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Oliver FRANCIS
Specialist Collaborator
Oliver Francis leads on communications and knowledge exchange for the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge. He is responsible for traditional and social media outputs and works to promote dialogue between researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and other groups. He teaches evidence communications and policy engagement skills on the Cambridge Population Health Sciences MPhil. His work transforming the impact strategies at the MRC Epidemiology Unit and Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR) was recognised by the University of Cambridge Professional Services Impact Award in 2019. Before moving to Cambridge, Oliver was based in the press office at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust for several years, where he worked across several communications disciplines: press and PR, stakeholder relations, internal communications, web and social media. He has also worked for NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, as a researcher for television documentaries, and continues to work as a freelance writer and novelist.
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P. Wadende et al., “Foodscapes, finance, and faith: Multi-sectoral stakeholder perspectives on the local population health and wellbeing in an urbanizing area in Kenya,” Frontiers in Public Health, vol. 10, 2022. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.913851.
P. van der Graaf, O. Francis, E. Barrett and G. Docherty, Challenges in Comparing Knowledge Exchange Practices Across Five Centres of Excellence in Public Health Research. 2020. doi: 10.4135/9781529709933.
L. Foley et al., “Impacts of a new supermarket on dietary behavior and the local foodscape in Kisumu, Kenya: Protocol for a mixed methods, natural experimental study,” JMIR Research Protocols, vol. 9, no. 12, e17814, 2020. doi: 10.2196/17814.
K. Cullerton, J. Adams, O. Francis, N. Forouhi and M. White, “Building consensus on interactions between population health researchers and the food industry: Two-stage, online, international delphi study and stakeholder survey,” PLOS ONE, vol. 14, no. 8, N. Ali, Ed., e0221250, 2019. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221250.
P. Monsivais, O. Francis, R. Lovelace, M. Chang, E. Strachan and T. Burgoine, “Data visualisation to support obesity policy: Case studies of data tools for planning and transport policy in the UK,” International Journal of Obesity, vol. 42, no. 12. pp. 1977–1986, 2018. doi: 10.1038/s41366-018-0243-6.