Title and Name
Dr Emma Pitchforth
Position
Organisation
Contact
Associate Director; Innovation, Health and Science
RAND Europe
epitchfo@rand.org
Qualifications
2004
PhD Public Health, University of Aberdeen
Thesis title: Emergency obstetric care in Bangladesh: needs of poor women
2000
BSc (Hons) Health Sciences, First Class, University of Aberdeen
Employment History
Aug 15 – present
Associate Director; Innovation, Health and Science group, RAND
Europe
Jan 12 – Jul 15
Research Leader, Health and Healthcare, RAND Europe
Sep 13 - present
Affiliate member Pardee RAND Graduate School faculty
(maternity leave Oct 2014 to Sep 2015)
Jun 08 – Dec 2011
Jamsetji Tata Senior Research Fellow, LSE Health
Jan 10 – Dec 2011
Deputy Director, LSE Health
(maternity leave Aug 2010 to Aug 2011)
Jan 05- May 08
Lecturer in Social Science and Health, University of Leicester
Nov 03- Dec 04
Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen
Jul 02 – Sep 02
Research Assistant
Aberdeen
Apr 00 -Sep 00
Research Assistant, University of Aberdeen
(part-time),
IMMPACT,
University
of
Current visiting appointments
Jan 12 – present
Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow, Institute of Public Health,
University of Cambridge
Apr 12 – present
Visiting Fellow, University of Bournemouth
Journal articles
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Pitchforth E, Roland M. Specialist services in the community: a qualitative study of consultants
holding novel types of employment contracts in England. Future Hospital Journal 2015;
2(3):173-9.
Goodenough T, Kay B, Deave T, Towner E, Stewart J, Ablewhite J, Hawkins A, McDaid L,
Pitchforth E, Kendrick D. What are the barriers and facilitators to injury prevention
interventions in English Children’s Centres? A qualitative study of English Children’s
Centre managers and staff. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education
2015; doi: 10.1080/14635240.2015.1065710
McKenzie Bryers H, Pitchforth E, van Teijlingen E. Mixed methods in health research. Nepal
Journal of Epidemiology. 2014;4(5):47-22..
Miani C, Ball S, Pitchforth E, Exley J, King S, Roland M, Fuld J, Nolte E. Organisational
interventions to reduce length of stay in hospital: a rapid evidence assessment. Health
Services and Delivery Research, 2014;2:204.
Deave T, Towner E, McColl E, Reading R, Sutton A, Coupland C, Cooper N, Stewart J, Hayes M,
Pitchforth E, Watson M, Kendrick D. Multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial
evaluating implementation of a fire-prevention Injury Prevention Briefing in children’s
centres: study protocol. BMC Public Health 01/2014; 14(1):69.
Baskayne K, Willars J, Pitchforth E, Tincello D. Women’s expectations of prolapse surgery: a
retrospective qualitative study. Neurourology and Urodynamics 2013; doi:
10.1002/nau.22380
De-Graft-Aikins A, Arhinful DK, Pitchforth E, Ogedegbe G, Allotey P, Agyemang C. Establishing
and sustaining research partnerships in Africa: a case study of the UK-Africa academic
partnership on chronic disease. Globalization and Health 2012;8:29.
De-Graft-Aikins A, Pitchforth E, Allotey P, Ogdegbe G, Agyemang C. Culture, ethnicity and chronic
conditions: reframing concepts and methods for research, interventions and policy in
low- and middle-income countries. Ethnicity and Health 2012; 17(6):551-561.
Bisht R, Pitchforth E, Murray SF. Understanding India, globalisation and health care systems: a
mapping of research in the social sciences. Globalization and Health 2012;8:32.
Murray SF, Bisht R, Baru R, Pitchforth E. Understanding health systems, health economies and
globalization: the need for social science perspectives. Globalization and Health
2012;8:30.
Pitchforth E, Weaver S, Willars J, Wwrzkowicz E, Luyt D, Dixon-Woods M. A qualitative study of
families of a child with a nut allergy. Chronic Illness; August 2011.
DOI:10.1177/1742395311411591.
Bakali E, Pitchforth E, Kenyan S, Slack M, Tooza-Hobson P, Jones DR, Taylor D, Tincello D.
Clinicians’ views on the feasibility of surgical randomised trials in urogynaecology: results
of a questionnaire study. Neurology and Urodynamics 2011; 30:69-74.
van Teijlingen E, Simkhada B, Porter M, Simkhada P, Pitchforth E, Bhatta P. Qualitative research
and its place in health research in Nepal. Kathmandu University Medical Journal
01/2011.
