Public Health

Research

BUILDING A HEALTHIER SOCIETY IN BIRMINGHAM AND BEYOND

The goals of the public health research centre are to prevent disease and optimise health and quality of life across communities. We are building innovative interventions to reduce health disparity and optimise societies health locally and globally. We aim to develop inclusive health research partnerships including communities, NHS, and diverse health workforce.

Multiple Long-Term Conditions Lifestyle Prevention

  • We are investigating disease determinants, using biological foundations and disease epi-data, as well as researching lifestyle determinants: sedentariness, physical activity, nutrition, psycho-social behaviours.

  • Our work focuses on lifestyle, medicine and interventions, investigating obesity, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. We investigate the multi-components of diet, nutrition, sleep, exercise and physical activity, researching children and adolescents with obesity, older adults with diabetes and hypertension, kidney disease complications.

  • We investigate ageing and longevity on a molecular level, to whole body physiology. Our research looks at personalised nutrition, the effectiveness of diet and supplements in ageing and longevity. We are using applied health interventions in special groups: older individuals' physical and mental health, postmenopausal women, children and adolescents with obesity-comorbidities, young adults and minority ethnicities.

Reducing health disparity and inequalities

Minority ethnicities health equity and quality of life

We are reviewing physical activity and lifestyle behaviours (inter and intra-ethnicity differences) and working with vulnerable and minority ethnicities in West Midlands (such as women with type 2 diabetes and children with obesity co-morbidities).

Empowerment and co-production

We are creating innovative co-production models in minority ethnicity communities. Investigating self-care in diabetes and associated diseases and developing PPI and multi-stakeholders for PH interventions.

Reducing Global Health Disparities

We are researching childhood obesity and co-morbidities in HICs and LMICs and creating new global guidelines on prevention and management of obesity co-morbidities in minority ethnicity populations. Our work aims to reduce global health disparities, implementation science in Low and Middle-Income Countries.

Centre Team

Dr Ayaz Safi, Dr Hora EjtehadiDr Muhammad Hossain, Dr Olatunde AremuDr Ferozkhan JadhakhanDr Bismillah Sehar, Dr Basiru GaiDr Masoud MohammadnezhadDr Nasrin SoltaniDr Kal Alnababatah.

Membership is open for registration from staff and postgraduate students. Please contact Public Health Cluster lead, Professor Ahmad Alkhatib.