Public Health Science

We are delighted to invite abstract submissions for Public Health Science: A National Conference Dedicated to New Research in UK Public Health, to be held in Belfast, UK, on Nov 23, 2018. This is our seventh annual conference to showcase the creativity of the public health research community in the UK and Ireland. The conference provides a forum for academics, practitioners, and policy makers to discuss important public health issues, and learn about the latest public health science and its role in advancing and supporting public health practice, policy, and health services.

As with previous conferences, the event will consist of oral paper presentations, keynote speeches, and chaired poster presentations. The conference seeks to cover diverse public health fields and, on the basis of the feedback from previous years, there will be a focus on the wider determinants of health and implementation of public health science and on measuring its impact. We encourage submissions from a wide array of disciplines and new methodological approaches.

Abstracts from all areas of public health science are welcome and can be submitted under any of the following themes:

• creativity in public health science
• new methodological approaches to public health science
• impact and implementation of public health science in policy and practice.

Abstracts must be relevant to UK and Ireland public health science, policy, and practice. However, the work can have been completed, and submitted from, anywhere in the world.

In recognition of the talents of public health scientists, we will again be awarding oral and poster presentation prizes to early career researchers sponsored by NIHR School for Public Health Research and Public Health England. Presentation of innovative and memorable work by early career researchers enhances the scientific content of the conference and the participants’ experience. If you wish to be entered into the competition for early career researchers, please tell us if you are a pre-PhD researcher (eg, MSc student, foundation year trainee, research assistant, public health trainee, or academic clinical fellow), PhD student, or postdoctoral trainee (clinical lecturers, clinician scientist fellows, or equivalent posts) when you submit your abstract. A prize for the best piece of implementation research—sponsored by Public Health England—will also be selected from all submissions.

Peer-reviewed abstracts will be published by The Lancet online and in print. Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words, be written in English, and contain no references, tables, or figures. Submissions should include the following sections: background (including context and aim); methods; findings; and interpretation. Please also include a non-declamatory title (including a study descriptor—eg, randomised); names, titles, highest degrees, and affiliations of authors; postal and email addresses for the corresponding author; any funding received (if none, please state this); and a brief summary of the contributions of each author and any competing interests. Abstract guidelines are available on The Lancet‘s website. Reports of randomised trials should follow the CONSORT extension for abstracts guidance.

Submit your abstract as a Microsoft Word document through The Lancet’s online submission system, stating in your covering letter that the submission is for the Public Health Science conference. The abstract submission deadline is June 18, 2018. After The Lancet‘s peer-review process, successful participants will be informed of acceptance of abstracts for oral or poster presentation by Aug 25, 2018. This information and further details are available on the Public Health Science conference website.

Online booking for the conference is now also open here – https://www.eventsforce.net/hg3/129/home

We are delighted to announce the programme for Public Health Science 2017. The conference will be held in London at Mary Ward House, UK, on Nov 24, 2017. You can also book your place at the conference at the HG3 booking website here – https://registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/phs17

Programme

09.00	Welcome and introduction to the day Richard Horton, The Lancet Rob Aldridge, UCL
09.15	Creativity and innovation in public health science
	1.     Adaption of the ASSIST model of informal peer-led intervention delivery to the Talk to FRANK drug prevention programme in UK secondary schools (ASSIST+FRANK): a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. James White. 2.     The health impacts of UK Lone Parent Obligations: a natural experiment study using Understanding Society panel data. Ruth Dundas. 3.     Exposing ‘complexity’ as a smokescreen: a qualitative analysis. Natalie Savona. 4.     Economic and ethical implications of improving access to health care for older people with intellectual disabilities in England: A cost-effectiveness modeling study of health checks. Annette Bauer. 5.     Why was a judicial review required to allow the English NHS to fund pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV? Tehseen Khan.
10.30	Tea and coffee
11.00	New methodological approaches to public health science
	1.    Changing environments to change behaviour: Typology of Interventions in Proximal Physical Micro-Environments (TIPPME). Gareth Hollands. 2.     Modelling the cost-effectiveness of interventions to reduce traffic related air-pollution. Ann Ballinger. 3.     A discourse network analysis of minimum unit pricing for alcohol: mapping the “discursive communities” in UK newspaper coverage of the debate. Gillian Fergie.  4.     Implications of Brexit on the effectiveness of the UK soft drinks industry levy upon coronary heart disease in England: a modelling study. Paraskevi Seferidi. 5.     Reassessing patterns of childhood body mass index, overweight and obesity in South Asian and Black participants in the English National Child Measurement Programme: use of ethnicity-specific BMI adjustments. Mohammed Hudda.
12.30	Lunch and chaired poster viewing
14.00	Keynote Speech: How do we do the research that the public actually need? Helen Walters, National Institute for Health Research.
14.40	FPH membership for academics working in Public Health: a new Associate Membership?
15.00	Tea, coffee and poster viewing
15.30	Implementing public health science in policy and practice 1.     PACE-UP primary care pedometer-based walking randomised controlled trial: mixed-methods results from 3-year follow-up. Charlotte Wahlich. 2.    Distributive equity in the real world: would targeting the National Health Service Health Check programme to deprived groups be more cost effective? Brendan Collins. 3.     A systematic, meta-analytic review of prospective risk and protective factors for intimate partner violence victimisation among women. Alexa Rachel Yakubovich. 4.     E-cohort study of the relationship between alcohol outlet density and alcohol-related mortality in Wales. Andrea Gartner. 5.   The effects of public health policies on health inequalities: a review of reviews. Frances Hillier-Brown.
17.00	Closing remarks and prize announcements  Richard Horton, The Lancet