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Pitchforth E, Lilford RJ, Kebede Y, Asres G, Stanford C, Frost J. Assessing and understanding
quality of care in a labour ward: a pilot study combining clinical and social science
perspectives in Gondar, Ethiopia. Social Science & Medicine 2010; 71: 1739-1748.
van Teijlingen E, Pitchforth E. Rural maternity care: can we learn from Wal-mart? Health & Place
2010;16:359-364.
Tucker J, McVicar A, Pitchforth E, Bryers H, Farmer J. Maternity care models in a remote and
rural network: assessing clinical appropriateness and outcome indicators. Quality and
Safety in Health Care 2010; 19:359-364.
Al-Attas AH, Williams CD, Pitchforth EL, O’Callaghan C, Lewallan S. Understanding delay in
accessing specialist emergency eye care in a developing country: eye trauma in Tanzania.
Opthalmic Epidemiology 2010; 17; 103-112.
Williams CD, O’Callaghan C, Pitchforth E. Computers, the internet and medical education in
Africa. Medical Education 2010;44:485-488.
Pitchforth E, van Teijlingen E, Watson V, Tucker JS, Kiger A, Ireland J, Farmer J, Rennie A-M, Gibb
S, Martin E, Ryan M. 'Choice' and place of delivery: a qualitative study of women in
remote and rural Scotland. Quality and Safety in Health Care 2009;18:42-48.
Dixon-Woods M, Soukas A, Pitchforth E, Tarrant C. An ethnographic study of classifying and
accounting for risk at the sharp end of medical wards. Social Science & Medicine
2009;63:362-369.
Poobalan AS, Pitchforth E, Imamura M, Lakshmi M, Tucker JS, Philip K, Spratt J, van Teijlingen E.
Characteristics of effective interventions in improving young people’s sexual health: a
review of reviews. Sex Education 2009; 9:319-336.
Pitchforth E, Watson V, Tucker J, Ryan M, van Teijlingen E, Farmer J, Ireland J, Martin E, Kiger A,
Bryers H. Models of intrapartum care and women’s trade-offs in remote and rural
Scotland: a mixed methods study. BJOG 2008;115:560-569.
Edelstein M, Pitchforth E, Asres G, Silverman M, Kulkarni N. Awareness of health effects of
cooking smoke among women in the Gondar Region of Ethiopia: a pilot study. BMC
International Health and Human Rights 2008;8:10.
Doshani A, Pitchforth E, Mayne C, Tincello DG. The value of qualitative research in
urogynaecology. BJOG 2008; 116(1): 3-6.
Doshani A, Pitchforth E, Mayne CJ, Tincello DG. Culturally sensitive continence care: a qualitative
study among south Asian Indian women in Leicester. Family Practice 2007; 24:585-593.
Pitchforth E, van Teijlingen E, Graham W, Fitzmaurice A. Development of a proxy wealth index
for women utilising emergency obstetric care in Bangladesh. Health Policy and Planning
2007;22:311-319.
Pitchforth E, van Teijlingen E, Graham W, Dixon-Woods M, Chowdhury M. Getting women to
hospital is not enough: a qualitative study of access to emergency obstetric care in
Bangladesh. Quality and Safety in Health Care 2006;15:214-219.
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Kenyon S, Dixon-Woods M, Jackson C, Windridge K, Pitchforth E. Participating in a trial in a
critical situation: a qualitative study in pregnancy. Quality and Safety in Health Care
2006;15:98-101.
van Teijlingen E, Pitchforth E, Bishop C, Russell E. Delphi method and nominal group techniques
in family planning and reproductive health research. Journal of Family Planning &
Reproductive Health Care 2006;32:30-32.
van Teijlengen E, Pitchforth E. Focus group research in family planning and reproductive health
care, Journal of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care 2006;32:30-32.
Pitchforth E, van Teijlingen E. International public health research involving interpreters: a case
study from Bangladesh. BMC Public Health 2005 5:71.
Forrest Keenan F, van Teijlingen E, Pitchforth E. The analysis of qualitative research data in
family planning and reproductive health care. Journal of Family Planning & Reproductive
Health Care 2005; 31:40-43.
Pitchforth E, Porter M, van Teijlingen E, Forrest Keenan K. Writing up and presenting qualitative
research in family planning and reproductive health care. Journal of Family Planning &
Reproductive Health Care 2005;31:132-135, 2005.
Pitchforth E, Russell E, van der Pol M. Access to specialist cancer care: is it equitable? British
Journal of Cancer 2002; 87:1221-1226.
