise Mc Grath-Lone	How has local authority expenditure on public health services for 0 to 5-year-olds in England changed over time? An analysis of national administrative data from 2016/17 to 2022/23.

Session 2 – 11.40am

Majel McGranahan	Preconception health among migrant women in England: a cross-sectional analysis of maternity services data 2018-2019
Julie Cowie	Enjoy Life LocallY (ELLY): feasibility study of a community co-designed incentive intervention to support healthy weight and wellbeing.
Carolyn Ingram	How do homeless service users view their own health and healthcare? An ethnographic study
Miranda Geddes-Barton	Maternal and infant outcomes for women experiencing homelessness, prior to and during pregnancy, in England: A retrospective cohort study.
Dom Higgins	A rapid economic assessment of individual Wildlife Trusts’ ‘Natural Health Services’.

Session 3 – 3.20pm

Sarah Milton	Accumulating inequalities: a qualitative life history examination of how processes of racism and racialisation impact on maternal health among British Somali women in the UK.
Alexandra L Creavin	Public Health Communication and multi-disciplinary NHS Workload relating to Group A Streptococcus: A Retrospective Observational Study
Yekta Saidi	Using Bayesian networks to explore differences in the relationships of factors related to mental health for LGBTQ+ and non-LGBTQ+ adolescents in a UK cohort study.
Maxine Radcliffe	Women’s experiences of homelessness in high income contexts: Evidence from a meta-ethnographic systematic review
Marissa J. Smith	Co-production of an advocacy video with adolescents on e-cigarette advertising in Scotland

Some notes on the progress of this year’s conference organisation:

• Final abstract decisions will be disseminated to authors on or before Sept 16th
• Registration will open early September.
• The pre-conference dinner will be held on Thursday 28th Nov. at The Botanist, Cardiff Central . Delegates will be able to register for the dinner during the main conference registration process. Limited places on first come, first served basis.

Key Info

Conference venue: Sophia Gardens, Cardiff (Venue website | Google Maps pin)

Date: Thursday 28th and Friday 29th November 2024 – Note the main conference takes place on the Friday with the early career researcher event and conference dinner taking place on the Thursday afternoon and evening, respectively.

Registration: Available from September. Please join the mailing list to be informed when it is avaialble.

Abstract submission deadline: Monday 20th May 2024 – Detailed abstract guidance can be found here.

Call for abstracts: See The Lancet or this page on the current website.

Poster presentation and oral presentation guidelines to follow.

Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
Friday November 29th 2024
Abstract submission deadline: Monday May 20th 2024

We are delighted to invite abstract submissions for UK Public Health Science: A National Conference Dedicated to New Research in UK Public Health that will be held in Cardiff on Friday November 29th, 2024. This annual conference showcases leading innovative public health research from across the UK and Ireland with accepted submissions published online by The Lancet. The conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and experts by experience to share and discuss contemporary issues, perspectives, and challenges in public health science and explore their impacts for practice, policy, health services, and research.

Abstracts are welcomed from people and groups working across all sectors and disciplines on topics related to any aspect of public health in the UK or Ireland. Relevant research is invited from the national health services, local authorities, charities and advocacy services, government bodies, universities, or other research bodies. This cross-sectoral approach makes for a fascinating and valuable event where participants can be inspired by novel world-class research.

Conference themes – Alongside the overall focus on public health science, this year’s conference will explore the connection between healthy neighbourhoods, the built environment, and public health from a multidisciplinary perspective. Cities have a central role in shaping population health. Understanding and optimising the built environment within urban settings is vital for cultivating health-promoting spaces. Submissions are invited* that address evidence-based interventions and policies relating to not only the physical aspects of neighbourhoods, but also to the quality of the air, reduction of noise pollution, and mitigation of other environmental stressors. By highlighting these issues, the conference seeks to stimulate discussions that can inform policies, interventions, and research initiatives dedicated to fostering healthier communities and mitigating the impact of environmental pollutants on population health. 

*Note: Abstracts on all aspects of public health are welcomed and do not have to address this theme. 

Conference structure – The conference will consist of oral paper presentations, chaired poster sessions, and keynote speeches. All abstracts will be considered for oral presentation. Abstracts can be submitted under any of the three core categories: creativity in public health science; new methodological approaches to public health science; or impact and implementation of public health science in policy and practice. Research described in the abstracts may have been undertaken anywhere in the world but must be relevant to public health science, practice, and policy in the UK or Ireland. We particularly encourage submissions that include experts by experience or early career researchers.

