🚨New paper on health community champions!🚨
We examined the role of champions promoting vaccine uptake among underserved communities in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper stems from my wider PhD thesis project (1/4)

We have been awarded significant funding from NIHR Research to build #SocialCare research capacity.

The two-year project will help social care practitioners develop their research skills & promote equality, diversity and inclusion in health & social care kingston.ac.uk/news/article/2…

Thank you Different Strokes for promoting this important study - giving voice to people from their black communities living with stroke. Still looking for participants to share their stories. RTs welcome and DM for further details

Absolutely delighted to be working with a passionate multi disciplinary team to consider novel ways to address mental health inequalities

'Through collaborative and innovative efforts, we are delighted to be collaborating with communities on inclusive solutions for mental health' 💙
🗣️Prof. Tushna Vandrevala

Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities, a joint project with University of the Arts London, has secured £1.25m in funding.

New publication!
Exploring how members of the public access and use health research and information: a scoping review
#celayneheaton -shretha Prof. Tushna Vandrevala Kristin Hanson, PhD Sophia Quirke-McFarlane ☘️ Nancy Delaney NIHR Evidence

link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Come work with me TheJoWhite Mary Cramp and Prof. Tushna Vandrevala on this important study!

We are looking for a #research fellow to support a NIHR Research-funded project to co-design resources to help Black people living with a stroke self-manage their condition.

Find out more 👇 or by contacting Prof. Tushna Vandrevala - the closing date is 1 September jobs.kingston.ac.uk/vacancy/resear…

There is a vacancy for a research fellow to support the research project. Find out more 👇 jobs.kingston.ac.uk/vacancy/resear…

Health psychology expert Professor Prof. Tushna Vandrevala is joining forces with UWE Bristol to look at how Black people living with the after-effects of a stroke can be better supported.

The NIHR Research-funded project will begin in October.

kingston.ac.uk/news/article/2… #KingstonUniResearch

Applications welcome for a Research Fellow (0.4FTE) to work on NIHR funded study on 'inclusivity in Stroke Self Management support': jobs.kingston.ac.uk/vacancy/resear… (Closing date: 1/9/23)

We won!!! #ldawards23 Hurray for Kingston University! Kingston University Kingston University Nursing 💙 CAHSCR Kingston University Kingston Health, Science, Social Care & Education St George's, University of London

Attending a session on health literacy and coming away with a lot of ideas. A lot of relatable content by Prof. Tushna Vandrevala on navigating social media misinformation amongst people of the global majority and personal experience of tackling this informally #DHPconference #EDI

A seminar looking at how health information can be more accessible to ethnic communities & inequalities can be addressed, following #Covid19 challenges takes place later this month.

Kingston Health, Science, Social Care & Education's Prof. Tushna Vandrevala will lead the session - places remain available 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/accessing-he…

A conversation with Prof. Tushna Vandrevala and Atiya chaired by Dr Amanda Bunten - Round table discussion on how we can use behavioural science principles to add value in the real world BSPHN #BSPHN23

💭Are you interested in the process of co-production, sharing power, and forming community-academic partnerships? ➡️ Read our newly published protocol bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/1/e… Sally Hargreaves Hackney Regeneration Felicity Knights Yusuf Ciftci Prof. Tushna Vandrevala SGUL Infect Immunity

'Study finds COVID-19 conspiracy theories led to lower uptake of vaccine and testing among UK Black community' medicalxpress.com/news/2023-01-c… via Medical Xpress

Prof. Tushna Vandrevala: '...it's a huge social justice issue.'

#ScienceUpFirst

Unpaid experience requirements in the British Psychological Society courses and professions training pathways denies opportunity for working class students and inhibits a diverse workforce

To AHPD - can you pledge to remove these requirements?

2023 is the year to make that pledge

Written by the UK Congenital CMV Infection Collaboration, our article outlines the challenges in diagnosis and treatment of congenital CMV
adc.bmj.com/content/early/…
CMV Action UK Prof. Tushna Vandrevala Liz Whittaker Wyld Asma Khalil Alasdair Bamford Simon Drysdale

What a huge privilege it is to be invited to contribute our work on reducing health inequalities and healthy futures. Thank you BSPHN