Conference Programme 2021

The conference will be a virtual conference held on Friday 26 November, 2021. You can book your place at the conference through the HG3 booking website here.

* We gratefully acknowledge the NIHR School for Public Health Research for sponsoring prizes at the conference *

10:00 Welcome and introduction to the day

Charlotte Vrinten

10:05 Creativity and innovation in public health science

  1. ‘Dear Doctor’: Results from a randomised controlled trial of a text message intervention to reduce burnout in trainee anaesthetists – Alix Brazier
  2. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on psychotropic medication uptake in Northern Ireland: a population wide trend analysis – Lisa Kent
  3. ‘I’ve found the whole thing very isolating’: A qualitative study exploring the role of people providing informal support to survivors of domestic abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic – Alison Gregory
  4. How do income changes impact on mental health for working-age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis – Rachel Thomson
  5. Linking fathers and children in administrative data for public health research: A systematic scoping review – Irina Lut

10:45 Comfort break

11.00 New methodological approaches to public health science

  1. It’s been up and down’: a qualitative study exploring the perspectives on living through COVID-19 for individuals who experience homelessness – Emma Adams
  2. Epidemiology of pre-existing multimorbidity in pregnant women in the UK in 2018: a cross sectional study using CPRD, SAIL and SMR – Sian Ing Lee 
  3. Creating an e-cohort of unpaid carers and understanding their mental health needs in Wales: a data linkage study – Fangzhou Huang
  4. Mortality outcomes of care-experienced children: evidence from Children’s Health in Care in Scotland (CHiCS), a population-wide administrative data cohort study – Denise Brown
  5. Understanding the potentials and pitfalls of using digital phenotypes to measure population mental health and well-being – Valerio Maggio

11.40 Lightning presentations session A

12.30 Lunch break

13.00 Implementing public health science in policy and practice

  1. Resilience of elective cancer surgery systems during COVID-19 lockdowns: international, prospective cohort study of planned surgery for 15 tumour types in 61 countries – James Glasbey & Aneel Bhangu
  2. Challenges to self-isolation among contacts of cases of COVID-19: a national telephone survey in Wales – Kate Isherwood
  3. Scientific advice and Covid-19 policy making in the UK: an oral history study – Paul Atkinson
  4. Collaborating or challenging: public health roles in alcohol premises licensing, a multi-stakeholder qualitative interview study – Rachel O’Donnell
  5. Impact of restricting advertising of products high in fat, sugar and salt across the London transport network on food and drink purchasing: a controlled interrupted time series using longitudinal purchase data – Amy Yau

13.40 Lightning presentations session B

14.30 Keynote speech

Katherine Trebeck

15.00 Closing remarks and prize announcement 

Audrey Ceschia, The Lancet Public Health