Other publications
Miani C, Hinrichs S, Pitchforth E, Bienkowska-Gibbs T, Disbeschl S, Roland M, Nolte E. Best
practice: medical training from an international perspective. Santa Monica: RAND
Corporation,2015.
Nolte E, Pitchforth E, Miani C, McHugh S. The changing hospital landscape: an exploration of
international experiences. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2014.
Nolte E, Pitchforth E. What is the evidence of economic impacts of integrated care. European
Observatory for Health Systems and Policies. Policy Brief 11. Copenhagen: World Health
Organization, 2014.
Schweppenstedde D, Hinrichs S, Ogbu U, Schneider EC, Kringos DS, Klazinga NS, Healy J,
Vuorenkoski L, Busse R, Guerin B, Pitchforth E, Nolte E. Regulating quality and safety of
health and social care: international experiences. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation,
2014.
Mladovsky P, Saleh WF, Pitchforth E, Jacobzone S, Thomson S. ‘Private health insurance in low
and middle income countries’ forthcoming book chapter In: Private Health Insurance and
Medical Savings Accounts: the International Experience, Cambridge University Press.
(forthcoming)
Pitchforth E, Nolte E, Miani C, Winpenny E. Options for effective mechanisms to inform evidenceinformed policymaking in RMNCH in Asia and the Pacific. Geneva: World Health
Organisation, 2013.
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Strelitz J, Nolte E, Pitchforth E, Miani C, Winpenny E, Henman M-L, Ball S, Jahagirdar D. The
economic case for a shift to prevention. In: Annual report of the Chief Medical Officer
2012, Our children deserve better: prevention pays. UK: Department of Health, 2013.
Friedberg MW, Chen PG, Van Busum KR, Aunon F, Pham C, Caloyeras J, Mattke S, Pitchforth E et
al. Factors affecting physician professional satisfaction and their implications for patient
care, health systems and health policy. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2013.
Miani C, Pitchforth E, Nolte E. Choice of primary care provider: a review of experiences in three
countries. London: Policy Innovation Research Unit, 2013.
Achadi E, Pitchforth E, Hussein J. Quality of Care. In: Hussein J, McCaw-Binns A, Webber R (Eds)
Maternal and perinatal health in developing countries. CABI: Wallingford, UK, 2012.
Coast E, McDaid D, Leone T, Pitchforth E, Matthews Z, Iemmi V, Hirose A, Macrae-Gibson R,
Secker J, Jones E. What are the effects of different models of delivery for improving
maternal and infant health outcomes for poor people in urban areas in low income and
middle income countries? London: EPPICentre, Social Science Research Unit. Institute of
Education, University of London, 2012.
Pitchforth E, van Teijlingen E. Health: a rural perspective. Chapter In: Alder B, Abraham C, van
Teijlingen E, Porter M (Eds). Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine; Churchill
Livingstone (3rd edition), 2009. p160-161.
van Teijlingen E, Tucker J, Philip K, Spratt J, Poobalan A, Pitchforth E, Imamura M, Forbes S,
Vascianovich A. A review of sex and relationships education in Scottish secondary schools.
Health Scotland: Edinburgh, 2008.
Beck V, Quinn M, Dunn A, Otter ME, Hammer N, Pitchforth E. The economics of health. Final
report, East Midlands Development Agency, 2008.
Tucker J, Farmer J, Bryers H, Kiger A, van Teijlingen E, Ryan M, Pitchforth E, on behalf of the
Research Project Team. Sustainable Maternity Service Provision in Remote and Rural
Scotland: implementing and evaluating maternity care models for remote and rural
Scotland. NHS Scotland, RARARI: Dumfries, 2006.
Research grants
grant s
Nolte E, Roland M, Pitchforth E, van Teijlingen E. Advancing community hospitals and services in
the NHS: learning from international experiences. NIHR HS&DR, £344,305.65, Mar 14 –
Feb 16.
Okeke E, Glick P, Abubakar I, Onwujekwe O, Pitchforth E, Chari A, Setodji C. Better obstetrics in
rural Nigeria (BORN study): Evaluation of Midwifery Service Scheme (MSS). 3ie,
$450,000, 2013- 2015.
Roland M, Nolte E, Pitchforth E. Outpatient services and primary care: scoping review, case
studies and international comparisons. NIHR HS&DR, £264,644, Apr 2013 - Sep 2014.
Nolte E, Ling T, Roland M, Newbould J, Pitchforth E, Lyratzopoulos G, Abel G, Barclay S.
Evaluation of the Univesity College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre. Macmillan Cancer
Care, £259,797, Mar 2012 - Feb 2015.
