Contributors

Short biographies of each of the trainees presenting at the mini-conference are given below.  To contact anyone on this list please see the About page, or to read more about the presentations given on the day please see the Abstracts.

Jump to: Olaperi Aghadiuno | Ravi Balakrishnan | Sanhita Chakrabarti | Anand Fernandes | Uy Hoang | Jharna Kumbang | Deborah Manger | Kelechi Nnoaham | Karthik Paranthaman | Tom Porter | Kriel Ramcharitar | Kathleen Skinner | Douglas West

Olaperi Aghadiuno (Back to top)

Joined training scheme

FTSTA position in public health from 5th November 2007 to 4th November 2008.

Significant public health work

• Health needs assessment on alcohol misuse in Wandsworth
• Health equity audit of the stop smoking service of Wandsworth tPCT
• Guidelines for the management of hepatitis B positive pregnant women in Wandsworth
• Presentation to the SW London Cancer Network Board on tobacco control activities across South West London PCTs
• Evidence reviews on several topics including: homeopathy, capillary cholesterol sampling, stereotactic surgery and inpatient management of weight loss prior to surgery
  

Career aspiration

To become a public health consultant with a special interest in evidence based medicine/sexual health

Ravi Balakrishnan (Back to top)

Joined training scheme

August 2005

Public health work of note

• Health needs assessment for people with diabetes
• Health needs assessment for people who misuse alcohol
• Health equity audit of MMR and preschool booster
• Providing data for practice-based commissioning
• Confidential enquiry in to deaths in a Nursing Home
• Audit of cervical cancer screening provision in GP Surgeries
• Burden of illness related to smoking and alcohol
• BCG immunisation uptake audit selective vs universal
• Health effects of long term exposure to high levels of natural radiation

Sanhita Chakrabarti (Back to top)

After graduating from Calcutta University in India in 1992, Sanhita undertook a year of house officer jobs in Obstetrics and Gynaecology before proceeding to the United Kingdom to pursue higher studies. Sanhita has worked and trained as a gynaecologist within the NHS before joining the training programme for Public health in 2004. Sanhita has successfully acquired membership of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Membership of the Faculty of Public Health. Sanhita is currently in the last phase of training in Public Health.

Anand Fernandes (Back to top)

Joined training scheme

January 2004

Public health work of note

• CHD health equity audit
• Musculoskeletal service demand management
• Prison health needs assessment
• Sexual health strategy

Career interests/aspirations

Health protection and community health medicine in developing countries

Uy Hoang (Back to top)

Uy Hoang is currently the Walport Academic Fellow in Public Health at the University of Oxford and Specialist Registrar in Public Health at Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust. His area of interest spans the intersection between mental health and public health with a focus on inequalities in mental health and the mental health issues for refugee populations. He has worked as both a psychiatrist and public health specialist and holds a medical degree from the University of London and an MPH (Master of Public Health) from Yale University.

Jharna Kumbang (Back to top)

Joined training scheme

January 2005

Major pieces of public health work

• Evaluation of a Welfare Benefits Advice Service
• Flu coordinator
• Needs assessment of alcohol services
• Mapping of services for people with long term conditions
• A survey on “Specialist management of GP referral letters – do all need to result in an outpatient attendance?”
• Communicable disease burden among homeless people
• Audit of haemoglobinopathy screening
• Focus group discussion to identify the reasons for non-urgent visits to A&E
• Sustainability appraisal (SA) and Equality Impact assessment (EqIA) for “The South of England Health Strategy”
• Review of literature on “Are people with severe mental illness at higher risk for developing cardiovascular disease?”
• Contributed to “Health Profile of England”

Career aim

Continue to work in Public Health either as CCDC or Consultant in Public Health

Deborah Manger (Back to top)

Joined training scheme

January 2006

Major pieces of public health work

• Oral health needs assessment of the dependent elderly in Northamptonshire
• LPSA project Milton Keynes
• Service review of the Buckinghamshire Priority Dental Service (BPDS)
• Service level agreement for the BPDS
• Developed website regarding NHS dental care in MK (MK PCT)
• Reviewed the provision of minor oral surgery (MOS) in the primary care setting in MK and Northamptonshire
• Developed a service specification for the delivery of specialist MOS in a primary care setting
• Co-ordinate the activity in Northamptonshire associated with the national school dental survey and the final report