 

 

Accessibility and uptake of health services

1. Taylor: Education, Health Literacy and Inequity in Access to Transplantation: Results from the ATTOM cohort study
2. Kerrison: Use of two annual self-referral reminders and a theory-based leaflet to increase the uptake of bowel scope screening among former non-participants: results from a randomised controlled trial in London
3. Vrinten: Cancer worries and uptake of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening: a population-based survey in England
4. Chrysou: Co-creation of local smoking cessation services: an innovative public health intervention in times of austerity

Development and evaluations of interventions

5. Alexander: An integrated learning scheme for community practitioners involved in the care of children and young people
6. Smith: Participatory Budgeting and health and wellbeing: a systematic scoping review of evaluations and outcomes
7. Fildes: Developing a communication toolbox for primary care practitioners to raise the issue of weight with parents of preschool children: A qualitative study
8. Martin: Exploring previous adaptations to the women’s group Participatory Learning & Action Cycle in resource-limited settings: an observational study.
9. Osborne: Evaluating the impact of cancer awareness training for community-based health workers: a cross-sectional repeated measures survey

Diet, diabetes and obesity

10. Captieux: Supported self-management for people with type 2 diabetes: A meta-review of quantitative systematic reviews
11. Jones: What are the views of overweight and obese adolescents (12-17yrs) attending lifestyle treatment interventions: a qualitative systematic review
12. Sarkar: Residential density and adiposity: findings from the UK Biobank
13. Alwan: Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes following Gestational Diabetes in a Population-based Cohort
14. Little: An ecological cross-sectional study investigating if domains of deprivation from the Index of Multiple Deprivation predict overweight and obesity amongst primary school children in England

Health and education

15. Busse: Developing a typology of mentoring programmes for young people in secondary schools in the United Kingdom: a qualitative study
16. Long: Testing the ‘zero-sum game’ hypothesis: An examination of school health policy and practice and inequalities in educational outcomes
17. Pandey: Systematic review of effectiveness of universal self-regulation based interventions to improve self-regulation, and effects on distal health and social outcomes in children and adolescents
18. Phillips: Who’s got a defibrillator? A national survey of AED provision and training at secondary schools in Wales
19. Pringle: The impact of early learning and childcare on the parents of pre-school children: results of a rapid systematic review
20. Smith: How easy is it for a lay audience to read medical journals? A survey of the readability scores of a sample of diabetes research papers

Health equity

21. Al Sallakh: Socioeconomic deprivation and inequalities in asthma care in Wales
22. Parkinson: Investigating age-period-cohort effects using Lexis diagrams and intrinsic estimator regression modelling to understanding Scotland’s ‘excess mortality’
23. Remes: Sense of coherence as a coping mechanism for women with anxiety living in deprivation: British population, cohort study
24. Tseliou: Differential effect of caregiving across age-groups: a census-based record linkage study.
25. Twaits: The association between area-based deprivation and change in body mass index over time in primary school children: a population-based cohort study.
26. O’Donnell: A systematic review of qualitative research on the factors shaping amphetamine type stimulant use over the life course

Health of older people

27. Beynon: Dementia Health Needs Assessment (HNA): A Review of Epidemiology, Services, Health Needs and Models of Good Practice
28. Blodgett: Neurodevelopmental contributors to standing balance in mid to later life: findings from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development
29. Harkness: Mastery and fear of falling in a UK sample of older people
30. Herrod: Non-pharmacological strategies of reducing blood pressure in older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis
31. Koopmans: Risks of skin cancer in older adults: analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
32. Oliver: Cohort study suggests a possible aetiological role of low oxygen tolerating bacteria in prostate cancer development and offers a potential new approach to prostate cancer prevention

