Area of research
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health · General Health Professions
Research interest
Research interests include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Child and Adolescent Health, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare.
A call to action: the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing
Feasibility study of Learning Together for Mental Health: fidelity, reach and acceptability of a whole-school intervention aiming to promote health and wellbeing in secondary schools
Changing patterns of health risk in adolescence: implications for health policy
Qualitative study of the feasibility and acceptability of implementation, and potential mechanisms of Learning Together for Mental Health, a whole-school intervention aiming to promote mental health and wellbeing in secondary schools
Public engagement to refine a whole-school intervention to promote adolescent mental health
Pediatric Hospitalizations and ICU Admissions Due to COVID-19 and Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With SARS-CoV-2 in England
Persistent symptoms are associated with long term effects of COVID-19 among children and young people: Results from a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies
Approaches to consent in public health research in secondary schools
Statistical and agent-based modelling of the transmissibility of different SARS-CoV-2 variants in England and impact of different interventions
Modelling the impact of reopening schools in the UK in early 2021 in the presence of the alpha variant and with roll-out of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2
Schools should still be the last to close and first to open if there were any future lockdown
Do school closures and school reopenings affect community transmission of COVID-19? A systematic review of observational studies
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by children and young people in households and schools: A meta-analysis of population-based and contact-tracing studies
Modelling the potential impact of mask use in schools and society on COVID-19 control in the UK
School closure and management practices during coronavirus outbreaks including COVID-19: a rapid systematic review
Susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Children and Adolescents Compared With Adults
Determining the optimal strategy for reopening schools, the impact of test and trace interventions, and the risk of occurrence of a second COVID-19 epidemic wave in the UK: a modelling study
Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic: governments must balance the uncertainty and risks of reopening schools against the clear harms associated with prolonged closure
An evidence-based theory of change for reducing SARS-CoV-2 transmission in reopened schools
Improving the assessment and management of obesity in UK children and adolescents: the PROMISE research programme including a RCT
Effects of the school environment on early sexual risk behavior: A longitudinal analysis of students in English secondary schools
Progress in adolescent health and wellbeing: tracking 12 headline indicators for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016
Action groups as a participative strategy for leading whole‐school health promotion: Results on implementation from the <scp>INCLUSIVE</scp> trial in English secondary schools
Adolescence and the next generation
A community-based motivational personalised lifestyle intervention to reduce BMI in obese adolescents: results from the Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Programme (HELP) randomised controlled trial
Cost‐effectiveness of bariatric surgery in adolescents with severe obesity in the UK
Is arterial stiffening associated with adiposity, severity of obesity and other contemporary cardiometabolic markers in a community sample of adolescents with obesity in the UK?
Burden of child and adolescent obesity on health services in England
Arterial stiffening, insulin resistance and acanthosis nigricans in a community sample of adolescents with obesity
Survey of antiobesity drug prescribing for obese children and young people in UK primary care