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I qualified as a doctor from the University of Manchester in 1995. Prior to this I worked at the Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, South Manchester University NHS Trust and in Respiratory Medicine.
I thoroughly enjoy teaching and currently teach undergraduates and postgraduates from a variety of backgrounds. My research interestes include urban health, hepatitis C and blood borne viruses. I set up the Manchester Urban Collaboration on Health which is part of the Centre for Epidemiology. More information regarding all our projects can be found on the intranet.
British Thoracic Society (BTS)
Diabetes UK
Faculty of Public Health
Public Health Educators in Medical Schools (PHEMS)
European Public Health Association (EUPHA)
International Society of Urban Health (ISUH)
American Association of Public Health (APHA)
Manchester Medical Society
MBChB University of Manchester 1995
MPH (Distinction) University of Manchester 2006
MFPH Faculty of Public Health 2007 (by examination)
PhD University of Manchester 2011
FFPH Faculty of Public Health 2011 (through nomination)
Prof Arpana Verma is Head of the Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care. She is Director of Manchester Urban Collaboration on Health (MUCH) a WHO Collaborating Centre and honorary Consultant in Public Health at PHE. MUCH is based within the School of Health Sciences in the Faculty of Biology, Medical and Human Sciences. MUCH performs high quality research, teaching and training, in the field of public health and has established links to local, national and international public health organisations (www.manchester.ac.uk/much). MUCH was designated the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Health Indicators.
Prof Verma is currently the Programme Director for the Masters in Public Health and MRes in Public Health/Prim online distance learning course, which offers an innovative approach to learning, meeting the training needs for health professionals interested in a career in public health or those seeking new skills in this area (http://www.mhs.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/programmes/taughtmasters/ph/mph). She is also the Evaluation Lead for Well North, a collaborative programme which is developing, testing and piloting a set of linked interventions to improve the health of the poorest, fastest, in some of the most deprived areas of the North of England (http://www.mahsc.ac.uk/for-patients-and-the-public/well-north/). She is the teaching lead for the MAHSC Global Health theme and a board member of cities@manchester (http://www.cities.manchester.ac.uk/)
Prof Verma was the principle investigator (PI) of the European Urban Health Indicator System project (EURO-URHIS 2) funded by DG Research under the FP7 programme (http://www.urhis.eu/), and is also the president of the European Public Health Association section on Urban Health (http://www.eupha.org/urban-public-health).
She is also PI on a number of health service research projects, primarily in hepatitis C and blood borne virus prevention, infection control, immunisation including MMR and HPV vaccine. Many of these projects involve data linkage of health indicators, risk factors and the wider determinants of health to help understand the urban challenges to health both within the UK and globally. The most recent EU grant consists of investigating health ageing in cities.
Prof Verma is also an expert for WHO, which has led to several publications (http://www.who.int/kobe_centre/publications/urban_metrics2011/en/index.html http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/172509/Developing-indicators-for-the-Health-2020-targets-Eng.pdf )
Prof Verma also runs training events for public health professionals including the Public Health Grand Rounds, Festival of Public Health and with MAHSC, the 11th International Conference on Urban Health 2014 (http://www.festivalofpublichealth.co.uk/ http://www.icuh2014.com/).
She also holds an honorary consultant post at Public Health England.
Programme Director for the Masters in Public Health and MRes in Public Health and Primary Care.
Joint lead for the I3HS initiative with Prof Andy Brass leading to teaching innovations in healthcare.
Lead for Epideiology Summer School and CPD events.
Lead for Public Health teaching activities.
Urban Health
Hepatitis C
Infection control and immunisation needs assessment
HPV programme
MMR
COPD
Cystic Fibrosis
Collaborators
EURO-URHIS 1 and 2 partners can be found on www.urhis.eu
Well North - www.wellnorth.com
WHOCC - can be found on http://www.euro.who.int/en/data-and-evidence/european-health-information-initiative-ehii
Admin, Research and Teaching Staff
MUCH - http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/epidemiology/MUCH/
I3HS Hub
Students
PhD students and alumni
Masters students and alumni
Internship students - see blog https://eupha.org/repository/projects/EUPHAnxt/Aoife_McKiernan_Internship2018.pdf
Glbal Health students - see blog http://mcrglobalhealth.com/2016/07/01/award-most-inspirational-public-health-t/
Running large scale multinational urban health monitoring projects
Health needs assessments
Health equity audits
Strategic needs assessments
Strategy development
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Honorary Consultant, Public Health England (PHE)
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Other contribution
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Wong, C., Verma, A. & Koksal, C.
1/10/19 → 30/09/24
Project: Research
Jones, A., Voros, E., George-Davidson, A., Hammond, A., Povey, A., Spencer, A., Sahu, A., Clayson, A., Harrison, A., Edwards, A., Verma, A., Lophatananon, A., Doyle, C., Wasiuk, C., Greenhalgh, C., Huish, C., Nash, D., Mcelvenny, D., Payne, D., Cairns, D., Cowley, E., Dalgarno, E., Evans, E., Cross, E., Borocin, F., Clough, G., Williams, G., Mohamed, H., Waterson, H., Wei, H., Basinas, I., Iskandar, I., Gemmell, I., Lamb, J., Stocks, J., Owen, J., Chadwick, J., Walsh, K., Winstanley, K., Muir, K., Fowler, K., Mekli, K., Blake, L., Byrne, L., Hasler, L., White, L., Kennedy, L., Van Tongeren, M., Regan, M., Carder, M., Brook, N., Gartland, N., Bouamra, O., Whittaker, P., Hammond, P., Bentley, R., Addam, R., Harrison, R., Zubaite, R., Mason, S., Jones, S., Jahr, S., Mitchell, S., Senior, S., Taylor, S., Walsh, S., Farragher, T., Zagrodnik, V., Alam, W., Mangan, D., Davidson, H., Mcconnell, J., Lewis, C., Tilley, C., Clarke, D., Yu, X., Seed, M., Weston, R., Sugden, S. & Ahmed, S.
Project: Research
Van Tongeren, M., Verma, A., Hall, I., Ananiadou, S., Bourne, N., Carder, M., Clayson, A., Jones, A., Mcconnell, J., Stocks, J. & House, T.
1/10/20 → 31/03/22
Project: Research
Van Tongeren, M., Wei, H., Denning, D., Hall, I., Han, Y., Regan, C., Verma, A., Whitfield, C. & Daniels, S.
27/04/20 → 26/04/21
Project: Research
Mills, E. C., Couch, P., Guo, H., Simpson, A. & Verma, A.
1/08/18 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
Verma, Arpana (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Verma, Arpana (Recipient), 1 Jul 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Elizabeth Dalgarno (Other), Donna Bramwell (Other), Arpana Verma (Other), Gregory Williams (Other) & Steph Mitchell (Other)
Activity: Other
Elizabeth Dalgarno (Other), Paola Motosi (Contributor), Dr Adrienne Barnett (Contributor), Dr Emma Katz (Contributor), Natalie Page (Contributor) & Arpana Verma (Other)
Activity: Other
Roger Harrison (Speaker), Isla Gemmell (Speaker) & Arpana Verma (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Arpana Verma (Participant)
Impact: Health and wellbeing, Attitudes and behaviours, Economic, Policy, Society and culture, Technological
Arpana Verma & Heather Catt
16/06/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert comment
Arpana Verma & Heather Catt
4/06/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert comment
24/05/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert comment