@livuni-phps.bsky.social
Improving health and reducing inequalities through pioneering research and education. @liverpooluni.bsky.social Profile managed by @edmhill.bsky.social. 🔗: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/population-health/about/public-health-policy-and-systems/
2/ NIHR CLEAN-Air(Africa) Global Health Research Unit
🗓️ Launched in 2022 with scaled research & capacity building agenda in Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania & Uganda.
👤 Unit co-directed by PHPS colleague Prof Dan Pope
🔗 CLEAN-Air(Africa) and its activities: cleanairafrica.com
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1/ 👏 University celebrates ten years of research in Cameroon
🗓️ In July 2015, research partnership launched between University of Liverpool & Douala General Hospital to tackle burden of disease from household air pollution. #PublicHealth
🔗: Celebration of ten years of impact on 26 July 2025👇
Our Vaccinations and Immunisations Team spoke with
Radio BBC Merseyside about our immunisation catch up clinics across Merseyside 📻
The clinics aim to help protect children and young people, and prevent further spread of measles 👇🏽
youtu.be/rm7X1jTpops
Head down to Ness Botanic Gardens next month for Discover Nature - a series of talks exploring the amazing natural world around us! 🌼 Tickets are FREE - check out all the dates and details here tinyurl.com/4zd3w87y
@livunihls.bsky.social @livuninews.bsky.social
🎓 It has been graduation week at @liverpooluni.bsky.social
🎉 Congratulations to our #ClassOf2025!
2/ Info on Rukun's research
🌳🌊👶 Studies effects of green & blue space exposure on maternal & neonatal health
🔗 research profile: sphr.nihr.ac.uk/trainee/ruku...
🔗 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rukun-kha...
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Rukun Khalaf with the runner's up certificate for the University of Liverpool’s Three Minute Thesis Competition.
1/ 🏆 Success at 2025 University of Liverpool ‘Three Minute Thesis’ competition
👏 Congrats to our PhD student Rukun Khalaf. First place at Faculty Heat stage (Health and Life Sciences) & Runner Up in overall final!
🔗: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/30/t...
Step into the weird and wonderful at #BSF25 from 10 to 14 September 🌟
Some questions we’re asking:
🌳 Do trees have social lives?
🧬 Can we trust ancestry tests?
🍟 Why is junk food in every game?
🏳️🌈 Where’s the autistic joy in research?
Book your free tickets now: britishsciencefestival.org
About you Appointment at Grade 8 will require the desirable criteria to be met, in addition to the essential. Experience Essential 1. Proven experience of successfully manipulating large data sets. 2. Demonstrable experience in the field of informatics and/or data science. 3. Research software development experience. 4. Experience of developing and implementing documentation or reports that are accessible to the team. 5. Experience of writing technical reports, guides and academic publications for other users and the wider scientific community. 6. Experience in web programming, e.g. data visualisation dashboards. Desirable 1. Experience in data handling within the health, medical and/or bioinformatics domain. 2. Proven ability to lead and mentor others, managing performance, monitoring progress and driving development. 3. Research experience in an academic setting 4. Experience in DevOps e.g. API development and integration, service integration, infrastructure development. 5. Experience within a health research setting.
Education, qualifications and training Essential 1. Educated to a degree level in a relevant discipline e.g. computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent experience. Desirable 1. PhD in a subject area allied to data science e.g. computer science, engineering, mathematics or a related discipline and/or relevant post graduate research or industrial experience, as outlined below.
Skills, general and specialist knowledge Essential 1. Knowledge of data curation best practice. 2. Ability to write software programs, for example, to extract data from databases and to clean data. 3. Proficiency in SQL, e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL. 4. Knowledge and experience of data quality measures including analysis, cleaning and reporting. 5. Knowledge of software development best practices, e.g., version control, reproducible examples, analytical pipelines. 6. Excellent problem-solving skills. 7. Knowledge of Team Science leadership approaches and practices. Desirable 1. Understanding of the relevant legislation covering patient protection; understanding of clinical information governance (e.g. DSPT); understanding of good information security (e.g. ISO27001). 2. In-depth knowledge of one or more statistical/data manipulation tool/environment such as R, Python. 3. Proficiency in SQL, e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL for routine health records, and Geographic Information Systems data processing. 4. Knowledge and experience of metadata management including inferring embedded metadata from data files produced by statistical packages and familiarity with data documentation standards. 5. Knowledge or experience of longitudinal studies. 6. Knowledge of the FAIR data principles. 7. Experience of leading using a Team Science approach.