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Nolte E, Roland M, Pitchforth E, McGuire A, Abel G. Evaluation of the Lambeth and Southwark
Integrated Care Pilot. Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust,£200,383. Aug 2012 Aug 2016.
Nolte E, Pitchforth E, Miani C. Evidence response mechanisms for RMNCH in Asia and the Pacific.
Partnership for Maternal and Child Health and Implementation Research Board, WHO
Geneva, $115,000.
Pitchforth E, Development of conceptual framework and indicators as part of Quality Facility
Births and Kits Project, sub contact from University of Aberdeen funded by Royal
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, 2009-2010, £30,000.
Murray SF, Baru R, Pitchforth E, India’s challenge in a globalizing health care economy: social
science directions. ESRC Rising Powers Network Grant, Feb 2010 – 2011, £71,985.
Coast E, Leone T, Knapp M, Pitchforth E, Mental health and poverty in low income countries, LSE
Seed Fund, from June 2010, £22,944.
Coast E, Leone T, McDaid D, Pitchforth E, What are the effective models of delivery of maternal
and child health outcomes for poor people in urban areas in low-income countries?
Systematic review. Department for International Development, June 2010 – Aug 2011.
Mossialos EA, Pitchforth E, Mladovosky P. Transferring health policy knowledge from Europe to
the English context. Higher Education Innovation Fund 4, 2008 – 2010. £50,000.
Beck V, Dunn A, Edmunds-Otter M, Pitchforth E, Quinn M, Hammer N. Economics of Health. East
Midlands Development Agency (EmDA), Nov 2007 – Mar 2008. £30,000.
Pitchforth E, Lilford R, Kebede Y. Understanding patient safety: obstetric care in Ethiopia. The
British Academy Small Grant Scheme, May 2007 – Dec 2007, £5,264.
Pitchforth E, Wawrzkowicz E, Luyt D, Dixon-Woods M. A qualitative study to explore the
experiences of children and their families living with nut allergy. Midlands Asthma and
Allergy Research Association (MAARA), May 2007-May2009, £11,550.
Heller S, Davies MJ, Campbell MJ, Carey ME, Dallosso HM, Dixon S, Khunti K, Pitchforth E,
Skinner C. Does self monitoring of blood glucose as opposed to urinalysis provide
additional benefit to newly diagnosed individuals with Type 2 diabetes receiving
structured education? Diabetes UK, Sep 2007 – Feb 2010, £351,495.
Van Teijlingen E, Tucker J, Poobablan A, Philip K, Spratt J, Imamura M, Pitchforth E, Astin M. Sex
and Relationship Education: Review of Programmes. NHS Scotland, Apr 2006-Dec 2006,
£59,872.
Harris H, Pitchforth E, Mayne CJ, Terry T, Tincello DG. A study to explore the expectations of
women having prolapse surgery. Johnson & Johnson Medical, Nov 2006 – Dec 2007.
$41,388.
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O’Callaghan C, Williams C, Pitchforth E. Developing multimedia learning resources for health
workers in the developing world: an exploration. David Baum Foundation, Nov 2006 –
Dec 2007, £19,971.
Van Teijlingen E, Yakubu B, Simkhada P, Pitchforth E, Eboh W, Bhattacharya S. Systematic review
of sexual health interventions with young people from Black and Minority Ethnic
communities. NHS Scotland, May 2005-Aug 2005, £15,000.
Van Teijlingen E, Tucker J, Poobablan A, Philip K, Spratt J, Imamura M, Pitchforth E, Astin M. Sex
and Relationship Education: Review of Programmes. NHS Scotland, Apr 2006-Dec 2006,
£59,872.
Tucker J, Farmer J, Byers H, Kiger A, van Teijlingen E, Ryan M, Pitchforth E. Sustainable Maternity
Serivce Provision in Remote and Rural Areas of Scotland: developing, implementing and
evaluating appropriate maternity care models for remote and rural Scotland. Funder
NHS Scotland RARARI, January 2004-March 2005, £107, 876.
Selected
Selected external roles
Member of Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Wellbeing of Women Research
Advisory Committee, 2010 to 2014.
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Globalization and Health http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/, June 2008
to 2013.
External PhD examiner, University of Southampton (2009), University of Aberdeen (2010).
External Examiner, MPH Programme, University of Gondar, Ethiopia, 2005 to 2008.
Advisor to ‘Keeping children safe at home: a multicentre collaborative research programme to
reduce childhood injuries’. Kendrick D et al., NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme
Grant, 2008-2014.
Advisor to ‘The practice of obstetric care in Mumbai: an ethical analysis’. Jesani A et al.
Wellcome Trust grant, 2009-2012.
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