Career interests

Needs based commissioning

Kelechi Nnoaham (Back to top)

4th year Specialist Registrar in Public Health, currently on academic secondment to Oxford University and registered on a DPhil in Public Health. Recently designed mathematical model to predict volume and cost implications of bowel cancer screening in five South Central PCTs and worked with GPs in Oxfordshire to design and adopt annual health check templates for people with learning disability. Also recently reviewed, for Oxfordshire County Council, the transition strategy for people with learning disability and challenging behaviour. Career interests lie at the interface of local public health service and academic public health. Publications of note relate to vitamin D, tuberculosis and hand-washing.

Karthik Paranthaman (Back to top)

Joined training scheme

August 2005

Public health work of note

• Health needs assessment for people with diabetes in Oxfordshire (ongoing) 
• Review of policy for Gender dysphoria in Thames Valley
• Pandemic flu planning in Oxfordshire
• Factors influencing adherence to ART in children with HIV in South India
• Analysis of Admissions to the Medical Assessment Unit in Horton Hospital, Banbury

Career interests

Work towards a career in health protection with an interest in applied research.

Tom Porter (Back to top)

Joined training scheme

February 2005

Public health work of note

• Health needs assessment for young offenders
• Smoking cessation health equity audit
• Flu pandemic planning at regional level
• Providing data for practice-based commissioning
• Assessing barriers to chronic illness in coastal Kenya
• Joint strategic needs assessment
• Setting up a network of public health commissioners

Career interests/aspirations

Local public health work in the UK, combined with an interest in the application of mobile telephony to public health in developing countries

Other notes

Runs an independent website on public health training, Public Healthy. Organised and ran the first Oxford PH mini-conference in April 2008.

Kriel Ramcharitar (Back to top)

Joined training programme

August 2005

Major pieces of public health work

• Coronary heart disease health equity audit
• African Caribbean Hypertension Project (Health Promotion initiative)
•  How should acute chest pain be assessed in accident and emergency departments? A Literature Review
• Health Needs Assessment of Drug Misuse across Berkshire East

Current work

Currently doing a teaching fellowship at Department of Public Health, University of Oxford. Current work includes re-design of public health Day 6 medical undergraduate session. Also presently enrolled on PG Dip in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Oxford Learning Institute, University of Oxford).

Interests

International Public Health; Medical Education.

Kathleen Skinner (Back to top)

Joined training scheme

January 2004 (part-time)

Public health work of note

• Flu pandemic planning
• Updating healthy lifestyles survey toolkit
• Joint strategic needs assessment whilst working with the local authority
• Wrote an OXFAM manual “Mainstreaming HIV Prevention in Humanitarian Emergencies”
• Contributed an immunisation chapter to the MRCPCH Mastercourse

Career interests/aspirations

• Child Public Health
• International Public Health
• Making robust evidence based health care easy to use and to put this in the hands of the consumer
• Using the internet for health research

Douglas West (Back to top)

Background

B.Sc. (Hons.) Genetics, Ph.D., CBiol MIBiol

Joined training scheme

April 2006

Public Health work of note

• Publication of two census bulletins describing aspects of the population of West Sussex.
• Publication of two healthy lifestyle magazines for young people in Milton Keynes.
• Co-ordinated production of the 2006 Director of Public Health Annual Report, Milton Keynes PCT.
• Co-ordinated the 2006/07 Seasonal Influenza Immunisation Programme and the 2006/07 and 2007/08 Poultry Worker Influenza Immunisation Programme for Milton Keynes PCT.
• Pandemic influenza planning.
• Evaluation of the Active Milton Keynes Exercise Referral Scheme.
• Developed summary papers related to the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review - Public Service Agreements and National Indicator set.
• Viral Hepatitis Needs Assessment, Milton Keynes PCT

Public Health interest

• Service public health
• International public health
• Infectious diseases and emergency planning
• Child health
• Genetics

Public Health training placements undertaken

• Milton Keynes PCT
• Thames Valley Health Protection Unit

Other notes

Faculty of Public Health Trainee Members Committee - representative for Oxford Deanery.

 

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