Draft Programme

10:30

Welcome from the Chair
Professor Maggie Rae, Head of School of Public Health and Transformation

 

10:40

'Cost of Living Crisis and Public Health: Perspective from Scotland'

Professor Linda Bauld, Professor of Public Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh

 

11:10

‘Ethnicity, deprivation, and child mortality: findings from the National Child Mortality Database’

(Highly commended abstract)

Dr David Odd, Consultant Neonatologist and Senior Lecturer, University of Cardiff

 

11:35
Tea/Coffee/Comfort break
 

11:50

Parallel Sessions (4 virtual rooms)

12:50

Lunch

 

13:20

Time to view the pre-recorded mini-oral sessions

 

14.00

Parallel Sessions (4 virtual rooms)

(followed by Comfort break)

 

14:50

Chair/Award presentation

Professor Maggie Rae, Head of School of Public Health and Transformation

 

15.00

‘Evaluating the effectiveness of an ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies’ (IAPT) service addressing the wider determinants of mental health in South West England’

(Highly commended abstract)

Dr Alice Porter, Research Associate in Public Health, University of Bristol

 

15:25

'The UK Centre for Climate and Health Security'

Professor Lea Berrang Ford, Research Chair in Climate & Health, University of Leeds and Deputy-Director, Head of the Centre for Climate & Health Security, UK Health Security Agency

 

15:55

Closing remarks  

 

 PARALLEL SESSIONS – MORNING

11:50 – 12:50

 

Room 1 AM

 

Room 2 AM

 

Room 3 AM

 

Room 4 AM

 

 

Premature mortality and infant vulnerability

Physical activity and metabolic disorders

Engaging with patients and communities

Children and Young People and wider determinants

 

Chair: Hannah Thornton

Chair: Kate Yorke

Chair: Kamal Patel

Chair: Alexandra Creavin

11.50 – 12.07

A1

Gwen Fernandes

NHS England

South West of England Mortality Profile 2022

A2

Dev Vencappa

Swindon Borough Council

Evaluating the Football Fans in Training (FFIT) weight management programme in Swindon

A3

Fran Baber and Milly Carmichael

University of Bath

Understanding food insecurity in Bath and North East Somerset: A qualitative study of community members’ and affordable food organisations’ perspectives

A4

Katrina d'Apice

University of Bristol

A Randomised Controlled Feasibility Study of Talking Together, an Early Years Language Development Intervention Delivered in a Deprived Area in England

 

Time to move virtual room (3 minutes)

12.10– 12.27

B1

Helen Duncan

OHID/University of Bristol

Increased risks of poor outcomes related to vulnerability in infants who die suddenly and unexpectedly

B2

Ruth Salway

University of Bristol

Child and parent accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time post-lockdown: a natural experiment comparison with pre-pandemic data

B3

Suzie Igoe

Cornwall Council

Service user insights and experiences of postnatal care in Cornwall: a mixed-methods study 

B4

Thomas El-Hoss

University of Exeter

Addressing Torbay’s High rates of Cared for Children: An Engaged Public Health Approach to Improving Preventative Family Support.

 

Time to move virtual room (3 minutes)

12.30 – 12.47

C1

Sylvia Stoianova

University of Bristol

Childhood deaths, deprivation, and modifiable factors: findings from the National Child Mortality Database

C2

Emily Eyles

NIHR ARC West UH Bristol NHS Trust, University of Bristol

‘Is taking more than one antipsychotic linked to risk of metabolic disorders in people with schizophrenia? A prospective cohort study using linked Clinical Practice Research Datalink data’

C3

Ben Shaw 

University of Exeter

Symptom appraisal and help-seeking in men with symptoms of possible prostate cancer: a qualitative study with an ethnically diverse sample in London

C4

Olivia Ford

South Gloucestershire Council

The negative effects of having a family member who has gone to prison on a young person’s mental wellbeing: an explorative analysis of the Online Pupil Survey 

 

Lunch (Pre-recorded mini-oral sessions can be viewed on the SharePoint site)

 

PARALLEL SESSIONS – AFTERNOON

14:00 – 14:50

 

Room 1 PM

 

Room 2 PM

 

Room 3 PM

 

Room 4 PM

 

 

Health of infants

Screening and Immunisations

Sexual Health

Understanding health of school children

 

Chair: Janani Arulrajah

Chair: Susan Cummins

Chair: Josh Howkins

Chair: Dhanya Gardner

14.00 – 14.17

D1

Hannah Edwards

University of Bristol

Results from the National PReCePT Programme (NPP): a public health intervention to reduce cerebral palsy associated with preterm birth'

D2

Lesley Lewis

Somerset County Council

Increasing uptake of the flu vaccine in Somerset County Council employees: a randomised trial to evaluate the effectiveness of using behaviour change techniques in email invitations 

D3

Maya Gobin

University of Bristol

Acceptability and feasibility of electronic vending machines for delivering HIV self-testing and STI self-sampling kits: a mixed methods study

D4

Emily Widnall

University of Bristol

Barriers and facilitators to creating and sustaining a regional School Health Research Network in an English education infrastructure to improve adolescent health and well-being: a qualitative process evaluation. 

 

Time to move virtual room (3 minutes)

14.20 – 14.37

E1

Jo Williams

Bristol City Council

First Dental Steps Intervention: feasibility study of a Health Visitor led infant oral health improvement programme in South West England

E2

Alexandra Creavin

Bristol City Council/University of Bristol

Inequalities in the uptake of bowel cancer screening across Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire since COVID-19

E3

Mark McNally & Sarah Aston

Swindon Borough Council & Torbay Council

Understanding the barriers and facilitators to accessing HIV PrEP in underserved populations in the South West 

E4

Rowan Renow-Clarke

Gloucestershire County Council

Comparison of trends in children and young people’s health and wellbeing pre and post pandemic using local school survey data 

 

Comfort Break/Time to move to main link