Mark Petticrew BA PhD

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Background

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 recently 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/).

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 involved in the Public Health Research Consortium, which is funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme; see: http://www.york.ac.uk/phrc/

Selected publications

• Ogilvie, D.; Fayter, D.; Petticrew, M.; Sowden, A.; Thomas, S.; Whitehead, M.; Worthy, G. The harvest plot: A method for synthesising evidence about the differential effects of interventions Bmc Medical Research Methodology, 2008; 8
• Thomas, S.; Fayter, D.; Misso, K.; Ogilvie, D.; Petticrew, M.; Sowden, A.; Whitehead, M.; Worthy, G. Population tobacco control interventions and their effects on social inequalities in smoking: systematic review Tobacco Control, 2008; 17(4):230-7
• Petticrew, M.; Cummins, S.; Ferrell, C.; Findlay, A.; Higgins, C.; Hoy, C.; Kearns, A.; Sparks, L. Natural experiments: an underused tool for public health? Public Health, 2005; 119(9):751-7
• Petticrew, M.; Whitehead, M.; MacIntyre, S.J.; Graham, H.; Egan, M. Evidence for public health policy on inequalities: 1: the reality according to policymakers Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2004; 58(10):811-6
• Whitehead, M.; Petticrew, M.; Graham, H.; MacIntyre, S.J.; Bambra, C.; Egan, M. Evidence for public health policy on inequalities: 2: assembling the evidence jigsaw Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2004; 58(10):817-21
• Petticrew, M.; Egan, M.; Thomson, H.; Hamilton, V.; Kunkler, R.; Roberts, H.; Publication bias in qualitative research: what becomes of qualitative research presented at conferences? J Epidemiol Community Health, 2008; 62(6):552-4
• Thomson, H; Sellstropm, E; Thomas, S; Petticrew, M.; The health impacts of housing improvement: a systematic review of intervention studies (1887-2007). American Journal of Public Health, In Press;

Full publications listing (since 2001)