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Job Description Peninsula Medical School ACADEMIC CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH This three-year post is part of a broad programme to improve academic medical career pathways and is co-ordinated by the NIHR Trainees Coordinating Centre (NIHR TCC), see www.nihrtcc.nhs.uk. It is part of the South West Region’s Public Health Specialty training scheme and will provide a grounding in service Public Health and an introduction to academic Public Health. The post is open to all doctors who can meet the entry requirements as specified in the person specifications. The Fellow will spend the first year of training obtaining a Masters (or equivalent) in Public Health (MSc / MPH) and will be expected to pass Part A of the Faculty of Public Health membership exams by the end of this year. By the end of the second year of training they will submit an application for a research training fellowship leading to a higher degree (PhD/MD). By the end of Year Three they will be expected to have passed Part B of the Faculty of Public Health membership exams. The academic base will be in the Peninsula Medical School (Universities of Exeter and Plymouth) with an attachment to one of the PMS research sites and groups listed below. However, there are currently changes occurring within the Peninsula Medical School which will be confirmed with the appointed candidate upon commencement. The service base will be within a Public Health department located in a local authority setting within the Peninsula Deanery boundary. The post is split 25:75 between PMS and the local Public Health service base. The Postgraduate Dean has confirmed that this placement and/or programme has the required educational and dean's approval. The Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry (PCMD) is based in the Universities of Exeter (UofE) and Plymouth (UofP) and has research sites mainly in Exeter, Plymouth and Truro. Investment in public health research has been exceptional, and critical mass is enhanced by collaboration with internationally excellent researchers in psychology, sports and health sciences, nursing and maths and statistics at the parent universities. Peninsula has been chosen to be one of eight universities nationally contributing to the NIHR National School for Public Health Research. 2
PCMD has strengths in four key public health research areas: (1) Epidemiology and Public health needs assessment (lead Prof. David Melzer). Professors Melzer (PCMD) plus Hennessy and Asthani (U of P) all use clinical or epidemiological data to identify risk factors, measure needs, evaluate the impact of interventions ‘in the real world’, and inform policy. Recent successes include reporting on 32 RAND treatment quality measures in England (BMJ, 2008). An NIHR/MRC methodology project (£355K) will develop the Prior Event Rate Ratio (PERR) method for estimating intervention effects in observational data. (2) Developing and evaluating health behaviour change interventions (Lead Prof Charles Abraham). Peninsula hosts a large interdisciplinary group pursuing research into behaviour change intervention design and evaluation. Effective interventions developed by the group have increased weight loss in Weight Watchers programmes, increased physical activity through engagement with the local environment, increased cognitive functioning among elderly people in residential homes through enhanced social interaction, and used physical activity to promote smoking cessation and reduce depression. (3) Health promotion and protection in the natural and work environment (Lead Prof Lora Fleming). We have established the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, in Truro, Cornwall, with EU support of £12m. The centre has assembled a formidable team of toxicologists, epidemiologists, economists, microbiologists, geographers and ecologists researching ways to promote health in the occupational and natural environment, and protecting health from environmental hazards. Early successes include Healthy Workplace Cornwall, an intersectoral program led by Dame Carol Black to increase the health and wellbeing of workers and their families through increased interactions with the natural environment. (4) Synthesising Public Health Evidence (Lead Prof Ken Stein). Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG, >£7.5m funding from NIHR, NICE, DoH) is part of the NICE Technology Appraisal system and is one of only two academic Collaborating Centres supporting NICE's Public Health Guidance function. PenTAG provides particular expertise in qualitative research synthesis, usually to identify barriers and facilitators of the implementation of public health interventions. Recent successes include reviews of the harms of ecstacy (for the Home Office and Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs); screening for hepatitis C in intravenous drug users (HTA Programme); weight management schemes for the under 5’s (HTA Programme); and screening tests for child physical abuse in A&E departments. 3
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