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How do you develop systems leadership in public health? Insights from a scoping study (2021)
Journal Article
Evans, D., Bolden, R., Jarvis, C., Mann, R., Patterson, M., & Thompson, E. (2021). How do you develop systems leadership in public health? Insights from a scoping study. Public Health, 196, 24-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2021.04.033

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.

Systems leadership in practice: Thematic insights from three public health case studies (2020)
Journal Article
Bigland, C., Evans, D., Bolden, R., & Rae, M. (2020). Systems leadership in practice: Thematic insights from three public health case studies. BMC Public Health, 20, Article 1735. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09641-1

Background: ‘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
Biddle, M., Gibson, A., & Evans, D. (2021). Attitudes and approaches to patient and public involvement across Europe: A systematic review. Health and Social Care in the Community, 29(1), 18-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13111

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
Bornioli, A., Evans, D., & Cotter, C. (2020). Evaluation of the UK Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework (PHSKF): Implications for international competency frameworks. BMC Public Health, 20(1), Article 956. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09024-6

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.

What price public health? Funding the local public health system in England post-2013 (2020)
Journal Article
Evans, D. (2021). What price public health? Funding the local public health system in England post-2013. Critical Public Health, 31(4), 429-440. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2020.1713302

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.

How important is public health practitioner registration to UK public health employers? (2019)
Journal Article
Evans, D., & Gray, C. (2019). How important is public health practitioner registration to UK public health employers?. Public Health, 171, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2019.03.011

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?.

Exploring the multidisciplinary extent of public health career structures in 12 countries: an exploratory mapping (2018)
Journal Article
Manyara, A., Buunaaisie, C., Annett, H., Bird, E., Bray, I., Ige, J., …Evans, D. (2018). Exploring the multidisciplinary extent of public health career structures in 12 countries: an exploratory mapping. Journal of Public Health, 40(4), e538-e544. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy057

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
Crocker, J. C., Ricci-Cabello, I., Parker, A., Hirst, J. A., Chant, A., Petit-Zeman, S., …Rees, S. (2018). Impact of patient and public involvement on enrolment and retention in clinical trials: Systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ, 363(8178), Article k4738. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k4738

© 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)
Journal Article
Evans, D. (2020). Challenges and opportunities in documenting the recent history of public health: The health of Bristol after 1948. Social History of Medicine, 33(2), 641-658. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky104

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.