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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.

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)
Journal Article
Barker, J., Moule, P., Evans, D., Phillips, W., & Leggett, N. (2020). 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. BMJ Open, 10(5), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033370

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
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?.

Challenges and opportunities for involving patients and the public in acute antimicrobial medicine development research: An interview study (2019)
Journal Article
Gibson, A., Kok, M., Evans, D., Grier, S., & Macgowan, A. (2019). Challenges and opportunities for involving patients and the public in acute antimicrobial medicine development research: An interview study. BMJ Open, 9(4), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024918

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)
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.

Synthesising conceptual frameworks for patient and public involvement in research - A critical appraisal of a meta-narrative review (2018)
Journal Article
Evans, D., Hopewell-Kelly, N., Kok, M., & White, J. (2018). Synthesising conceptual frameworks for patient and public involvement in research - A critical appraisal of a meta-narrative review. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 18(1), 116. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-018-0572-0

© 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.

Developing the public health workforce: Training and recognizing specialists in public health from backgrounds other than medicine: Experience in the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Gray, S., & Evans, D. (2018). Developing the public health workforce: Training and recognizing specialists in public health from backgrounds other than medicine: Experience in the UK. Public Health Reviews, 39(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40985-018-0091-x

© 2018 The Author(s). Background: There is increasing recognition that improving health and tackling inequalities requires a strong public health workforce capable of delivering key public health functions across systems. The World Health Organizatio... Read More about Developing the public health workforce: Training and recognizing specialists in public health from backgrounds other than medicine: Experience in the UK.

Employability and career experiences of international graduates of MSc Public Health: a mixed methods study (2018)
Journal Article
Buunaaisie, C., Manyara, A., Annett, H., Bird, E., Bray, I., Ige, J., …Evans, D. (2018). Employability and career experiences of international graduates of MSc Public Health: a mixed methods study. Public Health, 160, 62-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2018.03.032

© 2018 The Royal Society for Public Health Objectives: This article aims to describe the public health career experiences of international graduates of a Master of Science in Public Health (MSc PH) programme and to contribute to developing the eviden... Read More about Employability and career experiences of international graduates of MSc Public Health: a mixed methods study.

Involving young people in drug and alcohol research (2018)
Journal Article
Brady, L. M., Templeton, L., Toner, P., Watson, J., Evans, D., Percy-Smith, B., & Copello, A. (2018). Involving young people in drug and alcohol research. Drugs and Alcohol Today, 18(1), 28-38. https://doi.org/10.1108/DAT-08-2017-0039

© 2018, Louca-Mai Brady, Lorna Templeton, Paul Toner, Judith Watson, David Evans, Barry Percy-Smith and Alex Copello. Purpose: Young people’s involvement should lead to research, and ultimately services, that better reflect young people’s priorities... Read More about Involving young people in drug and alcohol research.

Finding and engaging patients and the public to work collaboratively on an acute infection microbiology research public panel (2018)
Journal Article
Grier, S., Evans, D., Gibson, A., Chin, T. L., Stoddart, M., Kok, M., …Macgowan, A. (2018). Finding and engaging patients and the public to work collaboratively on an acute infection microbiology research public panel. Research Involvement and Engagement, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-018-0083-5

© The Author(s). Background In 2015 the microbiology research team became involved in a large European programme of research aiming to bring new antimicrobial drugs onto the market to combat the increasing problem of multi-drug resistant infection. W... Read More about Finding and engaging patients and the public to work collaboratively on an acute infection microbiology research public panel.

Extent, quality and impact of patient and public involvement in antimicrobial drug development research: A systematic review (2017)
Journal Article
Smedley, R., Misselbrook, E., Micciche, A., Marshall, R., Kane, N., Campbell, R., …MacGowan, A. (2018). Extent, quality and impact of patient and public involvement in antimicrobial drug development research: A systematic review. Health Expectations, 21(1), 75-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12587

© 2017 The Authors Health Expectations Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Background: Patient and public involvement (PPI) is increasingly recognized as bringing a range of benefits to clinical and health services research. Recent systematic review... Read More about Extent, quality and impact of patient and public involvement in antimicrobial drug development research: A systematic review.

What’s in a “research passport”? A collaborative autoethnography of institutional approvals in public involvement in research (2016)
Journal Article
Donald, C., Laterza, V., Evans, D., Davies, R., Donald, C., & Rice, C. (2016). What’s in a “research passport”? A collaborative autoethnography of institutional approvals in public involvement in research. Research Involvement and Engagement, 2(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-016-0033-z

© 2016 Laterza et al. Background In the growing literature on public involvement in research (PIR), very few works analyse PIR organizational and institutional dimensions in depth. We explore the complex interactions of PIR with institutions and bure... Read More about What’s in a “research passport”? A collaborative autoethnography of institutional approvals in public involvement in research.

"Calling executives and clinicians to account": User involvement in commissioning cancer services (2015)
Journal Article
Evans, D., Bacon, R., Greer, E., Stagg, A., & Turton, P. (2015). "Calling executives and clinicians to account": User involvement in commissioning cancer services. Health Expectations, 18(4), 504-515. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12051

Background: English NHS guidance emphasises the importance of involving users in commissioning cancer services. There has been considerable previous research on involving users in service improvement but not on involvement in commissioning cancer ser... Read More about "Calling executives and clinicians to account": User involvement in commissioning cancer services.