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- Qualifications:PhD, MBBS, FFPH
- Position:Professor of Public Health
- Department:School of Health and Social Wellbeing
- Telephone:+441173288583
- Email:Julie.Mytton@uwe.ac.uk
About me
Julie qualified in medicine from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London in 1990. After working in General Practice and Community Paediatrics she has specialised in Public Health since 2001. She worked as a Consultant in Public Health in Bristol between 2008 and 2015, as the lead for children and young people.
Julie's primary research interest is injury prevention, particularly the epidemiology of injuries and generating evidence to inform injury prevention practice and policy change. Increasingly, her injury prevention research has been focused in low- and middle-income countries where the burden of injuries is greatest. She has a particular interest in building research capacity and capability among early and mid-career researchers.
Selected recent research awards:
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Nepal Injury Research (Ref:16/137/49, 2017-2021) – this four year award enabled the establishment of the Nepal Injury Research Centre with collaborators at Kathmandu Medical College in Nepal. A full list of outputs from this programme of research is available via the NIHR Award page.
A ‘Safe system’ Approach to Enabling TRaffic Injury Prevention in Nepal (SafeTrip Nepal) is a four year programme of road safety research funded through the NIHR Global Health Systems and Policy Research Programme award to improve road safety in Nepal (Ref: NIHR150089, 2022-2026)
Sonamoni is a four year research study lead by the University of Bournemouth and the Centre for Injury Prevention Research Bangladesh with UWE and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to develop an intervention to prevent drowning in children under the age of 2 years in rural Bangladesh. The study is funded through the NIHR Research on Interventions for Global Health Transformation programme (Ref: NIHR203216, 2022-2026)
Maximising learning from child road fatalities: evidence for action is a 2 year study funded by the Road Safety Trust. Julie is collaborating with colleagues at University College London, University of Bristol and the University of Nottingham to analyse data held on the National Child Mortality Database on fatal road traffic injuries between 2019-2024 and consider implications for policy and practice (2024-2026).
The NIHR HealthTech Research Centre for Brain and Spine Injury (NIHR205305) is a five year award to use technology to support people affected by acquired brain and spine injuries. Julie co-leads the prevention theme. Listen to a podcast about this theme here. (2024-2029)
The Mental Health Research Development Award (NIHR207477) is a one year study to support the development of an application to become a Mental Health Research Group (2024-2025)
Roles
Global Health theme lead for the Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing in the School for Health and Social Wellbeing
Deputy Director of the Centre for Academic Child Health, a joint University of Bristol-UWE research centre
Co-Lead for Training and Capacity Building at the Applied Research Collaboration West of England (ARC West)
Area of expertise
Global health, Children and young people's health, injury prevention, applied systems research, research capacity development.
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