The UCL Excellence in Health of the Public Research Prize

A competition to recognise excellent peer-reviewed, published, original research that aims to improve the health of the public.

The UCL Excellence in Health of the Public Research Prize is a competition to recognise excellent peer-reviewed, published, original research that aims to improve the health of the public.

Prize winners receive a substantial award that they can use as appropriate to support their research or career development, and will be invited to present their winning paper at a future Health of the Public Symposium.

We are delighted to announce the 2022 prize winners are:

2022 Winners

Winner: Dr Holly Walton (Research fellow, Department of Applied Health Research, Faculty of Population Health Sciences) for her paper: "Development of models of care coordination for rare conditions: A qualitative study"

Winner: Dr Joseph Ward (NIHR Clinical Lecturer, Population Policy and Practice, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health) for his paper: "Risk factors for PICU admission and death among children and young people hospitalized with COVID-19 and PIMS-TS in England during the first pandemic year."

Runner up: Tom Norris (Research Fellow in Epidemiology, Department of Targeted Intervention) for his paper: "Obesity in early adulthood and physical functioning in mid-life: Investigating the mediating role of c-reactive protein".

Runner up: Dr Naaheed Mukadam (Alzheimer’s Society Senior Research Fellow, Division of Psychiatry) for her paper: "Effective interventions for potentially modifiable risk factors for late-onset dementia: a costs and cost-effectiveness modelling study."

Previous Winners

2019

Winner: Dr Paulo Rui Anciaes (Research Associate, Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering), for his paper entitled: "Perceptions of road traffic conditions along with their reported impacts on walking are associated with wellbeing."

Runner up: Dr Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo (Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, SHS Faculty Office, Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences), for her paper entitled: "Income inequality and cardiovascular disease risk factors in a highly unequal country: a fixed-effects analysis from South Africa"

2018

Winner: Briony Hudson (Research Associate, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, UCL and Pathways), for her paper "Challenges to discussing palliative care with people experiencing homelessness: a qualitative study".

Runner up: Sara Ahmadi-Abhari (Post-doctoral Research Associate, UCL Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health), for her paper "Temporal trend in dementia incidence since 2002 and projections for prevalence in England and Wales to 2040: modelling study".

2017

Winner: Dr Robert Aldridge, (Academic Clinical Lecturer, UCL Institute of Health Informatics), for his paper "Tuberculosis in migrants moving from high-incidence to low-incidence countries: a population-based cohort study of 519 955 migrants screened before entry to England, Wales, and Northern Ireland".

Runners up: Annie Herbert (Research Associate in Medical Statistics, UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Public Health) and Dr Annapoorna Kuppuswamy (Senior Research Fellow, UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences) were joint runners up.

Annie's paper: "10-y Risks of Death and Emergency Re-admission in Adolescents Hospitalised with Violent, Drug- or Alcohol-Related, or Self-Inflicted Injury: A Population-Based Cohort Study".

Annapoorna's paper: "Post-stroke fatigue: a deficit in corticomotor excitability?"

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358600284_Development_of_models_of_care_coordination_for_rare_conditions_a_qualitative_study