A joint webinar organised by the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and the School of Health & Psychological Sciences at City, University of London.
Overview
This webinar will cover the stages of development and evaluation of healthcare interventions including testing acceptability, feasibility, and outcomes in a different areas including COVID, perinatal mental health, schizophrenia and psychosis.
Registration is free and open to those working in healthcare and research as well as students and the public.
N.B. this event is scheduled to take place online and all timings mentioned refer to UK time.
Webinar chair
Dr Raheelah Ahmad
Director for Global Engagement
School of Health & Psychological Sciences at City, University of London
Bio:
Raheelah is the Director for Global Engagement for the School of Health & Psychological Sciences and leads on the Health Management and Leadership as well as the Innovation and Change teaching on the Health Management MSc.
She also contributes to the Master of Public Health Programme. Raheelah is Deputy Chair of The Surveillance and Epidemiology of Drug-resistant Infections Consortium and the Knowledge Mobilisation Lead for 3 NIHR Health Protection Research Units: Modelling and Health Economics, Respiratory Infections and Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at Imperial College London, where she is the Health Management Programme Lead.
Raheelah has a decade of NHS management experience and a recipient of the prestigious NIHR Fellowship in Knowledge Mobilisation and co-investigator on the ESRC/UKRI project to address AMR in low resource settings evaluating sustained impact of interventions across the healthcare economy. She co-leads the Implementation Course in Infection Control in collaboration with the University of Geneva Hospitals.
Speakers, titles and bios
Dr Mandy Sekhon
Research Associate
King’s College, London
Title: Theoretical framework and assessment of acceptability in healthcare interventions
Bio:
Mandy is a post-doctoral Research Associate, applying mixed methods research to assess the acceptability, fidelity and feasibility of a gait rehabilitation walking intervention delivered to patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (GREAT trial). As well as working on the GREAT trial, Mandy contributes to the education of undergraduate and postgraduate allied healthcare professional students.
Mandy completed her PhD in Health Psychology, at City, University of London. The aim of her PhD was to define acceptability in the context of healthcare interventions and to develop a Theoretical Framework of Acceptability that can be applied to assess acceptability qualitatively and quantitatively from two stakeholder perspectives healthcare professionals and patients.
Mandy's research interests include applying theory and mixed methods to design, implement and evaluate behaviour change interventions across a range of clinical conditions. Specifically, she is interested in advancing acceptability research in the context of healthcare interventions and services.
Dr Kirsten Barnicot
Lecturer
School of Health & Psychological Sciences at City, University of London
Title: A feasibility trial of a video feedback parent-infant intervention for mothers with perinatal mental health difficulties
Bio:
Kirsten is a psychologist with a special interest in the prevention and treatment of inter-generational mental health difficulties. Her work has particularly focussed on the experiences of people diagnosed with personality disorder who may be survivors of complex trauma and on parent-infant interventions in the perinatal period. She joined City in 2020, having previously held NIHR Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship positions at Queen Mary University of London and Imperial College London.
She is currently leading an NIHR-funded randomised controlled trial of the video feedback intervention for positive parenting (VIPP) for parents with enduring difficulties in managing emotions and relationships, consistent with a personality disorder.
Prior to this, her NIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship explored the interplay between personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder and evaluated outcomes and experiences of dialectical behaviour therapy and mentalisation-based psychological therapies. She has also recently collaborated on a project evaluating the impact of maternal antenatal anxiety on child development, stress responsivity and epigenetics.
Dr Jacqueline Sin
Professor
School of Health & Psychological Sciences at City, University of London
Topic: Outcomes of the e-support for families and friends of individuals affected by psychosis project (see: COPe-support)
Bio:
Jacqueline is a Mental Health Nurse and health services researcher. Her clinical and research interest is primarily in understanding the needs and experiences of individuals affected by severe mental illness and those of their families and local communities.
Jacqueline has worked in a range of clinical services.
She completed further post-graduate education in Hong Kong, Australia and the UK. She worked as the education and practice lead for psychosis in Berkshire and was awarded an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship which enabled her to undertake a PhD on ‘The ESibling Project’.
Jacqueline is passionate in integrating research evidence to improve care and through national / international collaborations. She has been a clinical expert for NICE guidelines on psychosis and schizophrenia. Jacqueline is an active Cochrane systematic review author.
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