Health services for marginalised populations

33. Aisyah: Hepatitis C among Vulnerable Populations: A Seroprevalence Study of Homeless, PWID and Prisoners in London
34. Collins: Distributive equity in the real world: would targeting NHS Healthchecks to deprived groups be more cost effective? A modelling study using real world data from a deprived northern city
35. Dawes: ‘A Mile in Her Shoes’: The impact of volunteer-led running groups for women affected by homelessness, a qualitative study
36. Kaddour: Initial phase exploring barriers to oral health among young carers in Surrey, England.
37. Liljas: Engaging ‘hard to reach’ groups in health promotion: the views of older people and professionals from a qualitative study in England
38. Jackson: Triangulation of two mixed methods studies to understand Gypsy, Traveller and Roma use of health services in the UK

Maternal and child health

39. Ahrendt Bjerregaard: Association between maternal diet quality and offspring diet quality assessed at age 14 years – longitudinal study in a large contemporary cohort
40. Lakshman: A theory-based behavioural intervention to reduce formula-milk intake and prevent excessive weight gain during infancy (The Baby Milk Trial): an explanatory randomised controlled trial
41. Umney: Societal behavioural norms and the media: discourse analysis of a research project aiming to change breastfeeding behaviours using financial incentives
42. Straatmann: How well can poor child health and development be predicted using data collected in early childhood in the UK? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study
43. Wood: Trends in surgery for developmental dysplasia of the hip before and after introduction of improved DDH detection pathways: a population based cohort study, Scotland 1997-2014
44. Ziauddeen: Predicting childhood overweight and obesity using maternal and early life risk factors: a systematic review

mHealth and eHealth

45. Judah: Behavioural text message reminders to improve participation in breast screening: A randomised controlled trial
46. Judah: Behavioural text message reminders to improve participation in cervical screening: A randomised controlled trial
47. Johns: A systematic review of the use of social media for the delivery of health promotion on smoking, nutrition and physical activity
48. Alwan: Development of an interactive dietary assessment tools website (Nutritools) for use in health research
49. Wu: SemEHR: Surfacing Semantic Data from Clinical Notes in Electronic Health Records for Tailored Care, Trial Recruitment and Clinical Research

Modelling and simulation

50. De Poli: The impact of interventions to prevent diabetes in England – a simulation model
51. Ahmadi-Abhari: Impact of tobacco smoking prevalence on cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular deaths in England and Wales 2017-2040: a modelling study
52. Gray: Cardiorespiratory fitness; a missing component in UK lifetime cardiovascular risk prediction models? A cross-sectional analysis.
53. Savona: Proportional responsibility vs individual responsibility for healthy eating: a complex systems analysis
54. Owen: Modelling the cost effectiveness of environmental interventions to encourage and support physical activity

Physical activity

55. Collins: Engaging with the science of physical activity: the experience of female international students at a London University.
56. Pereira: Stability and change in leisure time physical inactivity and its predictors in mid-adulthood: findings from a prospective British birth cohort study
57. Raza: Identification of Predictors of Objectively Measured Physical Activity in 12-Month-Old British Infants: A Machine Learning Driven Study
58. Smith: Prevalence of travel and dietary behaviours with health and environmental co-benefits: A cross-sectional analysis of UK Biobank
59. Warr: Discovery of 7 novel policy-modifiable characteristics associated with future objectively measured physical activity status (PA) in using the UK Biobank data.
60. Cadar: Physical activity as a distinctive feature of lifestyle behaviour clustering: Associations with dementia risk in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Primary care

61. Beynon: Screening for Undiagnosed Diabetes in the First Trimester of Pregnancy: A Summary of the Evidence.
62. Blomquist: Improving public health intelligence to inform sexual health policy and practice: The acceptability and feasibility of implementing an enhanced bio-behavioural surveillance tool in sexual health clinics
63. Dezateux: General practice consultations with obese children – a missed opportunity? Cross-sectional study using linked national child measurement and primary care data
64. Lovell: A realist review and collaborative development of ‘what works’ in the social prescribing process
65. Palladino: Evaluating the impact of a national diabetes risk assessment and screening programme in England: a quasi-experimental study
66. Kim: Patterns in chlamydia detection rate in young adults, 15-24 years in England, 2012-2015: longitudinal analysis of routine data

Public health and the policy process

67. Buckton: Opening the policy window for “sugar tax”? Media representations of sugar and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in UK newspapers: implications for public health policy
68. Gentry: How can researchers generate meaningful public health policy impact? A meta-ethnography of case studies
69. Hilton: Who says what about sugar-sweetened beverage tax? Stakeholders’ framing of evidence: a newspaper analysis.
70. McGrath: Exploring influences on public health contributions to alcohol licensing processes in local government in England: a mixed methods study
71. Pineo: Census, characteristics and taxonomy of urban health indicator tools: a systematic review
72. Spence: Local resident’s opposition to a multinational fast food company in England: a qualitative analysis

