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Aims and Objectives
The Young Lives Public Health Group aims to provide the Young Lives project team with health advise
as necessary and to contribute to health and development related research.
The Young Lives data affords inherent advantages for health research, namely:
✦its prospective cohort design which enables the establishment of temporal relationship between
various risk factors and health and the relationship between health and welfare;
✦the utilisation of both quantitative and qualitative information;
✦the breadth of the data;
✦the various levels of information collected from individual to country level; and,
✦the inclusion of children’s perspectives.
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Morbidity
Nutrition
Subjective
Health
Health
Service
Utilisation
Health
Seeking
Behaviour
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Morbidity
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✦child labour
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✦access to water and sanitation
✦caregiver’s education
✦education
✦household size
✦economic status
✦birth order
✦gender
✦social network
✦amount of sleep
✦vaccination status
✦season/climate
✦access to information
Morbidity
✦long term illness
✦serious injuries
✦serious illness
✦other illnesses (qualitative
research)
Outcome
✦anthropometry
✦cognitive impairment
✦effects on education
✦effects on social networks
✦ability to work
✦subjective health
✦economic status of household
(costs for treatment, income)
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The Young Lives Public Health Group is composed of:
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Proochista Ariana
Inka Batnett
Laura Camfield
Lucy Carpenter
Stavros Petrou
Emma Plugge
Premila Webster
Steven Allender
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Proochista Ariana
Core Team Proochista specializes in the interaction between processes of development and health. Within this framework, she uses the capability
approach to understand health and its multidimensional nature. She has a masters in International Health from Harvard University and
Proochista Ariana
Inka Barnett a doctorate in International Development from University of Oxford. Her doctoral research focused on indigenous populations in
Laura Camfield Southern Mexico and she is currently working on research examining transitions and health in China. She has been a researcher with
Lucy Carpenter
Stavrous Petrou OPHI since its beginning and involved in organizing the past three Human Development Training Courses in conjunction with UNDPEmma Plugge HDRO.
Premila Webster
Steven Allender
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Inka Batnett
Core Team Inka Barnett has an MSc in Public Health Nutrition from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a BSc in Nutritional
Sciences from the University of Bonn. Before joining Young Lives, she worked on HIV/AIDS and nutrition for the German Development
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Inka Barnett Service (DED) in South Africa. She has also held various positions as research assistant in health projects in Kenya, Uganda, Benin,
Laura Camfield and Germany.
Lucy Carpenter
Stavrous Petrou
Emma Plugge
Premila Webster
Steven Allender
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Laura Camfield
Core Team Laura Camfield has a PhD and MA in Anthropology from University of London, and her research focuses on experiences of poverty,
resilience, and methodologies for exploring and measuring subjective well-being in developing countries. She was a research fellow
Proochista Ariana
Inka Barnett with the Wellbeing in Developing Countries Group from 2002-2007, and also coordinated their research in Thailand. Laura is one of the
Laura Camfield Young Lives Child Research Coordinators based in Oxford, working closely on the theme of 'Risk, Protective Processes, and
Lucy Carpenter
Stavrous Petrou Wellbeing' and has particular responsibility for coordinating research with the qualitative research teams in Ethiopia and Vietnam.
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Selected publications
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L. Camfield and D. Ruta (2007) '”Translation is Not Enough”: Using the Global Person Generated Index (GPGI) to assess Individual
Expertise Quality of Life in Bangladesh, Thailand, and Ethiopia’, Quality of Life Research 16(6): 1039-51
L. Camfield, K. Choudhury and J. Devine (2007) ‘Well-being, Happiness and Why Relationships Matter: Evidence from Bangladesh’,
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Journal of Happiness Studies (online as DOI 10.1007/s10902-007-9062-5).
Contact I. Gough, I, J.A. McGregor and L. Camfield (2007) ‘Introduction: Conceiving Well-being in Development Contexts’ in I. Gough and J.A.
McGregor (eds) Well-being in Developing Countries: New Approaches and Research Strategies, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press
L. Camfield and J.A. McGregor (2005) ‘Resilience and Well-being in Developing Countries’ in M. Ungar (ed.) Handbook for Working
with Children and Youth: Pathways to Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts, London: Sage Publications
L. Camfield (2004) ‘Measuring SWB in Developing Countries’ in W. Glatzer, S. Von Below and M. Stoffregen (eds) Challenges for the
Quality of Life in Contemporary Societies, Amsterdam: Kluwer
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Lucy Carpenter
Core Team Lucy Carpenter holds the permanent academic post of Reader in Statistical Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health,
University of Oxford where she has been employed since 1992. She is also a Fellow of Nuffield College which focuses on research in
Proochista Ariana
Inka Barnett the social sciences. Her research interests are encompassed by the specific public health arena of epidemiology and these primarily
Laura Camfield involve observational studies of cancer and infectious diseases. She also has interests in methodological issues arising from
Lucy Carpenter
Stavrous Petrou epidemiological research, including study design and analytical methods. One research topic on which she has published recently
Emma Plugge concerns a common type of childhood cancer in Ugandan children, Burkitt lymphoma. This project looked at a range of risk factors for
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this cancer, including two infections which are particularly widespread in this part of East Africa: Epstein Barr virus and malaria.
