Our Work
The research group has attained an international reputation for research into SRH care and policy.
Research into the effectiveness of screening for genital chlamydia infection directly informed EU policy on chlamydia control, national (NICE) guidance on reducing sexually transmitted infections and the direction of the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) in England. Review of the evidence linking alcohol and sexual ill health for the Royal College of Physicians report (2011) that is cited in the UK Alcohol Strategy (2012) and has changed clinical practice by introducing brief alcohol screening into sexual health services. Our model of a life course approach to women’s health was adopted nationally as the cornerstone of the RCOG’s twin reports on the future of Women's Health Care (2011) & Specialist Training (2012), implemented as an award-winning community gynaecology & sexual health service in London (2011) and has informed UNFPA policy in Europe (2015).
Our research into preconception health and care, the need to consider the spectrum of Pregnancy Planning, Preparation and Prevention (Hall 2015) gave rise to a chapter in the Chief Medical Officer’s Annual Review of Women’s Health (2014), an invited series of papers for Lancet on this topic and to working with Public Health England on making the case for preconception care. The NIHR Themed Review ‘Better Beginnings – Improving Health for Pregnancy’ (2017) also highlights our research in this area.-
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