UCL DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH
HEALTH BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH CENTRE
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DR GEMMA VART
Research Associate

EXPERTISE
Factors affecting the decision to participate in bowel cancer screening

RESEARCH
Research interests
  • Psychosocial determinants of bowel cancer screening participation
  • Health inequalities
  • Health literacy
Current research
  • The ASCEND project: Strategies to reduce the social gradient in bowel cancer screening
  • FIT for Follow-up study: Psychological impact of faecal immunochemical testing for bowel cancer surveillance
BIOGRAPHY
Appointments
2010 - present Research Associate, UCL Epidemiology & Public Health
2006 - 2010 Hub Screening Assistant, NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme,
          Postgraduate Medical School, University of Surrey
2006 - Research Officer, Department of Psychology, University of Surrey

Qualifications
2010 PhD Health Psychology, University of Surrey
2005 MSc Health Psychology, University of Surrey
1999 BSc (Hons) Behavioural Sciences, University of Glamorgan

Other
British Psychological Society: Division of Health Psychology, Chartered Psychologist (Health Psychology)

PUBLICATIONS
Vart, G. (submitted 2010) Evaluation of personal experiences of faecal occult blood testing

Vart, G. (2010) How men differ from women in their attitudes towards bowel cancer screening and intention to be screened. Journal of Men's Health, 7(3), 241-248.

Cropley, M., Theadom, A., Pravettoni, G. and Webb, G. (2008) The effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions prior to surgery: a systematic review. Nicotine & tobacco research: official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 10(3), 407-12.


This page last modified 18 Aug, 2011 by Mark Livermore

Dr Gemma Vart
CONTACT DETAILS
Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7679 8268
Internal: x48268
Fax:
+44 (0)20 7813 2848
Email: g.vart@ucl.ac.uk

Postal address: Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health,
UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

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1-19 Torrington Place,
WC1E 7HB

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