Communicable disease

73. Zhou: Mining Electronic Health Records for Identification of Predictive Factors Associated with Hospitalisation of Campylobacter Infections
74. Smith: Development of a novel application for visualising infectious disease data in hospital settings
75. Trayner: Meningococcal ACWY (MenACWY) vaccine uptake, and barriers and motivations towards vaccination in undergraduate students: a mixed-methods study.
76. Wilson: Effect of an e-STI testing and results service on STI diagnoses and STI testing uptake: a single-blind randomised controlled trial

Secondary and tertiary care

77. Haroon: Information standards for recording alcohol use in electronic health records: Findings from a national consultation
78. Kwong: Can Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) be used in emergency admissions? A cohort study exploring agreement of retrospective and contemporaneous PROMs with from hip and knee replacement patients in NHS hospitals
79. Walsh: Approaches to alcohol screening in secondary care: a review and meta-analysis
80. Song: A systematic root cause analysis into the increase in Escherichia coli bacteraemia in Wales over the last 10 years

Structural and population interventions

81. Bouttell: Synthetic Control Methodology as a tool for evaluating public health interventions – a guide to the method and case study
82. Hunter: Social network interventions for health behaviour change: A systematic review
83. Levin: Cost-benefit analysis of a Power of Attorney media campaign in Scotland
84. Ireland: Exploring the relationship between Big Food corporations and professional sports clubs: a scoping review
85. Young: Effectiveness of mass media campaigns to reduce alcohol consumption and harm: A systematic review

The Lancet invite abstract submissions for Public Health Science: A National Conference Dedicated to New Research in UK Public Health to be held in London at Mary Ward House, UK, on Nov 24, 2017.

This year we will again be awarding both oral and poster presentation prizes. To be entered, tell us if you are a pre-PhD researcher (eg, MSc student, foundation year trainee, research assistant, public health trainee, or academic clinical fellow), PhD student, or postdoctoral trainee (clinical lecturers, clinician scientist fellows, or equivalent posts) when you submit your abstract. Public Health England is also sponsoring a prize for the best piece of implementation research that will be selected from all submissions.

Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words, be written in English, and contain no references, tables, or figures. Submissions should include the following sections: background (including context and aim), methods, findings, and interpretation. Please also include a non-declamatory title (including a study descriptor—eg, randomised); names, titles, highest degrees, and affiliations of authors; postal and email addresses for the corresponding author; any funding received (if none, please state this); and a brief summary of the contributions of each author and any competing interests. Abstract guidelines are available on The Lancet‘s website. Reports of randomised trials should follow the CONSORT extension for abstracts.

Please submit your abstract as a Microsoft Word document through The Lancet’s online submission system and state in your covering letter that the submission is for the Public Health Science conference. The abstract submission deadline is June 19, 2017. After The Lancet‘s peer-review process, participants will be informed of acceptance of abstracts for oral or poster presentation by Aug 25, 2017.

You can now book your place at the conference at the HG3 booking website here – https://registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/phs17

Thanks to Gareth Richards for writing this great blog about the 2016 conference. We’re glad you enjoyed the day and hope to see you next year!

We are delighted to announce the programme for Public Health Science 2016. This year the conference is being held at the Radisson Blu Hotel Cardiff, UK on Nov 25, 2016.

Programme

09.00	Welcome and introduction to the day Richard Horton, The Lancet Rob Aldridge, University College London
09.15	Creativity and innovation in public health science Chairs: Richard Horton and Emily Tweed
	1.     Trajectory of achievement in primary school and development of mental health conditions in adolescence. Sinead Brophy. 2.     Suicide and self-harm related Internet use: a cross-sectional study investigating the prevalence and characteristics of hospital presenting self-harm patients. Prianka Padmanathan. 3.     Effects of national housing quality standards on hospital emergency admissions: a quasi-experiment using data linkage. Sarah Rodgers. 4.     What is the maternal and child mental health impact of moving into poverty and child and maternal mental health? Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Sophie Wickham. 5.     Health impacts of the M74 urban motorway extension: a natural experimental study. David Ogilvie
10.30	Tea and coffee
11.00	New methodological approaches to public health science Chairs: Martin McKee and Louise Hurst
	1.     Content analysis of tobacco industry data on the illicit tobacco trade in UK newspapers during the standardised packaging debate. Karen Evans-Reeves. 2.     Towards a new model of evidence for public health. Harry Rutter 3.     Negotiating multisectoral evidence: a qualitative study of knowledge exchange in transport and public health. Cornelia Guell. 4.     Body mass index and cardiometabolic disease in UK Biobank: a Mendelian randomization study of 119,859 UK Biobank participants. Donald Lyall. 5.     Econometric and comparative risk assessment scenario modelling of the proposed UK sugary drink tax on health. Adam Briggs.
12.30	Lunch and chaired poster viewing
14.00	Keynote Speeches: Chair: Anne Johnson 1.     Public Health research in Wales. Frank Atherton, Chief Medical Officer, Wales. 2.     Data Linkage: an essential tool for efficient observational and interventional research and service delivery. Ronan Lyons, Clinical Professor of Public Health, Swansea University Medical School
15.00	Tea, coffee and poster viewing
15.30	Implementing public health science in policy and practice Chairs: Klim McPherson and Serena Luchenski 1.     Does exposure to opioid substitution treatment at prison release reduce the risk of death? A national prospective cohort study in England. Matthew Hickman. 2.     Evaluation of the Healthy Start Voucher Scheme: a Qualitative Study of Low Income Mothers’ Perspectives. Susan Browne. 3.     Can continuity of primary care decrease emergency care use? A nested case-control study. Peter Tammes. 4.     Low alcohol consumption and pregnancy and childhood outcomes: time to change guidelines indicating apparently ‘safe’ levels of alcohol during pregnancy? A systematic review and meta-analyses. Loubaba Mamluk. 5.     Impact of a levy on sales of sugar-sweetened beverages within Jamie’s Italian restaurants: interrupted time-series analysis. Steven Cummins.
17.00	Closing remarks  Richard Horton, The Lancet

