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Miss Rebecca Knowles

Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Public Health & Policy

United Kingdom

Becky is a part-time Research Degree student, supervised by Professor Nicholas Mays, Professor Clare Chandler and Dr Stephen O'Neill.

For her PhD, she is evaluating strategies aimed at improving antibiotic use in the UK. She has worked at WHO, in the NHS, at Oxford University, the Wellcome Trust and in UK Government.

Becky completed her undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at Durham University (specifically in biology, geography and anthropology), followed by an MSc in Global Health Sciences and Epidemiology at Oxford University.

Affiliations

Department of Health Services Research and Policy
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Research

Research Area
Infectious disease policy
Health care policy
Public health
Evaluation

Selected Publications

A systematic review of national interventions and policies to optimize antibiotic use in healthcare settings in England.
KNOWLES, R; CHANDLER, C; O'NEILL, S; Sharland, M; MAYS, N;
2024
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Designing and Evaluating Complex One Health Interventions: An International Workshop
ITANI, D; Singh, C; KNOWLES, R; Myers, J; GAUTHAM, M;
2023
Designing and Evaluating Complex One Health Interventions
The current landscape of software tools for the climate-sensitive infectious disease modelling community.
Ryan, SJ; Lippi, CA; Caplan, T; Diaz, A; Dunbar, W; Grover, S; Johnson, S; KNOWLES, R; LOWE, R; Mateen, BA; Thomson, MC; Stewart-Ibarra, AM;
2023
The Lancet. Planetary health
Associations of Skeletal Muscle Mass and Fat Mass With Incident Cardiovascular Disease and All-Cause Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study of UK Biobank Participants.
KNOWLES, R; Carter, J; Jebb, SA; Bennett, D; Lewington, S; Piernas, C;
2021
Journal of the American Heart Association
We need to talk about the lack of investment in digital research infrastructure.
KNOWLES, R; Mateen, BA; Yehudi, Y;
2021
Nature computational science
Measuring antibiotic availability and use in 20 low- and middle-income countries.
KNOWLES, R; Sharland, M; Hsia, Y; Magrini, N; Moja, L; Siyam, A; Tayler, E;
2020
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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