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Professor Lindsay Forbes

Theme Lead for Public Health

Professor Lindsay Forbes

Lindsay is the Theme Lead for Public Health at the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

She is also Clinical Professor of Public Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies at the University (CHSS) of Kent.

Her areas of experience and interest include developing research capacity and research leadership in the public health workforce, evaluations of health services and public health interventions, observational epidemiology of chronic disease and cancer, communicating with the public about public health interventions, design of data collection instruments, and systematic reviewing.

Lindsay joined CHSS in 2016 from King’s College London and Queen Mary, University of London. In London, she was one of the Principal Investigators at the Department of Health's Policy Research Unit on cancer awareness, screening and early diagnosis. She investigated international, ethnic and socioeconomic differences in cancer awareness and beliefs and led the evaluation of a complex intervention to promote early presentation of breast cancer. She advised the Department of Health on the 'Be Clear on Cancer' awareness campaigns. She played a major role in developing an innovative evidence-based approach to information about cancer screening on behalf of the NHS Cancer Screening Programme, aiming to offer informed choice.

From 2004-2007 Lindsay was a consultant in public health medicine in Wandsworth Primary Care Trust. While in this role, Lindsay studied the association between air pollution and cardiorespiratory disease at St George’s, University of London. She has also led academic projects at King’s College London studying the environmental causes of asthma and asthma attacks. Before joining the public health (and academic) workforce in 1995, her clinical background was in acute medicine for seven years after qualifying in 1988.
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