The conference will be preceded by an early career researcher event and networking conference dinner on Thursday November 28th, 2024. In line with our ongoing commitment to work towards delivering a net-zero conference, details of the conference carbon reduction plans and carbon offsetting will also be published on the conference website in due course.

Prizes – Prizes for best oral and best poster presentation will be awarded in two categories. The first category is for presentations by an early career researcher. These prizes will be generously provided and awarded by the NIHR School of Public Health Research. This category is open to pre-PhD researchers (eg, MSc student, foundation year trainee, research assistant, public health trainee, or academic clinical fellow), PhD students, postdoctoral trainees (eg, clinical lecturers, clinician scientist fellows, early career post-doctoral, or equivalent posts), and researchers from other pathways that self-identify as being early in their career. 

The second category of prizes recognises that experts with lived and living experience of public health issues have a crucial role in shaping and carrying out impactful research. Abstract submissions for this category are particularly encouraged from, or in collaboration with, experts by experience where the research shows meaningful involvement of people with lived experience. These prizes are kindly sponsored by University College London’s online Master of Public Health programme, which has lived experience involvement as one of its core underpinning values and cross-cutting themes.

Abstract instructions – All abstracts should be 300 words or fewer, written in English, and structured with the following sections: background (which should provide context and briefly outline the research aim); methods; findings; and interpretation. Submissions must not contain references, tables, or figures. Abstracts should include the following: a non-declaratory title that includes a study descriptor (eg, retrospective cohort study, randomised controlled trial, ethnographic study); names, titles, highest degrees, and affiliations of authors; postal and email address for the corresponding author and (if different) the presenting author; whether any of the authors are considered experts by experience; whether the presenting author is an early career researcher; any funding received (please also state if none); and a brief summary of each author’s contributions and competing interests (please also state if none). Abstracts should not have been published elsewhere and must include some results (results of ongoing analyses are acceptable). Reports of randomized controlled trials should follow the CONSORT extension for abstracts. Abstract guidelines are available on The Lancet’s website. Any abstracts that do not follow these formatting requirements will be rejected without peer review.

Abstracts need to be submitted through The Lancet’s online submission system and should be Microsoft Word documents. A covering letter should be included stating the submission is for the UK Public Health Science conference 2024. All submissions will undergo peer review. The deadline for abstract submission is Monday May 20th, 2024. The authors of successful submissions will be informed by Monday September 16th, 2024.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you all in Cardiff, The Lancet UK Public Health Science conference committee.

The conference will be in London, UK, at 15Hatfields, Chadwick Court, London, SE1 8DJ, https://www.15hatfields.com/ on Friday 24 November 2023. You can book your place at the conference through the Hg3 booking website here. The conference will be preceded by an Early Career Researcher (ECR) event (1-4pm) on Thursday 23 November. You can register for the ECR event at the same time as the conference via the Hg3 booking link:

https://www.eventsforce.net/hg3/269/home

8:30	Registration and coffee
9:00	Welcome and housekeeping – Charlotte Vrinten
9:10	Keynote address: Professor Andrew Steptoe, UCL.
9:30	Keynote address: Derek Walker, Future Generations Commissioner, Wales.
9:50	Session 1: Creativity and innovation in public health science  Goal setting as part of a holistic intervention to promote independence in older people with mild frailty: A process evaluation alongside a randomised controlled trial –Yolanda Barrado-Martin Workplace bullying and harassment: prevalence, nature and associations with mental health conditions in a cross-sectional probability sample survey of England – Annie Bunce Explaining differential socioeconomic effects in population health interventions: Development and application of a new tool to classify intervention agentic demand – Kate Garrott Engaging the ‘hard to engage’: Lessons from a qualitative evaluation of the Gateway programme, aimed at improving health and life chances for young people committing low-level offences – Inna Walker Association between care experience and mental health hospitalisation among children in Scotland, with a focus on chronic conditions (CHiCS): A population-wide longitudinal study using administrative data – Edit Gedeon  Panel discussion with chairs and presenters
11:00	Tea & coffee break and poster viewing
11:30	Keynote address – Professor Hilary Graham, University of York
12:00	Session 2: New methodological approaches to public health science  Better informing everyday fall risk assessment: Experimental studies with contemporary technologies – Jason Moore Profiles of tobacco smokers and ex-smokers using unsupervised machine learning cluster analysis in a large-scale random sample survey across Wales – Annette Evans A cross-sectional study of peer effects on health-related behaviours of adolescents in Scotland using social network analysis – Srebrenka Letina HEALTHEI Project scoping review: Understanding the use of media analysis in public health research through food tax debates – Rachel Headings  Hospital admissions for physical health and psychosocial adversity among people experiencing homelessness in England: A population-based retrospective cross-sectional study – Serena Luchenski  Panel discussion with chairs and presenters
13:15	Lunch & chaired poster viewing
14:30	Keynote address – Professor Tracy Daszkiewicz, Faculty of Public Health
15:00	Tea & coffee break and poster viewing
15:20	Session 3: Implementing public health science in policy and practice  Social responses to stigma: An ethnographic case study of stigma and discrimination and its homeless and health system contexts in South London – Andy Guise and River Újhadbora Using a participatory approach to encouraging uptake of breast, colorectal, and cervical cancer screening for Scottish Muslim women – Floor Christie-de Jong Population-level interventions for the primary prevention of dementia: A complex evidence review – Sebastian Walsh  Evaluating the impact of minimum unit pricing for alcohol in Scotland: A theory-based synthesis of the evidence – Chris Patterson Using the Doughnut Economics framework to structure whole-systems thinking in socioecological wellbeing with multidisciplinary stakeholders: An applied case study in Glasgow, Scotland – Annika Hjelmskog  Panel discussion with chairs and presenters
16:30	Prize announcements ECR prizes – Professor Ashley Adamson Lived experience prizes – Serena Luchenski, University College London & Stan Burridge Expert Focus
16:45	Closing address – Dr Jessamy Bagenal
17:00	End of conference

