Public Health
Members
Staff
Andrew Hall (Group Co-ordinator)
Carol Williams
Summary
The principal research interests of the Public Health Research Group are in the field of the role of nutrition in the health of communities and populations and on the diagnosis, epidemiology and control of infectious diseases. Specific interests include: public perceptions of risk; engaging consumers in food policy; food labels; participatory approaches to health promotion; breast- and complementary feeding; assessing children’s growth and nutritional status by anthropometry; the effects of parasitic infections on children’s growth; the quantitative evaluation of health and nutrition programmes in developing countries; and the diagnosis and pathogenesis of malaria, anthrax, intestinal nematode worms and other neglected tropical diseases. Members of the Group have worked in more than 40 countries.
Recent Publications
Complete lists of publications are available on each staff members site.
Hall, A., Horton, S. and de Silva, N. (2009). The costs and cost-effectiveness of mass treatment for intestinal nematode worm infections using different treatment thresholds. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 3 (3): e402
Draper, A. and Tuffrey, V. (2008) Nutritional deficiencies In: Millstone, E. and Lang, T., (eds.) The atlas of food: who eats what, where and why. 2nd edition. Earthscan, London, UK, pp. 26-27.
Draper, A. and Tuffrey, V. (2008) Changing diets. In: Millstone, E. and Lang, T., (eds.) The atlas of food: who eats what, where and why. 2nd edition. Earthscan, London, UK, pp. 82-83.
Hall, A., Tamiru, K., Tsegaye, D., Tedbabe, D. and Lee, S. (2008). A national survey of the health and nutrition of schoolchildren in Ethiopia. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 13: 1518-1526.
Hall, A., Hewitt, G., Tuffrey, V. & de Silva, N. (2008). A review and meta-analysis of the impact of intestinal worms on child growth and nutrition. Maternal and Child Nutrition 5: 118 236.
Hall, A. Hahn, T.T.M, Farley, K., Quynh, T. P.N. & Valdivia, F. (2007). An evaluation of the impact of a school nutrition programme in Viet Nam. Public Health Nutrition 10: 819 826.
Hall, A. (2007). Micronutrient supplements for children after deworming. Lancet Infectious Diseases 7: 297 302.
Hewitt, G., Draper, A, Ismail, S., Patterson, S. (2007) Improving food provision in a Guyanese home for the elderly: a participatory approach. Public Health Nutrition, 10 (6), 552-558.
Alderman, H., Konde-Lule, J., Sebuliba, I., Bundy, D. & Hall, A. (2006). Effect on weight gain of routinely giving albendazole to preschool children during Child Health Days in Uganda: a cluster randomized controlled trial. British Medical Journal 333: 122 124
Draper, A., Green, J., Dowler, E., Fele, G., Hagenhoff, V., Rusanen, M, and Rusanen, T. (2006) Risk and trust: determinants of public perceptions. In: Dora, C. (ed.) Health, hazards and public debates: lessons for risk communication from the BSE/CJD saga. Copenhagen, Denmark: WHO Regional Office for Europe, pp. 62-83.
Current Grants
Liza Draper
Part of a consortium led by UEL awarded 740,092 to conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial of community level interventions to address social and structural determinants of physical, activity, diet and mental wellbeing from the Wellcome Trust. Of this, Prof Angela Clow in SSHL and Draper got 180,604 to conduct a longitudinal qualitative study nested within the wider CRCT to illuminate causal pathways. This is a 4y project that started in February 2008.
From April 2009 - April 2011 part of a consortium led by Prof Richard Watt, Dept of Epidemiology, UCL and funded by the FSA to develop and conduct a trial of a family-centred intervention delivered in Children's Centres and the home environment. This will be conducted in 2 sites (London and Cornwall).
Part of a successful bid to the FSA to conduct a systematic review of the effect of climate change on food. This is as part of a consortium led by the Environmental Sciences group at UEA. Awarded, but not finalized.
Andrew Hall
Principal investigator in a randomised cluster trial of the impact of multiple micronutrient supplements on the growth and educational achievements of schoolchildren in rural Bangladesh with Save the Children, USA and the Matthew Jukes of the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.