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Expertise Between 1996 and 1999, Lucy was based at the MRC Programme on AIDS in Uganda and was involved in a range of different projects
studying risk factors for HIV. This included being actively involved in a community randomised intervention trial studying the potential
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benefits of behaviour change and treatment for other sexually transmitted infections in reducing HIV transmission. Since returned from
Contact Uganda to Oxford, she has also pursued research in an area which she had formerly been highly active: occupational epidemiology.
This involved an historical cohort study of cause-specific mortality and cancer morbidity in 18,000 military veterans who were exposed
to chemicals in human experiments carried out at Porton Down between 1941 and 1989.
Prior to coming to Oxford in 1992, Lucy worked for 7 years with the Epidemiological Monitoring Unit at the London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine. During this period, her major research activities focussed on studying cancer in nuclear industry workers
particularly in relation to their exposure to ionising radiation. She also pursued doctoral research during this time and addressed the
methodological issue of health related selection effects in cohort studies of occupational groups such as these. Prior to working at the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, she spent 3 years based at Wellington Clinical School of Medicine and 3 years at the
Royal Free Hospital in London. The latter job involved her in her first epidemiological research projects, studying cancer risks in
association with type of water source. Her first degree was in economics and statistics from the University of Exeter. Her MSc and
PhD degrees are in epidemiology, both from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Stavros Petrou
Core Team Stavros Petrou graduated in economics at University College London, after which he received an MPhil in economics and a PhD in
health economics from the University of St Andrews. The subject of his doctoral dissertation was the use of health status measurement
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Inka Barnett methods in economic evaluations of health care. Following completion of his PhD, he was employed as a research fellow in health
Laura Camfield economics at the Academic Department of Public Health, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London. Stavros was appointed as the
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Stavrous Petrou core Health Economist at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, in March 1997 with responsibility for
Emma Plugge designing, conducting and supervising research on questions relevant to health economics. This includes descriptions of resource
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availability, accessibility and use in maternity and neonatal care; questions concerning the relative costs and benefits of using perinatal
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health care resources in different ways; and investigation of different methods for economic evaluation within the perinatal context.
Expertise Stavros is also employed as a Senior Research Officer at the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC), University of Oxford. Within
HERC he has responsibility for all economic research broadly related to the fields of perinatal and paediatric health care. He has
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recently been awarded a Medical Research Council Senior Non-Clinical Research Fellowship to conduct a 5 year programme of
Contact methodological and applied research on economic aspects of perinatal and paediatric health care. He has been conferred the title of
Reader by the University of Oxford’s Distinctions Committee.
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Emma Plugge
Core Team Emma Plugge trained as a medical doctor and after qualifying worked as a clinician in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa. She has
practised as a public health doctor since 1996 and whilst working at the European headquarters of WHO in Copenhagen in 2001 she
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Inka Barnett worked on a project examining urban health and poverty and authored a number of working papers. She now focuses solely on
Laura Camfield teaching and research. She has expertise in both qualitative and quantitative health research methods and is the course director for the
Lucy Carpenter
Stavrous Petrou MSc in Global Health Science. Her areas of interest are gender, poverty and inequality in health. Her current work examines the health
Emma Plugge of some of the most socially marginalised groups: asylum seekers, offenders and those at risk of offending (sex workers, the homeless,
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those who use illegal drugs) in the UK and Russia.
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Premila Webster
Core Team Dr. Premila Webster is a Consultant in Public Health and the Director of Education & Training in the department of Public Health at
Oxford University. Dr. Webster qualified as a doctor at CMC, Vellore, India. She spent a number of years working as a hospital doctor
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Inka Barnett and started a career in public health in 1991. She worked with the WHO Healthy Cities Project in Copenhagen and is the expert
Laura Camfield advisor to the WHO Healthy Cities Project on City Health Profiles and Indicators. Dr Webster’s research interests include screening
Lucy Carpenter
Stavrous Petrou and developing health profiles and indicators to provide the evidence base to determine health policy and to identify appropriate
Emma Plugge interventions for improving health. She is presently involved in research on childhood obesity specifically in relation to South Asians
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and is developing research collaborations with India to study the association between cardio-vascular disease risk factors and levels of
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urbanisation and developing the evidence-base to inform the public health strategy to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.