 

 

Ageing

1. Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 and hearing impairment in older adults: results from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Camille Lassale
2. Vision impairment doubles the risk of frailty over 4 years: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Ann Elizabeth Margaretha Liljas
3. Physical activity in older people: A review of systematic reviews of interventions and context, Olawale Olanrewaju
4. Lifestyle factors, cognitive reserve and cognitive function: results from a population-based cohort, the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study Wales (CFAS Wales), Yu-Tzu Wu
5. Life course adiposity and biological ageing: A cross-sectional study, Wahyu Wulaningsih
6. Dementia case-finding in acute hospitals: qualitative study of hospital clinicians’ and GPs’ perspectives, Anne-Marie Burn

Alcohol

7. Factors associated with public support for alcohol policy in England: a population-based survey, Penny Buykx
8. Alcohol in older people: systematic reviews of interventions and context, Sarah Kelly
9. Alcohol misuse and injury outcomes in young people aged 10-24: A cohort analysis using linked primary and secondary data in England, Louise Lester
10. Assessing the feasibility of using health information in alcohol licensing decisions: A case study of seven English local authorities, John Daniel Mooney
11. Do cumulative impact zones reduce alcohol availability in UK high streets? Evaluating a natural experiment introducing a new licencing policy, Triantafyllos Pliakas 

Cardiovascular

12. Evaluating the Number of Offspring and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease among Men and Women to Distinguish the Role of Shared Lifestyle Characteristics, Maria Christine Magnus
13. Explaining differences in cardiovascular disease mortality between local authorities in England: an ecological analysis, Prachi Bhatnagar
14. Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Psoriasis, Psoriatic and Rheumatoid Arthritis: A prospective study using routinely collected health data held in the SAIL Databank, Roxanne Cooksey
15. Childhood maltreatment and biomarkers for cardiometabolic disease in mid-adulthood: associations and potential explanations, Snehal Pinto Pereira
16. Is post-stent clopidogrel stopped on time? A prescribing audit in primary care, Katherine Maskell
17. Reducing US cardiovascular disease inequalities through dietary policy, Piotr Bandosz 

Child and Adolescent Health

18. Body-mass index and incidence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in UK children and young adults, Ali Abbasi
19. NAP SACC UK: a feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial to adapt a US environmental intervention in UK nurseries to increase physical activity and healthy eating in 2-4 year olds, Rowan Brockman
20. Parental influences on children’s physical self-perceptions, body composition and physical activity levels, William Thompson Bezant Eddolls
21. Exploring the case for investing in Early Years in Wales: A health economics perspective, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards
22. Methods of ascertainment of children and young people living with diabetes mellitus: a mapping exercise of the NHS diabetic eye screening programmes, Maria Ibanez Bruron 

Ethnicity and Migration

23. Migration and Health: A Policy Review to Support Inter-Sectoral Actions and Joint-Policy Interventions in Low and Middle Income Countries Across Regions, Anjali Bhaskar Borhade
24. Health needs of unaccompanied children seeking asylum – a descriptive analysis of the physical and mental health needs of unaccompanied children, Rachel Margaret Coyle
25. Body mass index adjustments to increase the validity of body fatness assessment in UK black African and South Asian children, Mohammed T Hudda
26. Exploring determinants of overweight and obesity in South Asian Adolescents in England, Gurnam Singh Johal
27. Perceived barriers to accessing mental health services amongst the black and minority ethnic (BME) communities: A qualitative study in southeast England, Anjum Memon 