Personal attributes Essential 1. Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Including a proven ability to develop and maintain working relationships and actively collaborate with other technical and non-technical staff, teams and groups. To engender confidence from senior colleagues. 2. Self-motivated; able to work both independently and in a team; able to manage time effectively and deliver within a defined timeframe. 3. Proven ability to manage multiple competing projects simultaneously. 4. Proven ability to deliver to deadlines and within resources. 5. Willingness to travel to conferences or meetings with collaborators outside of Liverpool (and sometimes outside of UK) as necessary. E.g. travel to Bradford/Belfast/Edinburgh/London for quarterly meetings. 6. Experience of effective liaison with external partners including and contributing to professional and academic networks. Desirable 1. Ability to translate a strategic overview or research plan into operational work plans.
3/ Job role responsibilities
📋 Include designing and managing a data service to handle diverse datasets (e.g., Electronic Health Records, geospatial data) and ensuring data governance, compliance and disclosure control.
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2/ 🌳 🌊 The GroundsWell Consortium (www.groundswelluk.org) explores how urban green and blue spaces can reduce health inequalities.
📍 Location: University of Liverpool, UK. 🇬🇧
🗓️ Appointment term: Full time, fixed-term, available until Sep 2026
👥 Project contact: Sarah Rogers
1/ 🚨 #JobOffer Data Manager to support GroundsWell Consortium (@groundswellcon.bsky.social) & contribute to impactful research on urban health!
⏳ Application deadline: 23:30 BST, 18 Jul 2025
🔗 Link to role and how to apply: my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...
#AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs #PublicHealth
❓ Interested in learning more about the process of producing a podcast at @liverpooluni.bsky.social? #SciComm
🛠️ Now available online is our contribution to the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Public Engagement Group toolkit: "Making a podcast"
🔗: www.liverpool.ac.uk/health-and-l...
A diverse group of 15 people smiling in a hall with ornate architecture. They're standing in front of banners and a digital screen displaying information.
A group of five people, three seated and two standing, pose at a table with documents. Behind them, banners and a screen display health-related content. The setting is formal and professional.
Last night, we launched the Liverpool City Region Data & AI Innovation Charter at VG&M Liverpool.
Read the full report and charter here: civicdatacooperative.com/residents-as...
Thanks to all residents who helped shape it — your voices matter!
#DataForGood #LiverpoolCityRegion
📝 Read a new blog post by @edmhill.bsky.social & Sam Ball about creating and co-hosting the Health Data Decoded podcast.
🎧 A podcast series for @livunichil.bsky.social, Health Data Decoded shares with the public both scientific research & career experiences.
🔗: www.liverpool.ac.uk/health-and-l...
1/ 🎧 New 'Health Data Decoded' episode! 🎧 #SciComm #DataScience #PublicHealth
❓ What is Data into Action (DiA)? What are the responsibilities of a Programme Director?
👥 Andrea Astbury, DiA Programme Director, helps answer these questions!
📹 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=185j...
🔗 Spotify👇
The Civic Health Innovation Labs (CHIL) recently hosted a 3-day global event in Liverpool highlighting the principles and frameworks for responsible data governance and new developments in the sphere of digital commons ▶️ bit.ly/43PrWOi
@civicdatacoop.bsky.social
@livunichil.bsky.social
It's official. We've moved up. Top 150 global university. QS World University Rankings
Did you see our exciting news earlier? 👀
We’ve climbed to 147th in the QS World University Rankings 2026 — and we’re officially in the Top 150 globally! A huge moment for our Liverpool community💙
Read more here ⬇️
news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/19/u...
PHPS newsletter item on our recent new starter, Saddaf Naaz Akhtar. Description from Saddaf: "Hello there!! I joined PHPS in late April 2025 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate contributing to the Telehealth and PROPEL projects. As part of the Telehealth project, I am examining whether the use of telehealth services reduces unplanned healthcare utilisation, and how these effects vary across sociodemographic groups and service delivery types. This research employs a synthetic controlled, retrospective longitudinal analysis using linked routine data from the Community Services Data Set (CM-SDE). With a background in Statistics and Demography, I earned my PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), completed a visiting research term at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), followed by two enriching years as a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. My work is driven by a deep passion for using data to improve lives. I am particularly interested in the intersections of social demography, inclusive and healthy ageing, social epidemiology, and public health policy, with a strong emphasis on addressing gender, ethnic, and socio-economic disparities. I am especially enthusiastic about applying quantitative methods to ageing research and contributing to more equitable health and social care systems."
