Mark Petticrew BA PhD

Professor of Public Health Evaluation

My main research interests are in evidence-based policymaking, systematic reviews, and the evaluation of the health effects of social policies. I am an editor of the new Cochrane Public Health Review Group, and am closely involved in the Cochrane/Campbell Health Equity Field. I have co-authored a book which among other things aims to provide guidance on how to do systematic reviews in public health:

Petticrew M, Roberts H (2006) Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences: A practical guide. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

I am an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne School of Population Health: http://www.sph.unimelb.edu.au/, and an Honorary Researcher at the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow (http://www.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk/).

Affiliation

Teaching

I currently teach on the MSc Public Health (Health Promotion Stream), and co-organise the Health Promotion Approaches and Methods module.

Research

Current research involves systematic reviews in the areas of tobacco control, housing and regeneration, and employment policy, and primary research on the health impacts of investment in social housing in the UK. I am involved in systematic reviews carried out as part of the Campbell Collaboration and the Cochrane Collaboration, and am Director of the Public Health Research Consortium, which is funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme; see: http://www.york.ac.uk/phrc/

Research areas

  • Complex interventions
  • Health inequalities
  • Public health
  • Research : policy relationship
  • Systematic reviews

Disciplines

  • Epidemiology
  • Policy analysis
  • Psychology

Other interests

  • MARCH
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