Health Protection

28. Seasonal influenza vaccination in healthcare workers: exploring the influence of consultants on the uptake of vaccination by medical students and early career doctors, Rhiannon Louise Edge
29. Public attitudes toward research participation during an infectious disease pandemic: a qualitative study across four European countries, Nina Gobat
30. Estimating the burden of admissions due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in children <5 years of age in England using linked laboratory surveillance and hospital data, Rachel Melanie Reeves
31. Winter burden of hospital bed closures due to acute gastroenteritis in England, 2010/11-2015/16: a population-based observational study using routinely collected data, Frank G Sandmann
32. Barriers and facilitators to HIV testing in people age 50 and above: a systematic review, Elaney Youssef

Implementation research

33. Systematic review of public-targeted communication interventions to improve antibiotic use, Robert Tolfree
34. Inferring the intervention effect of local alcohol licensing polices on hospital admission and violent crime: a natural experiment using a novel Bayesian synthetic control method, Frank de Vocht
35. Modelling the long-term epidemiological and cost impact of a multi-component lifestyle intervention and a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in the EU: results from the EConDA project, Laura Pimpin
36. Achieving the 2025 WHO Global Health BMI Targets: Progress of 53 WHO-Europe region countries, a modelling study, Elisa Pineda
37. Improving population levels of physical activity through integration into everyday life: a pre-post analysis of the Cycling Cities and Towns (CCTs) programme, Glenn Stewart

Maternal and Child Health

38. Mam-Kind Study: A Novel Peer Support Intervention Using Motivational Interviewing for Breastfeeding Maintenance: a UK Feasibility Study, Lauren Copeland
39. Adversity and risk of poor birth and infant outcomes for young mothers: a population-based data linkage cohort study, Katie Harron
40. A systematic review of interventions that enhance health professional contact with parents and infants to improve child development and social-emotional wellbeing in the early years in high-income countries, Lisa Hurt
41. Prenatal alcohol exposure and pregnancy and childhood outcomes: a systematic review of alternative analytical approaches, Loubaba Mamluk
42. Systematic review of infant and young children complementary feeding practices in South Asian families, Logan Manikam
43. Providing the Best Medicine: The Use of Evidence to Support Breastfeeding/breast milk feeding in Neonatal Units (NNUs) in Scotland, Kate Woodman 

Mental Health (1)

44. A national cross-sectional survey of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their association with health-harming behaviours and mental well-being in the Welsh adult population, Kathryn Ashton
45. Barriers and facilitators for lowering cardiovascular disease risk in people with severe mental illnesses: Evidence from a systematic review and focus group study, Alexandra Burton
46. Meditation in Humanitarian Aid – an action research, Jivana Hunt
47. Recent trends in diagnosis and psychotropic prescribing for children and young people- a series of e-cohort studies, Ann John

Mental Health (2)

48. Cost effectiveness of a befriending intervention to improve the wellbeing and reduce loneliness of older women, Lesley Owen
49. Mental health and wellbeing trends among children and young people in the UK 2000-2014: repeated cross-sectional study. Jackie Pitchforth
50. Generalized anxiety disorder and excess cancer deaths: findings from a large, longitudinal population study, Sarah Kelly and Olawale Olanrewaju
51. Evaluation of an Asset-based Community Development project: Does it promote health and well-being?, Emily van de Venter
52. Improving mental health through the regeneration of deprived neighborhoods: A prospective controlled quasi-experimental study, James White

New Methods and Tools 

53. Reporting of narrative synthesis in systematic reviews of public health interventions: a methodological assessment, Mhairi Campbell
54. Using a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) approach to elicit patients’ preferences for hip fracture rehabilitation services as part of a feasibility study, Joanna Mary Charles
55. The UK Secure eResearch Platform for public health research: a case study, Kerina Helen Jones
56. Cost Analysis of Standard Sanger Sequencing (SSS) versus Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) in ICONIC: Infection Response through Virus Genomics, Nishma Patel
57. Vitamin D levels in relation to gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia: a Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Maria Christine Magnus 

Obesity, Diet, Physical activity and other Behavioural Interventions (1)

58. Poverty and non-communicable disease behavioural risk factors in low- and lower-middle income countries: A systematic review, Luke Allen
59. How much do people spend on physical activity in England: the first nationwide cross- sectional survey of expenditure in England, Nana Kwame Anokye
60. A Secondary Analysis of Data in the ‘Welsh Health Survey for Children’ to Identify Risk Factors Associated with Childhood Obesity in Wales, Claire Beynon
61. Examining the interplay of fast food exposure and income on diet and obesity: A cross-sectional study in UK Biobank, Thomas Burgoin
62. Sugar Sweetened Beverages Coverage in the British Media – An Analysis of Public Health Advocacy versus Pro-Industry Messaging, Simon Capewell