📣 Recent PHPS new starters 'in focus': Saddaf Naaz Akhtar
🔗: www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/sadda...
🔎 Research interests: Intersections of social demography, healthy ageing, social epidemiology & public health policy.
👥 Postdoctoral Research Associate contributing to Telehealth and PROPEL projects.
PHPS newsletter item on our recent new starter, Joshua Edefo. Description from Joshua: "I joined the department of PHPS as a Research Fellow in May 2025. My research interests span mental health, health economics, epidemiology and econometric modelling within the healthcare system. My main activity will be to contribute to the modelling of healthcare demand in the UK, a project funded by the Health Foundation."
📣 Recent PHPS new starters 'in focus': Joshua Edefo
🔗: orcid.org/0000-0002-62...
🔎 Research interests: Span mental health, health economics, epidemiology & econometric modelling within the healthcare system.
💻 Research Fellow contributing to the modelling of healthcare demand in the UK.
🏆 Liverpool Staff Awards 2025
👏 Congrats to Children Growing Up in Liverpool 'Young Voices, Big Ideas' project team - 'Outstanding Contribution to Public Engagement' Team Winner!
🧒 Engaged school groups with arts-based methods & Lego Serious Play to get children's thoughts on future of Liverpool.
PHPS newsletter item on our recent new starter, Alessandro Procopio. Description from Alessandro: "Hello there! I joined PHPS as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) in Public Health Data Science in April 2025 to work on the CHESS project. I earned my PhD from the University of Luxembourg and spent a visiting research period at Purdue University. Subsequently, I spent two years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stockholm University. My research centres on investigating the social determinants of health and evaluating the impact of social policies on individuals' health. I am particularly passionate about advancing our understanding through cutting-edge statistical techniques. Specifically, my expertise encompasses the application of innovative Bayesian methods, advanced survival analysis, time-series analysis, machine-learning techniques, and causal inference."
📣 Recent PHPS new starters 'in focus': Alessandro Procopio
🔗 LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/alessandr...
🔎 Research interests: Investigating social determinants of health & evaluating social policies impact on individuals' health
👥 PDRA on CHESS project (Civic Health Equity: from Silos to Systems)
We’re celebrating a global rise! 🎓
The University of Liverpool is now ranked 147th in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2026 — officially in the Top 150!
#TeamLivUni💙
Read more ⬇️
news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/19/u...
PHPS newsletter item on our recent new starter, Dorcas Magai. Description from Dorcas: "Hello! I am a Developmental Psychologist by training. I joined the department in March 2025 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre (M-RIC) project, focussing on children’s and young people’s mental health. I have a keen interest in understanding the development of psychopathology in children and adolescents, with a focus on identifying biopsychosocial risk factors and developing innovative strategies to improve outcomes."
📣 Recent PHPS new starters 'in focus': Dorcas Magai
🔗 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dorcas-ma...
🔎 Research interests: Understanding development of mental disorders in children & adolescents
🧠 Postdoc Research Associate on Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre (M-RIC) project: mric.uk
PHPS newsletter item on our recent new starter, Eleojo Abubakar. Description from Eleojo: "I am a health geographer and data scientist concerned with determinants of and inequalities in population health. I am adept at analysing administrative, survey and routine clinical data using various quantitative data analytics, including geocomputation. In March 2025, I joined PHPS as a research associate, where I now support a variety of projects including (1) the health and educational outcomes of victims of child neglect and (2) the Health Determinants Research Collaborative (HDRC). Prior to this, I have held two postdoc positions and one industry position in the UK. The last was a research fellow in social data science at the University of Edinburgh, on the project ‘Artificial Intelligence and Multimorbidity: Clustering in Individuals, Space and Clinical Contexts (AIM-CISC)’."
📣 Recent PHPS new starters 'in focus': Eleojo Abubakar
🔗: www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/eleoj...
🔎 Research interests: Health geographer & data scientist concerned with determinants & inequalities in population health
💻 Research associate supporting projects including: www.nihr.ac.uk/about-us/wha...
