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Frank de Vocht is a Professor in Epidemiology and Public Health, and joined the Centre for Public Health, which is part of Population Health Sciences at Bristol Medical School in 2014. He is funded by the NIHR School for Public Health Research and NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West (ARC West).
He obtained his PhD from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and subsequently worked at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, and the Centre for Epidemiology/Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Manchester, before coming to Bristol.
He has over 120 peer-review publications broadly covering the areas of public health, exposure measurements and assessment, and radiation, environmental and occupational epidemiology. He has contributed to book chapters on epidemiology, exposure assessment and the effects of electromagnetic fields on humans. His work is funded by NIHR, the European Union and several charities, and he specializes in epidemiology of lifestyle, environmental, and occupational risk factors. His current research interests are two-fold: the evaluation of natural experiments in public health, specifically in the context of alcohol policies, and secondly the effects of ionising and non-ionizing radiation on human health.
Frank de Vocht is a Committee Member of the UK Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE) and of the EMF Committee of the Health Council of the Netherlands (Gezondheidsraad).
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Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on the physical activity of Year 6 children and their parents: Identifying scalable actions to mitigate adverse impacts and provide rapid evidence to policy makers
Jago, R., Hollingworth, W., Foster, C. E. M., de Vocht , F., Williams, J., Tibbitts, B. P., Salway, R. E. & Collison, L. G.
1/04/21 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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MaxWELL: Maximising Wellbeing Living Everyday Life with Long-term conditions
Mann, C. L., Johnson, R. A., Ridd, M. J., Salisbury, C., Barnes, R., Horwood, J., de Vocht , F. & McLeod, H. S. T.
1/01/19 → …
Project: Research
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Unity Sexual Health rapid STI testing, diagnostic and treatment service evaluation
Horner, P. J., de Vocht , F., Redaniel, M. T., Jackson, J. & Walter, S. R.
1/10/17 → 30/09/21
Project: Research
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Accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time among children and their parents in the UK before and after COVID-19 lockdowns: a natural experiment
Salway, R. E., Foster, C. E. M., de Vocht, F., Tibbitts, B. P., Collison, L. G., House, D. R., Williams, J. G., Breheny, K., Reid, T., Walker, R., Churchward, S., Hollingworth, W. & Jago, R., 16 May 2022, In: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 19, 1, 14 p., 51.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Changes in household food and drink purchases following restrictions on the advertisement of high fat, salt, and sugar products across the Transport for London network: A controlled interrupted time series analysis
Yau, A., Berger, N., Law, C., Cornelsen, L., Greener, R., Adams, J., Boyland, E. J., Burgoine, T., de Vocht, F., Egan, M., Er, V., Lake, A. A., Lock, K., Mytton, O., Petticrew, M., Thompson, C., White, M. & Cummins, S., 17 Feb 2022, In: PLoS Medicine. 19, 2, 23 p., e1003915.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Exploring the potential of a school-based online health and wellbeing screening tool: professional stakeholders' perspectives and experiences
Woodrow, N., Fairbrother, H., Breheny, K., d'Apice, K., Albers, P. N., Mills, C., Curtis, M., Hopkins, L., Tebbett, S., Campbell, R. & De Vocht, F., 16 Feb 2022, In: BMC Public Health. 22, 1, 14 p., 324.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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