Group 1: Covid

1. The Sussex COVID-19 Modelling Cell: the methods and successes of a collaboration between local authorities, NHS hospital trusts, NHS commissioners, and universities – Anjum Memon
2. Infodemiology: untangling the relationship between mental distress, trust in the pandemic response, and COVID-19 health literacy during the COVID-19 infodemic in Ireland – Julie Arnott
3. Gender inequalities in the disruption of long-term life satisfaction trajectories during COVID-19: evidence from a prospective cohort study in the UK – Darío Moreno-Agostino
4. Impact of Long Covid on work: findings from a co-produced survey – Nida Ziauddeen
5. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on delayed care of cardiovascular diseases in Europe: a systematic review – Yasmine Khan

Group 2: Substance use and policy

6. E-cigarette attitudes and behaviours among 15 to 30-year-olds in the UK – Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes
7. Associations of social media use with smoking and e-cigarettes: a national longitudinal study – Anthony Laverty
8. Associations between parental smoking and teenage alcohol and drug use -a longitudinal analysis of the Growing Up in Ireland cohort study – Salome Sunday
9. Health, economic and equity consequences of future tobacco control policies in England, a microsimulation study – Vincy Huang
10. Building the case for a coherent policy approach to tobacco, alcohol and foods high in fats, salt or sugar using qualitative methods – Alaa JAwad

Group 3: Physical activity

11. Modelling the health burden of air pollution in the UK using updated exposure-risk relationships – Karn Vohra
12. The Walking In ScHools (WISH) Study, a peer-led walking intervention for adolescent girls: Results of a clustered randomised controlled trial – Maria O’Kane
13. Physical activity in outdoor spaces, sleep quality and general health: a pilot/ feasibility study – Thayse Gomes
14. Prospective analysis of the dose-response of accelerometer-measured physical activity, step count, and cancer risk in the UK Biobank – Alaina Shreves
15. Effectiveness of interventions for improving physical activity level in working-age people (aged 18-60 years) with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Xiaoyan Zhao

Group 4: Digital health and healthcare public health innovation

16. Application of triangulation of qualitative analyses to co-design an intervention to improve the quality of written communication at patient discharge – Ola Markiewicz
17. Comparing patient journey and costs through a Brain Health Clinic with a memory clinic – Lucy Cunningham
18. Understanding ethnic inequalities in the design and implementation of digital health interventions for cardiometabolic disease: a qualitative study – Mel Ramasawmy
19. Nowcasting waiting lists for elective procedures and surgery in England: a modelling study – Dmitri Nepogodiev
20. Medical cyber-crises and biotechnological syndromes: a multi-site clinical simulation study focused on digital health complaints – Isabel Straw

Group 5: Migrant and inclusion health

21. Lessons Learned from Co-Production in Public Health Research: The MAMAH Study Involving Underserved Migrant Mothers in the UK – Kerrie Stevenson
22. Recording and Analysing Ethnicity in Public Health Research: A Bibliographical Review and Focus Group Discussions with young migrants and refugees in the UK – Joseph Lam
23. The Medical Consequences of “Contingency Accommodation” for People Seeking Asylum: Thematic analysis of a survey from professionals working in contingency accommodation – Joanna Dobbin
24. A co-produced qualitative systematic review of the international evidence on lived experiences of trauma during homelessness and impacts on mental health (including substance use) – Emma Adams
25. Interventions to improve access to primary care for inclusion health groups in England: a scoping review – Elspeth Carruters
26. A mixed method study of GP registration for inclusion health groups in England – Ada Humphrey

