Professor Rachel Isba
ProfessorResearch Overview
My broad research interests are in the areas of public health and healthcare inequalities. My public health research looks at infectious diseases and the role of paediatric public health in secondary care (with a focus on children's public health in acute care settings). My healthcare inequalities work focuses on the delivery of specialist paediatric care, engagement (with a focus on historically excluded groups), and the use of health needs assessment in hospital care.
Current Research
Current projects include a study looking at the impact of the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic on children with a newly diagnosed brain tumour and a project looking at how children's hospitals can address inequalities experienced by the populations they serve.
Current Teaching
I am involved in teaching students across all five years of the undergraduate medical programme and supervise several postgraduate students.
Additional Information
I am Professor of Children and Young People's Health within Lancaster Medical School and also a medical doctor working in Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Public Health in Manchester.
Children's Hospitals Inequalities Research Project (CHIRP)
01/04/2022 → 30/06/2023
Consultancy
Barriers to Health Research at Blackpool Council - developing potential solutions using consensus methodology
01/10/2020 → 31/01/2021
Research
Where have all the doctors gone? An ethnographic study to explore the retention problem in Emergency Medicine
01/10/2019 → 31/03/2023
Research
Intervention delivered in secondary or tertiary medical care settings to improve routine vaccination uptake in children and young people
01/09/2019 → …
Research
Clinical Academic Lectureship in Neurology
01/08/2017 → 31/07/2021
Research
Health Education England North West - Health Education Micro Learning Environment Measure
01/08/2015 → 01/08/2017
Research
Vaccination is a huge global health success, so why do people hesitate?
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Children and Young People's attitudes and experiences of vaccinations - turning evidence into practice.
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Joan Robson Prize, Association for Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Prize (including medals and awards)
Experimental Medicine
- Interdisciplinary network in culture, health, ethics and society