Obesity, Diet, Physical activity and other Behavioural Interventions (2)

63. Home cooking experiences, perceptions and practices: a qualitative study using interviews with photo-elicitation, Susanna Mills
64. A systematic review of concepts and mechanisms linking environmental change and changes in physical activity, Jenna Panter
65. Association of the Food Environment and Obesity: A Systematic Review of Geographic and Statistical Methods, Elisa Pineda
66. Determinants in early adulthood of leisure-time physical inactivity stability and change in mid-life: findings from a prospective cohort, Snehal M Pinto Pereira
67. Associations between energy drink consumption and school attendance, academic attainment, and problem behaviour: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis, Gareth Richards

Population Healthcare and Screening

68. Is the timing of the first antenatal visit associated with adverse birth outcomes? Analysis from a population-based birth cohort, Nisreen A Alwan
69. The relationship between GP Practice funding and practice achievement: a cross-sectional study, Veline L’Esperance
70. A grounded theory study of participation in cervical screening for young women: Sexual association the hidden issue, Mabel Okoeki
71. Understanding barriers to cervical screening uptake in transmen: an exploratory qualitative analysis, Joanna Semlyen
72. Cancer stigma and cancer screening attendance: a population-based survey in England, Charlotte Vrinten
73. Understanding factors influencing vaccination acceptance during pregnancy in Hackney, London, Rose Wilson

Sexual and Reproductive Health

74. Finding Sexual partners online: prevalence and associations with sexual behaviour and sexual health outcomes using a British national probability survey, Melissa Cabecinha
75. A discrete choice experiment involving 1,230 young people across England to identify attributes which might influence young people’s preferences for emerging technologies for Chlamydia testing and treatment, Sue Eaton
76. Perceptions of HPV and attitudes towards HPV vaccination amongst men who have sex with men: a qualitative analysis, Tom Nadarzynski
77. A realist evaluation of the provision of positive sexual health services for young people, Katie Shearn

Smoking

78. Models for Access to Maternal Smoking cessation Support MAMSS): results from a quasi-experiment to increase the engagement of pregnant women who smoke in NHS Stop Smoking Services, Lorna Bennett
79. The Causal Effects of Varenicline on Adverse Outcomes: an Observational Cohort Study Using Electronic Medical Records, Neil Martin Davies
80. The Costs of Disinvesting from Stop Smoking Services: an economic evaluation based on the NICE Tobacco Return on Investment model, Lesley Owen
81. The effectiveness of varenicline versus nicotine replacement therapy on long-term smoking cessation in primary care, Neil Martin Davies
82. Smoke responsibly: A qualitative study of student and staff beliefs about smoking in further education institutions, Micky Willmott

 Social Determinants of Health (1)

83. Understanding social inequalities in childhood hospital admissions: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, Melisa Campbell
84. Socioeconomic indicators and sociobehavioural mediators of high mental wellbeing despite low physical capability: Findings from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Theodore David Cosco
85. Associations between different measures of child poverty, healthcare utilisation and health outcomes: observational study of nationally representative English data, Dougal S Hargreaves
86. Does intergenerational social mobility affect general health, oral health and physical function among older adults in England?, Alejandra Letelier
87. A Small Area Estimation Model of Comorbidity for England, Karyn Morrissey

Social Determinants of Health (2)

88. Child maltreatment and living standards in adulthood: findings from a prospective birth cohort, Snehal M Pinto Pereira
89. The short-term health and social impacts of energy-efficiency investments in low-income communities: A controlled field study, Wouter Poortinga
90. Poverty and development interventions which address behavioural risk factors of non-communicable diseases in low- and lower-middle income countries: a systematic review, Jessica Pullar
91. A natural experiment evaluating the impact of the built environment on self-rated health and well-being, and other health behaviours: baseline characteristics of participants from social, affordable and market-rent accommodation, Bina Ram
92. Public Health Data Science: using the Global Burden of Disease methodology to estimate disease burden due to air pollution in England, Jurgen Carlo Schmidt
93. Effect of internal migration on inequalities in mortality in Wales: an e-cohort study, Andrea Gartner

Trials

94. The short and long-term cost-effectiveness of a pedometer based intervention in primary care: results of a within trial analysis and beyond trial modelling, Nana Kwame Anokye
95. Evaluating youth mentoring for young people at risk of exclusion from secondary school: results from a feasibility randomised control trial study, Heide Busse
96. Text-message Reminders in Colorectal Cancer Screening (TRICCS): a non-clinical randomised controlled trial, Yasemin Hirst
97. Message framing in cervical screening invitation letters: A randomised controlled trial, Sarah Huf
98. National Cancer Registration Service prostate cancer registry validation utilising data from the Cluster randomised triAl of PSA testing for Prostate cancer (CAP) study, Sam Merriel

 

You can now book your place at the conference at the HG3 booking website here – https://registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/publichealthscience16

The Lancet invite abstract submissions for Public Health Science: A National Conference Dedicated to New Research in UK Public Health to be held on Nov 25, 2016. This year the conference will be held in Cardiff.

