Professor John Powell

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Professor of Public Health Medicine

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Health Sciences
Room B150
Medical School Building, Gibbet Hill Road
University of Warwick, Coventry
CV4 7AL 		Tel: 024 7657 4883
Fax: 024 7652 8375
Email: John.Powell@warwick.ac.uk
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RESEARCH PROFILE


  • Ehealth, especially using the internet to improve public health

  • Information and communication in health care

  • Decision making and knowledge management

  • Public understanding of medicine

  • E-epidemiology and the use of electronic health records to support health services research

BACKGROUND


John Powell is Professor of Public Health Medicine at the University of Warwick, and Clinical Director of NHS Choices (www.nhs.uk), the NHS website. He has a particular interest in ehealth and the use of information and communication technology to improve health and health services, and a broad interest in health communication and knowledge management. His previous academic appointments were at the University of Southampton, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Oxford. He has degrees in Social and Political Sciences and Clinical Medicine from the University of Cambridge. He trained in Psychiatry in Oxford, where he worked with the NHS Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health. He trained in Public Health Medicine in the Oxford region. He has an MSc and a PhD from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

His current projects are in three main areas: (1) evaluating the effectiveness of ehealth tools (for example a randomised trial of an internet-based intervention to promote mental wellbeing; and a randomised trial of an internet intervention for cardiac rehabilitation); (2) investigating how a connected health world is changing how patients and the public interact with health services and manage their own health (for example a study examining patient to patient interactions online; and a study examining how young people, 'digital natives' are engaging with health care in new ways); (3) investigating how health service managers make decisions (for example a study of how NHS commissioning decisions are made; and a study of how NHS Chief Executives make decisions).

He has a strong interest in the public understanding of medicine. For example, a recent Wellcome funded television project on the life of Dr John Snow. He has also worked as a medical advisor to television programmes including "Casualty 1909" (BBC1), "Spanish Flu - The Forgotten Fallen" (BBC4) and "Downton Abbey" (ITV1). He has been interviewed on BBC Breakfast, the BBC News channel, BBC Radio 4, and by Nature, the Economist, and the major national newspapers.

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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS


  • TAR team tender, with Professor Aileen Clarke, Health Sciences Research Institute, - - - - Dr Chris Bridle CPsychol - Health Sciences Research Institute Mrs Samantha A Johnson - Library Dr Paul A Sutcliffe - Health Sciences Research Institute - - - Prof Wiji W Arulampalam - Economics Professor John A Powell - Health Sciences Research Institute Professor Ruth M Davies - WBS - ORMS Dr Simon Gates - Health Sciences Research Institute, Funded by: National Institute for Health Research (DoH), Project Start Date: 01/04/2011 Project End Date: 31/03/2016
  • Examining the role of parents experience as a resource for choice and decision making in healthcare, with -, Funded by: National Institute for Health Research (DoH), Project Start Date: 01/02/2010 Project End Date: 31/01/2015
  • Provision of Research services to West Midlands digital service, with Prof Lucy Hooberman BA, MA, Warwick Manufacturing Group, Dr John A Powell - Health Sciences Research Institute, Funded by: Maverick Television Limited, Project Start Date: 04/01/2010 Project End Date: 03/01/2015
  • West midlands digital health service, Funded by: Maverick Television Limited, Project Start Date: 04/01/2010 Project End Date: 03/01/2015
  • AMENDMENT to Data Sharing Agreement: Examining the role of patients experiences as a resource for choice and decision making in health care (linked to 29525 and 21046), Funded by: University of Oxford, Project Start Date: 01/09/2011 Project End Date: 10/01/2013
  • Networked Innovation in the Health Sector: Comparative Evaluation of the Role of CLAHRCs, Funded by: National Institute for Health Research (DoH), Project Start Date: 01/11/2009 Project End Date: 31/10/2012

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


  • Raftery, J., Bryant, J., Powell, J., Kerr, C. and Hawker, S.(2008) 'Payment to healthcare professionals for patient recruitment to trials: systematic review and qualitative study ' Health Technology Assessment 12 (10), 1 - 128 (1366-5278)
  • Powell J, Clarke A(2006) 'Internet information-seeking in mental health: population survey.' British Journal Of Psychiatry 189 (3), 273 - 277 (0007-1250) [article]
  • Eysenbach G, Powell J, Englesakis M, Rizo C, Stern A(2004) 'Health related virtual communities and electronic support groups: systematic review of the effects of online peer to peer interactions.' British Medical Journal 328 (7449), 1166 - 1170 (0959-535X)
  • Eysenbach G, Powell J, Kuss O, Sa E R(2002) 'Empirical studies assessing the quality of health information for consumers on the world wide web: a systematic review.' Journal Of The American Medical Association - Jama 287 (20), 2691 - 2700 (0098-7484) [article]
  • Powell, J., et al.(2011) 'The characteristics and motivations of online health information seekers : cross-sectional survey and qualitative interview study' Journal Of Medical Internet Research 13 (1), (1438-8871) [article]

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Conferences

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