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Institute of Health

Completed research projects

Various
2008-09

Evaluation of Rosetta Life Social Arts Activities for the Pan Birmingham Palliative Care Network 

PI:  Gillian Hundt (Institute of Health)
Co-Investigators:  Shelia Galloway (Education), Claudette Bryanston (Institute of Health), Maria Stuttaford (Institute of Health)
2008
ESRC Visiting Middle East Fellowship

for Dr Al Makhamreh    

2007-09
£15,449 - ESRC Seminar Series 

Global Health and Human Rights

with Maria Stuttaford (IoH, Warwick)  and John Harrington (School of Law, University of Liverpool )

2007-09
£57,000 - National Health Institute for Innovation and Improvement - NHSI 

PhD studentship to evaluate the impact of videos on hospital associated infections for changing staff behaviour and culture

2007
£3,800 - British Council/Netherlands Partnership in Science Programme 

Seminars on Health and Diabetes and Obesity with scientists and social scientists from the University of Maastricht (NUTRIM) and the University of Warwick (SHSS and WMS)

2006-08
£60,000 - BLISS/WMSSA/Grace’s Fund

Evaluating the impact of User Representatives on Newborn Networks

2006-08
£296,999 - NHS R&D SD0 programme 

Inpatient Staff morale: a national investigation  

2005-09
1,000,000 €.- £680,000 European Commission INCO DEV

Mediterranean  inequalities of care and access to marginal peoples: Bedouin and Rural Health Care in Jordan and Lebanon
Co-ordinator – Partners Universities of  Oxford, Stockholm, Philadelphia (Jordan), American University of Beirut,  CERMES INSERM (France).
2005-08
£143,000 - Burdett Nursing Foundation

Improving End of Life Care and Building Nursing Research Capacity

2005

Evaluation of Home Care for those with Sight Loss - Pocklington Trust - £ 10,000
2005-06 

HEIF2 for Knowledge Transfer to Communities of Interest for supporting the development of the User Forum in Teaching and Research in Health and Social Care - £ 48,000
2004-05

ESRC Collective Rights to Health: Experiences of Homeless Families - £ 45,000
2004

RNIB National Evaluation of Low Vision Committees - £ 10,000 

2003-04 Cultures of the Gene - Discourse Dialogue & Debate
With Dr D. L. Steinberg, University of Warwick


ESRC, Innovative Technologies in Health Programme

2001-04

Social Implications Of One Stop First Trimester Prenatal Screening
With Professor J Sandall, Dr C Williams, Dr K Spencer, Kings College and Professor Heyman, City University
Link to project web page: http://www.york.ac.uk/res/iht/index.htm
 

Trust, Non Communicable Diseases in Developing Countries
2001-03 Southern African Stroke Prevention Initiative: the pilot stage
With Dr M Thorogood, LSHTM, Dr S Tollman, Dr M O Connor, Professor J Milne, University of Witwarstrand, South Africa.
Further information and photos
SASPI webpage
   

Wellcome Trust, Health Services Reseach Programme
2000-03        The needs and experiences of Families of Children with Severe Visual Impairment and the role of a Liaison Service to support them
In collaboration with Dr Jugnoo Rahi, Dr David Taylor, Professor Catherine Peckham at the Institute of Child Health, University College.
   

Economic Social Science Research Council - Risking Independence
2000-2003 The Lifestyles, Choices and Health Needs of Swahili Female Heroin Users in Malindi, Kenya
Co-Investigator with Dr Susan Beckerleg, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
   

Andrew Mellon Foundation
1999 – 2002 ‘Children and Adolescents in Palestinian Households: Living the effects of Prolonged Conflict and Forced Migration - a Palestinian case study of households in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine
In collaboration with Dr Dawn Chatty, Refugee Studies Programme, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. Teams based in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the West Bank and Gaza.
   

Leverhulme Trust
1999 Research Fellowship for six months to write on the Politics and Practice of Research.
   

Concerted action network  DGX11 European Commission
1995 – 1998 The MAMAH network to maximise maternal health in the Arab world. This sets up annual meetings regionally and produces a biannual newsletter in English, French and Arabic for the Maghreb and the Mashrak 
With Dr Oona Campbell.
   

Health Education Authority, UK to undertake a literature review 
1998 Participatory Action Research in relation to Health Inequalities
With Dr Susan Rifkin and Dr Alizon Draper
   

Avicenne initiative of the European Commission
1994 – 99 To co-ordinate an evaluation of maternal and child health preventive services and to develop some systemic health service reforms amongst the Bedouin in the Negev, Israel, and amongst Palestinians in Gaza- Evaluated as outstanding
   

DGX11  European Commission
1995 To organise a conference in Gaza on the Future of Palestinian Health Research for Palestinians and Europeans.
   

US/Israel Binational Fund
1990-92 Principal Investigator of 2 year study Monitoring the Growth and Development of Negev Bedouin Arab Children
With Principal Investigators from the National Institute of Health, Betheseda Dr Heinz Berendes, NICHD, and Dr Michele Forman, NCI, NIH Betheseda