Professor Andy Haines MBBS MD FRCGP FFPHM FRCP FMedSci

Professor of Public Health & Primary Care

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I am Professor of Public Health and Primary Care with a joint appointment in the Dept of Social and Environmental Health Research and in the Dept of Population Health. I  was previously Director (originally Dean) of LSHTM for nearly 10 years up to October 2010, having previously been Professor of Primary Health Care at UCL between 1987-2000. I worked part-time as a general practitioner in North London for many years.

Between 1993-6 I was on secondment as Director of Research & Development at the NHS Executive, North Thames and I was consultant epidemiologist at  the MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit between 1980-7.  I have also worked internationally in Nepal, Jamaica, Canada and the USA.

I have been a member of a number of major international and national committees including the MRC Global Health Group ( chair) and the MRC Strategy Group. I was formerly chair of the Universities UK Health and Social Care Policy Committee and a member of the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research. I was a member of Working Group 2 of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the second and third assessment reports and I am currently review editor of the health chapter fifth report.

Affiliation

• Department of Social and Environmental Health Research
• Department of Population Health

Teaching

I lecture on the Public Health lecture series and on PHDC as well as on a number of other courses.

Research

My research interests are in epidemiology and health services research focussing particularly on research in primary care and the study of environmental influences on health, including the potential effects of climate change and the health co-benefits of the low carbon economy. Previous research includes a number of randomised trials evaluating interventions to change patient and practitioner behaviour and the impact of information and communications technology on primary care. I am also interested in how health systems issues affect the scaling up of primary health care programmes. As chair of an international task force on developing guidance for health system strengthening I have recently co-authored a series of articles on the challenges of assessing evidence for health systems policies and developing guidance for policymakers.

I also chaired an international task force on climate change mitigation and public health which published a series of articles in the Lancet in 2009. My current research includes the study of the health co-benefits and economic impacts of low carbon policies in the transport, food and agriculture and housing sectors.

 

• Selected publications

• Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: assessing how much confidence to place in the research evidence.

  Lewin, S. ; Bosch-Capblanch, X. ; Oliver, S. ; Akl, E.A. ; Vist, G.E. ; Lavis, J.N. ; Ghersi, D. ; Røttingen, J.A. ; Steinmann, P. ; Gulmezoglu, M. ; Tugwell, P. ; El-Jardali, F. ; Haines, A. ;

  PLoS Med, 2012; 9(3):e1001187

• Effect of increasing active travel in urban England and Wales on costs to the National Health Service.

  Jarrett, J. ; Woodcock, J. ; Griffiths, U.K. ; Chalabi, Z. ; Edwards, P. ; Roberts, I. ; Haines, A. ;

  Lancet, 2012; 379(9832):2198-205

• Short term effects of temperature on risk of myocardial infarction in England and Wales: time series regression analysis of the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) registry.

  Bhaskaran, K.; Hajat, S.; Haines, A.; Herrett, E.; Wilkinson, P.; Smeeth, L.;

  BMJ, 2010; 341:c3823

• Economic evaluation of arthritis self management in primary care.

  Patel, A.; Buszewicz, M.; Beecham, J.; Griffin, M.; Rait, G.; Nazareth, I.; Atkinson, A.; Barlow, J.; Haines, A.;

  BMJ, 2009; 339:b3532

• Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: household energy.

  Wilkinson, P.; Smith, K.R.; Davies, M.; Adair, H.; Armstrong, B.G.; Barrett, M.; Bruce, N.; Haines, A.; Hamilton, I.; Oreszczyn, T.; Ridley, I.; Tonne, C.; Chalabi, Z.;

  Lancet, 2009; 374(9705):1917-29

• Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport.

  Woodcock, J.; Edwards, P.; Tonne, C.; Armstrong, B.G.; Ashiru, O.; Banister, D.; Beevers, S.; Chalabi, Z.; Chowdhury, Z.; Cohen, A.; Franco, O.H.; Haines, A.; Hickman, R.; Lindsay, G.; Mittal, I.; Mohan, D.; Tiwari, G.; Woodward, A.; Roberts, I.;

  Lancet, 2009; 374(9705):1930-43

• Health and Climate Change 6 Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: overview and implications for policy makers

  Haines, A.; McMichael, A.J.; Smith, K.R.; Roberts, I.; Woodcock, J.; Markandya, A.; Armstrong, B.G.; Campbell-Lendrum, D.; Dangour, A.D.; Davies, M.; Bruce, N.; Tonne, C.; Barrett, M.; Wilkinson, P.

  Lancet, 2009; 374(9707):2104-2114

• Supporting the delivery of cost-effective interventions in primary health-care systems in low-income and middle-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews.

  Lewin, S.; Lavis, J.N.; Oxman, A.D.; Bastías, G.; Chopra, M.; Ciapponi, A.; Flottorp, S.; Martí, S.G.; Pantoja, T.; Rada, G.; Souza, N.; Treweek, S.; Wiysonge, C.S.; Haines, A.;

  Lancet, 2008; 372(9642):928-39

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