David Evans' Outputs (145)

‘How old are you, boy?’ An autobiographical history of working as a sexual health adviser in 1980s Britain (2025)
Journal Article

Summary This is an autobiographical history of working as a sexual health adviser in the mid-1980s, a time of significant change in UK sexual health services. There are very few first-hand accounts of health advising in the literature. Autobiography... Read More about ‘How old are you, boy?’ An autobiographical history of working as a sexual health adviser in 1980s Britain.

Public involvement in UK health and care research 1995–2020: Reflections from a witness seminar (2024)
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Background
Public involvement is important to the relevance and impact of health and care research, as well as supporting the democratisation of research. In 2020, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) reorganized and eliminated INVOLVE,... Read More about Public involvement in UK health and care research 1995–2020: Reflections from a witness seminar.

‘Initially this work was done by doctors, often ineffectively …’: the history of sexual health advising in twentieth-century England (2024)
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Much has been written about the history of policy and practice on venereal diseases/sexually transmitted infections in twentieth-century England, but one key group of actors has been overlooked: sexual health advisers and their predecessors. From the... Read More about ‘Initially this work was done by doctors, often ineffectively …’: the history of sexual health advising in twentieth-century England.

Employer attitudes policies and practice towards public health practitioner registration - Final report (2021)
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Background
Government policy across the four nations of the UK emphasises the importance of developing public health workforce capacity to meet the challenges of the 21st century – non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, and co... Read More about Employer attitudes policies and practice towards public health practitioner registration - Final report.

How do you develop systems leadership in public health? Insights from a scoping study (2021)
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Objectives: Systems leadership is widely acknowledged to be needed to address the many ‘wicked issues’ challenging public health systems. However, there is a lack of evidence on how to develop public health professionals into effective systems leader... Read More about How do you develop systems leadership in public health? Insights from a scoping study.

Engaging NHS systems leaders in whole systems approaches to physical activity (2020)
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Systems leadership in practice: Thematic insights from three public health case studies (2020)
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‘Systems leadership’ has emerged as a key concept in global public health alongside such related concepts as ‘systems thinking’ and ‘whole systems approaches.’ It is an approach that is well suited to issues that require collective actio... Read More about Systems leadership in practice: Thematic insights from three public health case studies.

Attitudes and approaches to patient and public involvement across Europe: A systematic review (2020)
Journal Article

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is making great strides in promoting patient and public involvement (PPI) in health research across Europe, supporting patient organisations to be involved in the projects that it funds. Despite this, the lit... Read More about Attitudes and approaches to patient and public involvement across Europe: A systematic review.

Evaluation of the UK Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework (PHSKF): Implications for international competency frameworks (2020)
Journal Article

Background: The value of competency frameworks for developing the public health workforce is widely acknowledged internationally. However, there is a lack of formal evaluations of such frameworks. In the UK, the Public Health Skills and Knowledge Fra... Read More about Evaluation of the UK Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework (PHSKF): Implications for international competency frameworks.

Developing a typology of the roles public contributors undertake to establish legitimacy: A longitudinal case study of patient and public involvement in a health network (2020)
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Objective To identify how public contributors established their legitimacy in the functioning of a patient and public involvement programme at a health network. Design A longitudinal case study with three embedded units (projects) involving public co... Read More about Developing a typology of the roles public contributors undertake to establish legitimacy: A longitudinal case study of patient and public involvement in a health network.

What price public health? Funding the local public health system in England post-2013 (2020)
Journal Article

In April 2013 the local public health function in England was returned from the National Health Service (NHS) to local government, reversing the transfer to the NHS made in 1974 with the abolition of the medical officer of health. Although many in th... Read More about What price public health? Funding the local public health system in England post-2013.

Developing systems leadership in public health: A scoping report (2019)
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This document reports the outcomes of a scoping project commissioned by Public Health England (PHE) in order to outline possibilities for developing the systems leadership capacity of public health registrars and newly appointed consultants. It has b... Read More about Developing systems leadership in public health: A scoping report.

How important is public health practitioner registration to UK public health employers? (2019)
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Objectives: The objective of this study was to understand the extent to which public health practitioner registration is encouraged by UK employers through recruitment, i.e. by including registration as an essential or desirable criterion in job desc... Read More about How important is public health practitioner registration to UK public health employers?.

Challenges and opportunities for involving patients and the public in acute antimicrobial medicine development research: An interview study (2019)
Journal Article

Objectives: To explore what approaches to patient and public involvement (PPI) in antimicrobial medicines development are currently being utilised, what are the impacts of PPI on antimicrobial medicines development and what are the barriers to its im... Read More about Challenges and opportunities for involving patients and the public in acute antimicrobial medicine development research: An interview study.

Exploring the multidisciplinary extent of public health career structures in 12 countries: an exploratory mapping (2018)
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Background: While much is known about multidisciplinary public health (MDPH) professional practice in the UK which developed particularly in the 1990s, little is known about it in other settings especially low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Thi... Read More about Exploring the multidisciplinary extent of public health career structures in 12 countries: an exploratory mapping.

Impact of patient and public involvement on enrolment and retention in clinical trials: Systematic review and meta-analysis (2018)
Journal Article

© Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to. Objective To investigate the impact of patient and public involvement (PPI) on rates of enrolment and retention in clinic... Read More about Impact of patient and public involvement on enrolment and retention in clinical trials: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Challenges and opportunities in documenting the recent history of public health: The health of Bristol after 1948 (2018)
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How do you find the sources to write the history of the health of a city, particularly for the late twentieth century and into the digital age? This article explores this challenge in the case of the city of Bristol in the United Kingdom during the p... Read More about Challenges and opportunities in documenting the recent history of public health: The health of Bristol after 1948.

Synthesising conceptual frameworks for patient and public involvement in research - A critical appraisal of a meta-narrative review (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Author(s). Background: A number of conceptual frameworks for patient and public involvement (PPI) in research have been published in recent years. Although some are based on empirical research and/or existing theory, in many cases the basi... Read More about Synthesising conceptual frameworks for patient and public involvement in research - A critical appraisal of a meta-narrative review.

Patient and public involvement toolkit for antimicrobial medicines development research (2018)
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PPI is a rapidly growing and important global movement. PPI specifically in antimicrobial medicines development research, however, is new and unfamiliar. There is currently a lack of literature and clear practical guidance focusing on PPI in this are... Read More about Patient and public involvement toolkit for antimicrobial medicines development research.

Practical guide: Patient and public involvement in antimicrobial medicines development research (2018)
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Patient and public involvement (PPI) in antimicrobial medicines development research is new and unfamiliar. There are few established patient support groups or voluntary organisations in the field of infection sciences given the short-term nature of... Read More about Practical guide: Patient and public involvement in antimicrobial medicines development research.