This year we hope to build on our support for early career researchers by introducing oral and poster presentation prizes. To be entered into this competition please inform us when you submit your abstract if you are a pre-PhD (e.g. MSc student, Foundation Year trainee, Public Health trainee or Academic Clinical Fellow), PhD student, or Postdoctoral trainee (Clinical Lecturers, Clinician Scientist Fellows or equivalent posts). Additionally, Public Health England will sponsor a prize for the best piece of implementation research that will be selected from all submissions by judges at the conference.

Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words, be written in English, and contain no references, tables, or figures. Submissions should include the following sections: background (including context and aim); methods; findings; and interpretation. Please also include a non-declamatory title (including a study descriptor—eg, randomised); names, titles, highest degrees, and affiliations of authors; postal and email addresses for the corresponding author; any funding received (if none, please state this); and a brief summary of the contributions of each author and any competing interests. Guidelines are available on The Lancet’s website. Reports of randomised trials should follow the CONSORT extension for abstracts.

Please submit your abstract as a Microsoft Word document to The Lancet’s online submission system. To submit your abstract go to http://ees.elsevier.com/thelancet/ stating in your covering letter that the submission is for the Public Health Science conference. The abstract submission deadline is June 20, 2016. After The Lancet peer-review process, participants will be informed of acceptance of abstracts for oral or poster presentation by Aug 25, 2016.

We are delighted to announce the programme for Public Health Science 2015. This year the conference is being held at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK on Nov 13, 2015.

Online booking now open: Please follow this link to HG3 Conferences where you can book your place.

Draft Programme

08.30	Registration
09.00	Welcome and introduction to the day Richard Horton, The Lancet Rob Aldridge, University College London
09.15	Creativity and innovation in public health science Chairs: Richard Horton & Serena Luchenski
	A risk calculator for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in London, UK, Oliver Dukes Sleep duration and risk markers for type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study in children aged 9–10 years, Alicja Rudnicka How the local built environment affects physical activity behaviour in older adults in the UK: a cross-sectional analysis linked to two national cohorts, Richard Silverworth Trends in absolute and relative risk of acute myocardial infarction in people with type 2 diabetes in Scotland: a national retrospective cohort study, Stephanie Read Surviving cancer: pilot of a web-based self-management support programme, eHOPE, Becky Whiteman
10.30	Tea and coffee
11.00	New methodological approaches to public health science Chairs: Anne Johnson  & Louise Hurst
	Does active commuting protect against obesity in mid-life? Evidence from UK Biobank, Ellen Flint Lessons from comparing narrative synthesis and meta-analysis in a systematic review, G.J. Melendez-Torres Assessing changes in the burden of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in the context of widespread opportunistic chlamydia screening: Application of a novel Pgp3 antibody assay to a series of nationally-representative household surveys in England (1994-2012), Sarah Charlotte Woodhall Linkage of population-level administrative hospital data to evaluate maternal influences on infant and child health, Ruth Gilbert Development of an open source tool for mapping disease clusters, Catherine Smith
12.30	Lunch and chaired poster viewing
14.00	Keynote Speeches: Rockefeller Foundation / Lancet Commission on planetary health – the challenges for public health science by Prof Sir Andy Haines, LSHTM Health of the public in 2040: identifying the main health challenges the UK population will face by 2040, and the opportunities to address them by Prof Dame Anne Johnson, UCL. Chair: Simon Capewell
15.00	Tea, coffee and poster viewing
15.30	Implementing public health science in policy and practice Chairs: Klim McPherson & Bethan Davies A primary care pedometer-based walking intervention with and without practice nurse support in 45-75 year olds: PACE-UP (Pedometer And Consultation Evaluation) cluster randomised controlled trial, Tess Harris Variation in patient experience between General Practice contract types: multilevel analysis of a national cross-sectional survey, Anthony Laverty Addressing alcohol harms by removing cheap, super-strength beer and cider: a qualitative study of a local alcohol availability intervention, Elizabeth Tyner McGill Cost-effectiveness and cost of an HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) programme for high-risk men who have sex with men (MSM) in England: results of a static decision analytical model, Koh Jun Ong A mixed methods study on the prioritisation of cancer and access to cancer drugs: the Cancer Drugs Fund in England, Charlotte Chamberlain
17.00	Closing remarks
	Richard Horton, The Lancet