Full talk description: The Heseltine Institute have been working with Citizens UK who are a national charity, using community organising for social change on the issues that matter to communities on the development of their Liverpool Chapter. Citizens UK work is underpinned by the principle that ‘everyday people have power’ and by bringing people together across their differences, common ground may be found and change achieved. Over the last 30 years, this approach has had a range of local, regional and national impacts, including securing over £2 billion for low paid workers through the Real Living Wage and an amnesty of ‘legacy cases’ for 160 000 asylum applicants. Citizens UK is organised through a series of local chapters, each bringing together local people and organisations to build a better and fairer society. In November 2024 Citizens UK launched a Liverpool Citizens chapter. To date, over 18 local organisations have joined in membership, including faith institutions, universities, schools, NHS organisations, community groups and housing associations. The aim now is to continue to build the chapter through nurturing relationships with local organisations and listening to the issues that matter to them, along with engaging local decision-makers to bring about change. Issues that have been raised through local listening so far, include the transportation, temporary accommodation/housing, mental health and access to dental care. The presentation today aims to provide colleagues within the university with an overview of how community organising of this type works in practice and potentially identifies opportunities for colleagues to engage with the chapter on shared interests.
Belinda Tyrrell bio: Belinda’s areas of research interest include inclusive growth and public service innovation, her research agenda is focused on improving outcomes for communities both within the Liverpool City Region and beyond. Growing up in a housing cooperative underscored the importance of placing the community at the heart of the decision-making process and she is keen to capture lived experiences of induvial and communities in her work. She was the Co-Investigator on the interim evaluation of Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s (LCRCA) Households into Work Programme(HiW). A collaboration between the LCRCA, six Local Authorities and Department for Work and Pensions, Households into Work was a significant labour activation programme for the city region, designed to address the systemic issues associated with long-term and entrenched worklessness that have resulted in generations of the same household being unable to enter the labour market or sustain work.
🛟 Today's PHPS forum was given by Belinda Tyrrell
📝 On development of the Liverpool Citizens chapter in partnership with @citizensuk.org & @livuniheseltine.bsky.social
🔦 Spotlight on community organisation driving social change on locally identified issues
🔗: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
PHPS newsletter item on our recent new starter, Yan Ding. Description from Yan: "Hi! I joined PHPS in March 2025 as a Research Fellow working in the Clean Air (Africa) Unit. I am an applied social scientist in global health research, a mixed methods researcher. I am interested in health systems strengthening and implementation science in low and middle-income countries, with experience in community-based intervention development and evaluation, research capacity strengthening and fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration in consortia. My implementation research experience has enabled me to live and work in Asia, Europe and Africa. I enjoy running and wandering in nature in my spare time."
📣 Recent PHPS new starters 'in focus': Yan Ding
🔎 Research interests: Health systems strengthening & implementation science in low & middle-income countries
💨 Research Fellow in CLEAN-Air(Africa) Unit
🔗 Yan's webpage: www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/yan-d...
🔗 CLEAN-Air(Africa): cleanairafrica.com
PHPS newsletter item on our recent new starter, Manzoor Malik. Description from Manzoor: "I joined PHPS in May 2025 and am currently working on Work Package 2 of the CHESS Project, which involves conducting the economic evaluation of various household socio-economic support interventions across the Liverpool City Region (LCR). I hold a PhD in Applied Economics, with a focus on health economics and global public health. My research centres on the economic evaluation of interventions related to mental wellbeing, household socio-economic support, and planetary health, with an emphasis on quantitative methods."
📣 Recent PHPS new starters 'in focus': Manzoor Malik
🔎 Research interests: Economic evaluation of
interventions
👥 Joined CHESS (Civic Health Equity: from Silos to Systems) project
💻 Evaluating health impact of social & economic support programmes for @lpoolcityregion.bsky.social households
2/ 🔎 Research interests include behaviour change, mental wellbeing, public engagement & co-production
📋 Has previously worked at @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social public health department designing & delivering behaviour change interventions
🔗 Joy's LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/joy-wyche...
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PHPS newsletter item on our recent new starter, Joy Wyche. Description from Joy: Hi, I joined PHPS in March 2025 as a Research Assistant to work on the NIHR funded project assessing the feasibility of randomising children and young people to invasive and non-invasive sampling techniques for suspected urinary tract infections (FROG Study). I am a predominately qualitative researcher, and my main areas of interest include psychology and behaviour change, mental health and wellbeing, public engagement and co-production, communication and evaluation techniques. I have worked for over 13 years in research across Public Health related projects and organisations, including a 7-year position in Liverpool City Council’s public health department designing and delivering behaviour change interventions.
1/ Our recent departmental newsletter featured 7️⃣ new starters! 🎉 Will intro each this week. #PublicHealth
👤 First is Joy Wyche (joined us in Mar 2025)
🧪 Research Assistant on project assessing feasibility of randomising young people to invasive & non-invasive sampling techniques for suspected UTIs
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