Group 6: Inequalities and marginalised populations

27. Determinants of lipid clinic referral and attendance in a multi-ethnic adult population in South London: a cross-sectional study – Aya Ayoub
28. Surviving stomach bugs in UK ethnic groups: a qualitative study – Iram Zahair
29. A concept mapping approach to assess factors influencing the delivery of community-based salon interventions to prevent cardiovascular disease and breast cancer among ethnically diverse women in South London – Maham Zaman
30. Interventions to improve oral health and related health behaviours of substance use, smoking and diet in people with severe and multiple disadvantage: a systematic review of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness – Deepti John
31. Exploring substance misuse in prison: A cross-sectional analysis – Benjamin Gray
32. A three-year review of deaths in those under community supervision in Wales: A cross-sectional analysis – Benjamin Gray

Group 7: Ageing and health 

33. Tracing the Temporal Trends of Modifiable Risk Factors in Dementia: Insights from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2004-2019) – Chen Shaquan
34. Factors associated with multimorbidity: An analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing – Yvonne Nartey
35. Attitudes to long-term care in India – A secondary analysis – Sweedal Alberts
36. The heterogeneous impacts of China’s hierarchical medical system reforms on health service utilisation and health outcomes among elderly populations: a longitudinal quasi-experimental study – Chang Cai
37. How does the environment in and around the home impact social care and health outcomes for older people? A national longitudinal dynamic cohort study – William Midgley

Group 8: Healthy ageing interventions

38. Service Evaluation: Dementia Actif: An evaluation of dementia friendly exercise and well-being programme – Ceryl Davies
39. How does Mild Cognitive Impairment in older adults impact the type of goals set and progress towards these goals, in a behaviour change intervention? – a mixed methods review of goals set in an RCT – Tasmin Rookes
40. Enabling health and maintaining independence for older people at home: the ‘HomeHealth’ randomised controlled trial – Rachel Frost
41. Gait retraining to reduce falls: An experimental study toward scalable and personalised use in the home – Conor Wall
42. Arts and cultural group participation and subsequent wellbeing: A longitudinal analysis of older adults in Japan and England using doubly robust estimators – Jessica Bone
43. Characteristics and consequences of participatory research approaches in long-term care facilities for older adults: a meta-ethnography of qualitative studies – Sophie Gaber

Group 9: Food environment and policy

44. “I don’t think it’s just parents”: reflecting on parental insights into healthy lifestyles – Judith Lunn
45. What are the causal effects of later eating rhythm on adiposity in children? Evidence from comparing two cohorts in the UK and China – Mengxuan Zou
46. Food insecurity and diet quality in households accessing food membership clubs in Wessex – Nida Ziauddeen
47. Household food insecurity and child health outcomes: a rapid review of mechanisms and associations – Sarah Abraham
48. Changes in food and drink purchasing behaviour in England during the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interrupted time series analysis – Alexandra Kalbus
49. A mixed methods study to identify tax options for high fat, sugar, salt foods for the HEALTHEI Project – Natalie Connor

Group 10: Child and adolescent health

50. Physical health of care-experienced young children in high-income countries: a scoping review – Daniel Bradford
51. Growth-screening in early childhood. A qualitative study of parental and health visitor perceptions – Tahmid Rahman
52. The wider health and wellbeing needs of those accessing paediatric care in England: engaging with the hidden voices of children and young people – Avni Hindocha
53. The odds of gambling among adolescents – Results from a secondary analysis of the cross-sectional ‘European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs’ (ESPAD) – Ciara Reynolds
54. Engaging young people to tackle an emerging public health problem; a cross-sectional study evaluating the effectiveness of interactive workshops to raise awareness about the neurological harms associated with nitrous oxide use – Devan Mair
55. Exploring the cross-sectional association between friendship quality and subjective wellbeing in adolescents –Abdullah Alsarrani

