SOUTH WEST PUBLIC HEALTH
SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
2018
Tuesday 13th March 2018
5th Floor, Mercure Bristol Holland House Hotel, Bristol
Dr Georgina MacArthur
NIHR postdoctoral research fellow,
University of Bristol
Georgie MacArthur is a Specialty Registrar in Public Health, currently working out-of-programme at the University of Bristol on research relating to risk behaviour in young people. Georgie completed a PhD in viral immunology at the University of Bristol, then worked as a senior policy officer at the Academy of Medical Sciences focusing on public and global health, before joining the South West Public Health Training Scheme. Georgie started a Lecturer/Academic Public Health Training Fellow position which combined research and training in 2011 and was subsequently awarded an NIHR postdoctoral fellowship. Her primary programme of research is focused around characterising alcohol use in young people and development of a novel digital school-based intervention to prevent excessive alcohol use and related harms during adolescence.
Dr Jenny Lloyd
Senior Research Fellow in Health Complexity and Child Health
University of Exeter
Dr Jenny Lloyd is a Senior Research Fellow in Health Complexity and Child Health in the Institute for Health Research at the University of Exeter. She has a background in exercise and health psychology, with a research focus on the development and evaluation of complex behavioural interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of children and their families; ensuring that stakeholders are actively involved in both trial and intervention design from the outset. She is particularly interested in the science of complex adaptive systems and how best to develop programmes that consider the complexity of social systems as well as how best to capture the way in which interventions change relationships, displace existing activities and redistribute and transform resources. Much of her research is located in schools, working with teachers and head teachers to understand how best to improve the physical and social environment of the school to positively impact the health and wellbeing of teachers and children.
Over the last few years, Jenny has led the development and evaluation of the Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP), a school-based obesity prevention intervention which has now been fully evaluated in 32 Devon primary schools, involving 1300 children and their families. Results from the trial of effectiveness have recently been published in the Lancet; Child and Adolescent Health.
Dr Kate Walters
Reader in Primary Care and Epidemiology
Director of the Centre for Ageing Population Studies
University College London
Dr Kate Walters is Director of the Centre for Ageing Population Studies (CAPS) in the Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University College London (UCL). She oversees a programme of research focussing on the health and well-being for older people in primary care and community settings. CAPS specialises in the development and testing of complex interventions to improve care for older people in primary care and the community, including health promotion with frail older people. She is a member of the NIHR School for Public Health Research and also works as a GP in North London.
Dr Liam Mahedy
Senior Research Associate
University of Bristol
Liam Mahedy BA PhD is a Senior Research Associate in Epidemiology and Medical Statistics in Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol. His current research focuses on causes and consequences of alcohol use in young adults. Liam completed a PhD in Psychology from the University of Ulster where he examined the role of parental bonding and attachment in mental health difficulties. Liam has also held post-doctoral roles in Cardiff University (examining psycho-social resilience in children of mothers with recurrent depression) and University of Bristol (examining risk factors for depression in adolescents).