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Professor of Health Research Methodology, University of Liverpool
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11.07.2025 20:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Professor Iain Buchan presents at the COVID-19 inquiry. On 19 May 2025, Professor Iain Buchan presented critical lessons from the Liverpool Covid-19 testing pilot at a public hearing of Module 7 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. His evidence offered insight into how future pandemics can be managed more effectively. Module 7, focusing on Test, Trace and Isolate, is examining the UK’s approach to testing, contact tracing and self-isolation from January 2020 to 28 June 2022. Professor Buchan’s evidence drew on real-world learning from the Liverpool pilot - the UK’s first city-wide asymptomatic mass testing programme launched in November 2020. Professor Buchan outlined seven key lessons for effective pandemic response, emphasising the need for clear testing goals. He highlighted the importance of equity, timely data, public health expertise, and AI tools in supporting effective decision-making. He also stressed the need to align preparedness with innovation and economic strategy and recommended regular simulation exercises across all leadership levels to ensure readiness for future health crises and ongoing NHS pressures. Further details can be found in an associated news article from the University of Liverpool. https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/05/19/liverpool-public-health-expert-presents-at-covid-19-inquiry/
Launch of the Health Data Decoded podcast. Our colleague Dr Ed Hill (Tenure Track Fellow in Health Protection Data Science) along with Dr Sam Ball (Lecturer in the Department of Health Data Science) have launched a podcast called Health Data Decoded! Health Data Decoded is a podcast series for the Civic Health Innovation Labs, discussing how we can use civic data to improve public health. The podcast features not only research/teaching staff, but also administrators or other professional services staff to help the public understand the support needed to make health research happen. Three episodes have been released so far. Episodes of Health Data Decoded are available on Spotify and YouTube. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1kbSyvIQUeLCjsSAORwlxr YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HealthDataDecoded
University of Liverpool Staff Awards 2025 shortlisting. The team for the Children Growing up in Liverpool (C-GULL) study’s public engagement programme 'Young Voices, Big Ideas' have been shortlisted for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Public Engagement’! This award is for teams or individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to societal benefit through public engagement with their University work. With team members including colleagues from PHPS, the 'Young Voices, Big Ideas' public engagement programme aims to empower a diverse group of children and young people and their families in Liverpool, and foster community ownership of the CGULL cohort study through arts-based public engagement. That has been done through the Young Voices, Big Ideas ‘Pop-Up’, workshops in primary schools and books for young children, all co-designed with the young person’s advisory group and a team of adult public advisors. The Staff Awards 2025 ceremony takes place at The Spine on Monday 16 June, where the winners and commendations will be announced.
PHPS departmental away day. On Tuesday 03 June 2025, the PHPS department had its latest away day. Held at the University of Liverpool Greenbank Conference Centre, the away day had more than 50 PHPS departmental members engage in networking and discussions on the theme of ‘Making a difference’. The agenda featured a panel session on ‘Making PHPS more inclusive’ , flash talks by postgraduate and early-career researchers, and small group activities including a session led by the Social Sciences of Population Health Interdisciplinary Collaborative (SOPHIC) discussing ‘What constitutes a public health problem?’.
📰 Find out about recent PHPS activities from these news items in our Summer 2025 departmental newsletter
🗣️ @profbuchan.bsky.social presents at the COVID-19 inquiry
🎙️ Launch of the Health Data Decoded Podcast
🙌 University of Liverpool Staff Awards 2025 shortlisting
🧳 PHPS departmental away day
University of Liverpool Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems (PHPS) away day 2025
University of Liverpool Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems (PHPS) away day 2025 Theme: “Making a difference” Agenda: 10:00 Welcome 10:05 Speed networking 10:30 Panel session: ‘Making PHPS more inclusive’ 11:30 Lightning talks (Postgraduate Researchers, PGR, and Early Career Researchers, ECR) 12:15 Lunch and chat 13:15 SOPHIC: Positioning the social at the heart of public health 14:00 Tea break 14:10 Small group activity: ‘Making a difference’ 14:50 Summary/feedback 15:00 Close
University of Liverpool Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems (PHPS) away day 2025 Lightning talk session: Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) Six talks. 5 minutes per talk. Talk one. Speaker: Liam Jarvis. Presentation title: Beliefs, Antiseizure medications and side effects: A longitudinal study with those diagnosed with epilepsy and their significant others. Talk two. Speaker: Rakun Khalaf. Presentation title: My research and me (PhD title: Measuring the effects of Green and Blue Spaces (GBS) on maternal and infant health). Talk three. Speaker: Zoe Colombet (on behalf of Kateryna Zhuk). Presentation title: Assessment of changes in dietary habits of the Ukrainian population due to the full-scale war and their impact on the prevalence of non-communicable diseases. Talk four. Speaker: Rosalyn Arnold. Presentation title: Understanding Free School Meal Access for Children in Food Insecure Households in England. Talk five. Speaker: Eleojo O. Abubakar. Presentation title: Local effects of settlement form on multimorbidity prevalence in Wales. Talk six. Speaker: Yan Ding. Presentation title: Community Household Air Pollution Prevention Program (CHAP-PP).
Opening of the ‘Making a difference’ small group session.
Today we had our 2025 away day at Greenbank Conference Centre!
💭 Theme of ‘Making a difference’ with departmental members engaged in networking & discussions
🎤 Panel session on inclusivity
⚡ Flash talks by PGRs & ECRs
👥 Small group activity discussing “What constitutes a public health problem?”
Are you a healthcare practitioner who works in ED/inpatients/outpatients caring for children aged 0-15 years who have required TUBC, SPA, or CCU testing for a suspected UTI in the last three years? Please email the FROG Study research team at frogstudy@liverpool.ac.uk to take part in a focus group
23.05.2025 19:42 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In 2024, earth's warming exceeded 1.5°C for the first time, and CO₂ levels reached their highest in 5 million years 🌎
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Designing an adaptive platform trial with parents, young people and PICU staff in a NIHR accelerator grant. Here’s how we did it and what the platform should look like: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1... @nihr.bsky.social @trakmitch.bsky.social @lyvonnetume.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
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