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Steven Allender
Core Team Steve joined the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group in July 2005. Before that he was a Research Fellow at the
University of Oxford Department of Public Health, where he was responsible for the Occupational Health Services in Higher Education
Proochista Ariana study, a UK wide study of occupational health service provision in UK universities. He has also worked on the epidemiological study of
Inka Barnett
Porton Down Veterans and taught research methods, health promotion and discourse analysis on a number of courses.
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Lucy Carpenter
Stavrous Petrou Steve has been the lead researcher for the Coronary heart disease statistics project since 2005. Steve is also responsible for the
Emma Plugge www.heartstats.org website, the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of statistics on CVD in the UK. It aims to show variations
Premila Webster and trends in CVD mortality, morbidity, treatment, rehabilitation, prevention and risk factors, and is updated on an on-going basis.
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The University of Oxford Department of Public Health has a distinguished record of research and in the
last two Research Assessment Exercises in 1996 and 2001, it has received, as part of the University of
Oxford's community-based clinical subjects submission, the highest possible rating of 5.
The Department has a number of renowned research groups and units providing a strong environment of
multi-disciplinary research, which includes epidemiology of cancer and HIV, occupational epidemiology,
epidemiology of diabetes and dyslipidaemias and health status and outcomes measurement. The Head
of Department is Professor Harold Jaffe, a prominent specialist in the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS. The
Deputy Head of Department and Director of Graduate Studies is Professor Ray Fitzpatrick who has an
international reputation in the field of health status and outcomes measurement.
In addition to its research activities, the Department is home to the MSc in Global Health Science.
Students also come here to undertake research for DPhil and MSc degrees. Teaching is provided for
undergraduates reading for Medicine and Public Health, doctors and specialists in training.
The Department’s research units include:
✦Health Economics Research Centre
✦National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit
✦Health Services Research Unit
✦British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Group
✦Oxford Centre for Ethics and Communication in Health Care
✦Unit of Health Care Epidemiology
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The Young Lives Health Group is currently working on the following projects:
✦Urbanicity and chronic diseases
✦Economic status and health outcomes
✦Maternal education or education of other household members and child nutritional status in Peru and
Vietnam
✦The impact of reproductive and child health policies on maternal and child health in Andhra Pradesh,
India
✦Shocks and child health in DaNang, Vietnam: a qualitative and quantitative study
✦Food security and nutrition transitions in Peru
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The Young Lives Health Group is currently working on the following projects:
✦Urbanicity and chronic diseases
It has been established that living in an urban, compared to a rural, environments in developing countries infers an increased risk of
chronic disease but little is known about the mechanisms underpinning these relationships. With colleagues Steve is developing a
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measure of urbanisation as an exposure for chronic disease risk which can be used to assess which elements of the environment are
associated with the emergence of which chronic disease risk factors. In the case of the Young Lives study, led by Steven Allender, this
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will mean examining which conditions predicate the emergence of unhealthy weight status among the different Young Lives cohorts.
This work compliments other ongoing studies in Sri Lanka, India and China.
✦Economic status and health outcomes
✦Maternal education or education of other household members and child nutritional status in Peru and
Vietnam
✦The impact of reproductive and child health policies on maternal and child health in Andhra Pradesh,
India
✦Shocks and child health in DaNang, Vietnam: a qualitative and quantitative study
✦Food security and nutrition transitions in Peru
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The Young Lives Health Group is currently working on the following projects:
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✦Maternal education or education of other household members and child nutritional status in Peru and
Vietnam
✦The impact of reproductive and child health policies on maternal and child health in Andhra Pradesh,
India
✦Shocks and child health in DaNang, Vietnam: a qualitative and quantitative study
✦Food security and nutrition transitions in Peru
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The Young Lives Health Group is currently working on the following projects:
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✦The impact of reproductive and child health policies on maternal and child health in Andhra Pradesh,
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✦Shocks and child health in DaNang, Vietnam: a qualitative and quantitative study
✦Food security and nutrition transitions in Peru
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The Young Lives Health Group is currently working on the following projects:
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✦Shocks and child health in DaNang, Vietnam: a qualitative and quantitative study
✦Food security and nutrition transitions in Peru
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The Young Lives Health Group is currently working on the following projects:
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✦Maternal education or education of other household members and child nutritional status in Peru and
Vietnam
✦The impact of reproductive and child health policies on maternal and child health in Andhra Pradesh,
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✦Food security and nutrition transitions in Peru
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The Young Lives Health Group is currently working on the following projects:
✦Food security and nutrition transitions in Peru
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✦Economic status and health outcomes
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Vietnam
✦The impact of reproductive and child health policies on maternal and child health in Andhra Pradesh,
India
✦Shocks and child health in DaNang, Vietnam: a qualitative and quantitative study
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For more information, please contact Proochista Ariana.