The Portsmouth-Brawijaya Centre For Global Health, Population And Policy
The Portsmouth-Brawijaya Centre for Global Health, Population, and Policy (PB Centre) is a collaboration between the University of Portsmouth and the University of Brawijaya in Malang, Indonesia. The key mission of the PB Centre is to improve the health and well-being of people globally through research, teaching and training.
Established in 2015 with the assistance of an Institutional Link grant from the British Council’s Newton Fund, we conduct world-class, evidence-based and policy-led research, on both basic and applied bio-social determinants of health.
We also teach advanced research methods – to enable future scientists to undertake more complex data analysis challenges – and provide postgraduate training and continuing professional development programmes to enable practising researchers to update their knowledge of population health.
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth include:
Professor Sasee Pallikadavath
- Job Title Professor of Demography and Global Health
- Email Address Sasee.Pallikadavath@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Health and Care Professions
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
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Professor Tamsin Bradley
- Job Title Professor in International Development Studies
- Email Address Tamsin.Bradley@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Area Studies History Politics and Literature
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Dr James Brown
- Job Title Principal Lecturer
- Email Address James.Brown@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Dr Julia Brown
- Job Title Senior Lecturer
- Email Address ecs80613@myport.ac.uk
- Department School of the Environment Geography and Geosciences
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
Dr Lana Chikhungu
- Job Title Senior Lecturer in International Development Studies
- Email Address Lana.Chikhungu@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Area Studies History Politics and Literature
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Dr Amy Drahota
- Job Title Reader in Health and Social Care Evidence Evaluation
- Email Address Amy.Drahota@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Health and Care Professions
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
Maria Anna Gardener
- Email Address hsc90288@myport.ac.uk
- Department School of Architecture
- Faculty Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries
Dr Suzannah Helps
- Job Title Senior Lecturer
- Email Address Suzannah.Helps@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Health and Care Professions
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
Professor Sherria Hoskins
- Job Title Executive Dean
- Email Address Sherria.Hoskins@port.ac.uk
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
Professor Dylan Jones
- Job Title Professor of Operational Research
- Email Address Dylan.Jones@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Mathematics and Physics
- Faculty Faculty of Technology
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Dr Ngianga Ii Kandala
- Job Title Senior Lecturer
- Email Address Ngianga.Kandala@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Health and Care Professions
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Dr Isobel Ryder
- Job Title Principal Lecturer
- Email Address Isobel.Ryder@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Health and Care Professions
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Dr Rebecca Stores
- Job Title Senior Lecturer
- Email Address Rebecca.Stores@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Health and Care Professions
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Dr Alan Thorne
- Job Title Associate Dean (Research)
- Email Address Alan.Thorne@port.ac.uk
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
Dr Annabel Tremlett
- Job Title Senior Lecturer
- Email Address ecs90516@myport.ac.uk
- Department School of Health and Care Professions
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Professor Joy Watts
- Job Title Professor of Environmental Microbiology
- Email Address Joy.Watts@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Biological Sciences
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Professor Matthew Weait
- Job Title Executive Dean
- Email Address Matthew.Weait@port.ac.uk
- Faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr Malcolm Whitworth
- Job Title Reader
- Email Address Malcolm.Whitworth@port.ac.uk
- Department School of the Environment Geography and Geosciences
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Our partners
The PB Centre aims to generate maximum impact for its research findings on policy and programming at national, regional and local government levels. We work with:
- The academic community
- Federal governments
- The third sector
- International agencies
- Inter-governmental organisations
- International organisations such as the United Nations Population Fund
Research
The PB Centre has a unique team of interdisciplinary researchers, drawn from various faculties within both Universities.
Our geographic expertise covers most of the world’s low and middle income countries and our researchers have academic backgrounds in fields such as anthropology, public health, applied mathematics and human psychology.
Research areas of expertise include gender relations, family planning, food security, HIV transmission and domestic violence – and the range of methodological expertise within the centre includes impact evaluation, advanced statistical modelling and ethnographic methods.
Current and recent projects
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Research funding award from the Medical Research Council: £510,577.00, effective start/end date 3/06/15 to 9/07/18.
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Aminuddin, F, Pallikadavath, S, Kamanda, A, Sukesi, K, Rosalinda, H & Hatton, K 2019, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 97-114.
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The Portsmouth Birth Cohort Study
A flagship UK project, conducted in collaboration with Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust and Portsmouth City Council – that aims to gather information on over 2,000 births in Portsmouth from 2016 and explore biological and social determinants of health and wellbeing in mothers and children.
The centre also recently completed a research project for the British Academy on the impact of low fertility on the health and well-being of women in developing countries, and concluded an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) seminar series on low fertility in developing countries, in collaboration with the University of Oxford and the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum.
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