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Three Policy Fellows were embedded within the RiR programme in 2022 to 2023
Dr Louise Choo
Fellowship: Ethnic disparities in access to preventative services (e.g. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) health checks, screening) in London using integrated routine datasets
Louise's project focused on maternity weight services and resulted in a wish list of priorities with OHID. She also contributed to CVD data summary discussions & worked with OHID analysts to look at summarising some of this data. As a follow up, further links have been created between OHID and UCL partners around GP records and cardiovascular disease, supporting OHID to do the analysis but in a different way.
Output: Adult Weight Management Report by Dr Florence Sheen with contributions by Dr Louise Choo (not publicly available).
Dr Matthew Jay
Senior Data Scientist in Public Health
Population, Policy & Practice Deptartment
Matthew is epidemiologist with a background in law and a proponent of developing a new public health approach to law and legal epidemiology, in which law is treated as a set of upstream and downstream variables relevant to health. In January 2025, he commenced a Wellcome Trust Early-Career Award examining the health of parents involved in public and private family court proceedings. Jay’s UCL Profile.
Fellowship: Understanding the implementation of Family Hubs in London (co-lead with Claire Powell)
As part of their residency, Matthew and Jay spoke with Local Authorities (LA) on different family hub journeys about the barriers they faced. From this, Jay and Powell identified that hyper-local and granular data was needed to help LAs distribute funding effectively and better understand the outcomes of family hubs.
Robert Pears, Consultant in Public Health, OHID, commented that their work on family hubs has imbued confidence on the topic and “will shape the strategic direction in public health for years to come.”
Output:
- Matthew Jay and Clare Powell: Report ‘OHID-UCL Family Hub consultation project’ under the CPRU website
Claire Powell
Senior Research Fellow in Qualitative Methods for Child Health, Population, Policy & Practice Department
NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit
Claire is a qualitative applied health researcher with a focus on families living in adversity and the services they might access. Previous work has involved mothers in prison, mothers with perinatal mental health problems, and adult survivors of child maltreatment and domestic abuse, as well as health and social care professionals. She has experience in a range of methods including qualitative, consensus, and evidence review. She is interested in how health policy and practice can be improved to reach more families and avoid causing harm, particularly for survivors of violence and abuse.
Fellowship: Understanding the implementation of Family Hubs in London (co-lead with Claire Powell)
As part of their residency, Matthew and Jay spoke with Local Authorities (LA) on different family hub journeys about the barriers they faced. From this, Jay and Powell identified that hyper-local and granular data was needed to help LAs distribute funding effectively and better understand the outcomes of family hubs.
Robert Pears, Consultant in Public Health, OHID, commented that their work on family hubs has imbued confidence on the topic and “will shape the strategic direction in public health for years to come.”
Output:
- Matthew Jay and Clare Powell: Report ‘OHID-UCL Family Hub consultation project’ under the CPRU website
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