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Jeremy is Professor of Social Sciences and Applied Health Research at The Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol Medical School. He is Intervention Optimisation and Implementation Theme Lead for NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) in Behavioural Science and Evaluation. He co-leads the Behavioural and Qualitative Science Team for National Institute for Health Research Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Research Collaboration West (NIHR ARC West). His is also co-director of the Sexual Health Improvement Programme (SHIP) Health Intergration Team.
Jeremy is a social scientist with a background in psychology. He uses a range of qualitative and mixed method approaches in the development and evaluation of complex interventions/health services. He has an interest in developing pragmatic and collaborative intensive qualitative methods to support more effective implementation of healthcare innovation. He has expertise in the integration of qualitative methods with randomised controlled trials to improve their design and conduct. Jeremy co-convene the EQUATe: ‘Excellence in QUAlitative research in Trials’ research group.
His research interests including users' experience of health and health services, acceptability of clinical interventions, clinical decision-making, infectious diseases, primary care, public health, sexual health and digital health.
He is currently responsible for the qualitative evaluation for a number of NIHR funded trials:
- Germ Defence national implementation trial to improve household infection control during the COVID-19 pandemic
- EPIToPe - Evaluating the Population Impact of Hepatitis C Direct Acting Antiviral Treatment as Prevention for People Who Inject Drugs
- ADEPT - Guided Self-Help for Depression in adults with Autism: A feasibility RCT
- CHICO - The CHIldren with COugh Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
- HepCATT - Evaluation of interventions designed to increase diagnosis and treatment of patients with Hepatitis C virus infection in primary care
- REST - Immediate Oral, Immediate Topical or Delayed Oral Antibiotics for Acute Otitis Media with Discharge: The Runny Ear Study
In addition, He is Principal Investigator/qualitative lead for a number of applied health research projects:
- Common Ambition Bristol - Co-producing Sexual Health services with African & Caribbean heritage communities
- RAPCI - Rapid COVID-19 intelligence to improve primary care response
- DECODE - unexpecteD consEquenCes Of Digital hEalth
- Evaluation of online consultations in primary care
- Evaluating a new digital solution for secondary mental health care
- CHOP - Challenges and opportunities of PrEP
- Sexual health rapid results service
- Sexually transmitted infections management in primary care
- Using sexual health services to support people who have experienced domestic violence and abuse
- Community pharmacist intervention development to support women who have experienced domestic violence and abuse
- Intervention development to reducing drug use in female street sex workers
- Telephone outreach to enhance uptake of NHS health checks in more deprived communities
- Managing symptoms of fibromyalgia in primary care
- Evaluation of a chronic pain peer support network
Jeremy has been involved in successful grant applications from the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), including NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR); NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme and NIHR School for Primary Care Research and also Medical Research Council (MRC), Public Health England, The Health Foundation, The Royal College of General Practitioners and charities.
Teaching leadership:
Joint Helical Theme Lead for Behavioural and Social Science in Medicine - MB21 Undergraduate Medical Curriculum.
Deputy Director - Bristol Medical School Short Course Programme in Population Health Sciences
External positions
Co-Director, Sexual Health Improvement Programme (SHIP) Health Integration Team
1 Jul 2021 → …
Trustee, Brigstowe
1 Feb 2019 → …
Associate Editor, British Journal of Health Psychology
1 May 2016 → …
Structured keywords and research groupings
- Centre for Academic Primary Care
- BRTC
- NIHR ARC West
Keywords
- Qualitative
- Ethnography
- randomised controlled trials
- complex intervention
- NIHR ARC West
- sexual health
- Public Health
- Primary care
- NIHR HPRU in Behavioural Science and Evaluation
- Health services research
- HIV
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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MaxWELL: Maximising Wellbeing Living Everyday Life with Long-term conditions
Mann, C. L., Johnson, R., 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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DECODE: unexpecteD consEquenCes Of Digital hEalth
Horwood, J., Farr, M. C., Banks, J. P., Yardley, L., Turner, A. J. & Feder, G. S.
1/05/18 → 31/03/20
Project: Research
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Advertisement of unhealthy commodities in Bristol and South Gloucestershire and rationale for a new advertisement policy
Scott, L. J., Nobles, J., Sillero Rejon, C., Brockman, R., Toumpakari, Z., Jago, R., Cummins, S., Blake, S., Horwood, J. & de Vocht, F., 5 Jun 2023, In: BMC Public Health. 23, 1, 12 p., 1078.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Assessing exposure to outdoor advertisement for products high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS): is self-reported exposure a useful exposure metric?
Scott, L. J., Toumpakari, Z., Nobles, J., Sillero Rejon, C., Jago, R., Cummins, S., Blake, S., Horwood, J. & de Vocht, F., 11 Apr 2023, In: BMC Public Health. 23, 1, 11 p., 668.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Bridging Gaps: Improving access to general practice for and with marginalised patients- “it’s quite joyful for us, it’s really improved our work.”
Potter, L. C., Stone, T. J., Swede, J., Bridging Gaps group, Connell, F., Cramer, H. A., McGeown, H. R., Carvalho, M., Horwood, J., Feder, G. S. & Farr, M. C., 30 Jun 2023, (In preparation) In: British Journal of General Practice.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Data from Back to School (11-2020)
Kesten, J. (Creator), Horwood, J. (Creator), Kidger, J. L. (Creator), Lorenc, A. (Creator) & Langford, R. M. (Creator), University of Bristol, 5 Nov 2020
DOI: 10.5523/bris.v5fc53z84q2q2wqd2omc8mdml, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/v5fc53z84q2q2wqd2omc8mdml
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Data from CHOP study (09-2020)
Kesten, J. (Creator), Horwood, J. (Creator) & Lorenc, A. (Creator), University of Bristol, 30 Sept 2020
DOI: 10.5523/bris.3tv15i98pr7gq2asvudjfmzpvo, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/3tv15i98pr7gq2asvudjfmzpvo
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Activities
- 1 Participation in conference
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British Association for Sexual Health
Jeremy P Horwood (Speaker)
1 Jun 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference