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Public Health Training at Imperial College . Christopher Millett Senior Lecturer / Educational Supervisor School of Public Health. Imperial College-Academic Health Science Centre-Faculty of Medicine . School of Public Health (Elio Riboli). Epidemiology & Biostatistics (Paul Elliott)
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Public Health Training at Imperial College Christopher MillettSenior Lecturer / Educational Supervisor School of Public Health
Imperial College-Academic Health Science Centre-Faculty of Medicine School of Public Health (Elio Riboli) Epidemiology & Biostatistics (Paul Elliott) Cancer epi CVD epi Genetic Team. Biostatistics Occupational & environmental epi • Infectious Disease • Epidemiology • (Neil Ferguson) • Molecular Epi. • Malaria • Evolutionary Biol. • HIV-STDs • Epid- Modelling • NTD Genomics of Common Diseases (Philippe Froguel) Diabetes Obesity Cancer CVD Neurodegenerative D • Primary Care & Public Health • (Azeem Majeed) • - Public Health • Health System • Evaluation • - Health Services Research • - Health Improvement Clinical Trial Unit (Deborah Ashby, deputy) Phase 1, 2 and 3 trials. Population trials Post marketing follow-up MRC Centre Environment & Health P. Elliott • MRC CentreOutbreak Infectious D. • N. Ferguson Teaching: MPH, MSc in Epidemiology (Biotatistics, Environment & Health, Infectious D), MSc Metabolic Med, MSc in Global Health (2012), MBBS, BSc in Global Health, Clinical Programme in Interventional Public Health-NHS (Director: Josip Car; Director of Research: Elio Riboli)
Department of Primary Care & Public Health • Health Services Research Unit • Dr Foster unit • Global E health unit • - Child health unit • WHO Collaborating Centre
Health Services Research Unit • Research areas • Quality of chronic disease management in primary care • Impact of NHS Reforms on health care quality • Hospital performance metrics, CQUINS, PROMs • Evaluation of NW London Integrated Care Pilot • Evaluation of NHS Health Checks programme
Applied public health research (non health system) • - Tobacco control • - Active travel • - Salt reduction
Methods • Quantitative • Cross-sectional, pre-post, time trends analysis • Routine data: • 1. Health service data (General Practice Research Database, Hospital Episode Statistics) • 2. Health survey data (Health Survey for England) • 3. Non-health data (National Travel Survey)
Projects undertaken by public health trainees • Felix Greaves: role of patient online ratings on healthcare quality improvement • Fiona Hamilton: impact of financial incentives on smoking cessation • Eszter Vamos: impact of QOF on diabetes control by practice size • Matthew Harris: evaluation of Family Health Programme in Brasil • Dan Gibbons: impact of increasing legal age of purchase on smoking rates • Sophie Coronini-Cronberg: impact of free bus pass on physical activity levels
Ratings compared to patient experience surveys There is a moderate, highly significant association between ratings online and large surveys of patient experience Greaves et al. BMJ Quality and Safety, 2012
Comparing cleanliness ratings with infection rates There is a moderate, significant association between ratings of cleanliness online and infection rates Greaves et al, 2012 Arch Int Med
Teaching opportunities • Undergraduate medical course • MPH / MSc • Academic F2 supervision • Short courses
Contact • c.millett@imperial.ac.uk