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Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care

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Nehla Djellouli

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My PhD: Title 'Developing the ways the public is involved in decisions to change health services at a large-scale'

Supervisors: Prof. Sandy Oliver, Dr. Lorelei Jones, Dr. Helen Barratt, Dr. Angus Ramsay & Steven Towndrow

Lay summary:To tackle the challenge of meeting rising needs for healthcare with decreased financial resources, health services have been reconfigured at a large-scale affecting multiple organisations and care providers. These changes have increasingly become associated with making cuts, downgrading and closing services, causing strong public opposition. Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in decision-making is promoted as a way to lessen tensions and conflicts around the change, yet PPI is often treated as a simple checkbox exercise. This PhD research, through a scoping review and qualitative case studies, explores how PPI is conducted in the controversial context of large-scale change to health services and seeks ways PPI can become a meaningful exercise.

Qualifications

 

MSc Global Health, Maastricht University (Netherlands)

BSc Biomedical Science, Middlesex University (UK)

 

Awards

 

Improvement Science PhD Fellowship, Health Foundation

 

Publications

Djellouli N, Mann S, Nambiar B, et al. Improving postpartum care delivery and uptake by implementing context-specific interventions in four countries in Africa: a realist evaluation of the Missed Opportunities in Maternal and Infant Health (MOMI) project. BMJ Global Health 2017;2:e000408.

Djellouli N, Quevedo-Gomez MC. Challenges to successful implementation of HIV and AIDS-related health policies in Cartagena, Colombia. Social Science and Medicine 2015; 133, 36-44.

 

Contact details  n.djellouli@ucl.ac.uk

@NehlaDjellouli