Group 11: Mental health 

56. Adolescent emotional well-being beyond COVID-19: The role of the multiple Index of deprivation in predicting mental health outcomes – Judith Lunn
57. More play and fewer screens – a way to improve preschoolers’ mental health? Cross-sectional findings from the British Preschool-children’s Play Survey – Kathryn Hesketh
58. Social determinants and risk factors of mental health trajectories during mid-life: Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study – Christoph Henking
59. A mixed methods study using co-production to explore food insecurity in adults with severe mental illness living in Northern England – Emma Giles
60. The moderating effect of country-level health determinants on the relationship between hobby engagement and mental health: longitudinal models, multi-level models, meta-analyses and meta-regressions involving 93,263 older adults in 16 countries – Daisy Fancourt
61. Trajectories of depressive symptoms 10-year after stroke and associated risk factors: a prospective cohort study –Lu Liu

Group 12: Workplace and workforce

62. Experiences of menopause in the Welsh NHS workplace: A focus group study – Gemma Hobson
63. How can workplace charters reduce health inequalities for employees? A qualitative study of West Yorkshire business leaders – Sulia Celebi
64. ‘Undermined and gaslit’: qualitative semi-structured interviews exploring the experiences of shielding junior doctors and the value of a diverse medical workforce – Amy Martin
65. Public Health Qualifications, Motivation and Experience of Pharmacy Professionals: an exploratory study with Pharmacy and Public Health Professionals – Diane Ashiru-Oredope
66. The protective effect of trade unions on workers’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK – Theocharis Kromydas
67. A rapid realist review of workplace health initiatives: What works, for whom, in what contexts, and how? – Mackenzie Fong

Group 13: Non-communicable diseases

68. TRial to Assess Implementation of New research findings in a primary care Setting (TRAINS Study): A Pragmatic Cluster RCT of a Letter to GP Practices to Promote Asthma Prescription During Summer Holiday in Primary Care – Rami Alyami
69. Autoimmune diseases and adverse pregnancy outcomes: an Umbrella Review – Megha Singh
70. Minority community group uptake of diabetes follow-up checks: A rapid review of the evidence – Llinos Haf Spencer
71. Using the 2021 UK Medical Research Council Guidance to refine the Women’s Wellness with Type 2 Diabetes Programme – Deniz Bozkurt
72. Evaluating the effectiveness of Community Health Worker interventions on glycaemic control in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis – Joseph Evans
73. The estimation of HbA1c after weight loss using a beta-regression for an economic evaluation of a behavioural weight management programme – Katharine Pidd

Group 14: Cancer screening and early diagnosis

74. Randomised controlled trial of an SMS and animated video intervention to increase breast cancer screening uptake – Gaby Judah
75. Modelling the impact of risk stratification by polygenic risk and age on breast cancer screening in women aged 40-49 – Catherine Huntley
76. Developing and piloting an intervention to reduce colposcopy non-attendance and corresponding inequalities: A mixed methods study – Allison Cowling
77. Impact of Behavioural Science Informed Messaging on Uptake of Targeted Lung Health Checks: A Service Evaluation – Maira Salman
78. A qualitative study on the impact on early diagnosis behaviours of health communications to raise awareness of the relative risk of age and cancer – Charlotte Ide-Walters
79. Mixed methods cross-sectional evaluation of an early diagnosis mass media campaign, targeting older adults in Northern Ireland – Charlotte Ide-Walters 

Group 15: Public Health in practice 

80. Governments policy measures to address obesity among adults: A scoping review of the global evidence – Fadwa Alrubaian
81. Surge of lower respiratory tract Group A Streptococcus infections in England in Winter 2022: Epidemiology and clinical profile – Neil Bray
82. Mitigation of RSV epidemics by RSVpreF post-COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: a modeling study – Zhanwei Du
83. Did anonymity in self-administered questionnaires improve disclosure of sensitive information during the 2022 Mpox outbreak in England? – Neil Bray
84. Consideration of factors associated with inequalities in interventions that support healthcare professionals’ interaction with patients to reduce inappropriate antimicrobial use: a systematic review – Abimbola Ayorinde
85. Deaths of Despair in England: An Observational Study of Local Authority Mortality Data – Christine Camacho

This year, the UK Public Health Science Conference Early Career Researcher (ECR) event is on Thursday 23 November, 1-4pm, at the Waterloo Action Centre.

The ECR event provides a platform for Early Career Researchers to connect and exchange knowledge and expertise.

This year’s exciting event is all about career development, both within and beyond academia. We will have a mixture of talks and interactive sessions.

Director of Public Health Alison Challenger will discuss job opportunities in public health, then Dr. Aradhna Kaushal will talk about Developing Skills for Public Engagement in Public Health Research. Dr Steve Joy will then lead an interactive workshop on career development.

After the formal event, there will be options for networking, socialising and dining with other ECRs ahead of the main conference on the Friday.