Institute for Health and Human Development

Dr Emee Vida Estacio

Position: Research Fellow in Health Promotion

Discipline(s): Health Psychology, Community Development, Education

Telephone: (0)7986 772966

Email: e.v.g.estacio@psy.keele.ac.uk

Contact address:

Department of Psychology
Keele University
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG

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Brief Biography:

Emee is a health psychologist who specialises in health promotion and community development. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology (magna cum laude) at the University of the Philippines, Diliman and her MSc in Health Psychology at City University London. In 2004, Emee was awarded a bursary by City University for her PhD to explore the impact of material deprivation and social exclusion on health and well-being. As part of this project, she facilitated a participatory action research with the indigenous Ayta community to develop an alternative learning system (ALS) to enhance literacy and community capabilities and thereby improve health. The project involved collaboration with NGOs, local and national government units. In the process, a community literacy centre was built, a pool of Ayta leaders was organised and a multi-purpose cooperative programme was established.

Emee worked closely with Professor David Marks and had been involved in various health promotion projects including the Quit for Life smoking cessation programme, the Care Plus research on carer’s experiences, and the evaluation of the Food Standards Agency’s Salt it Out Programme. She also served as a visiting lecturer at City University where she taught and supervised postgraduate students in health psychology. Research topics she supervised include the psychosocial impact of cultural migration among South Asians in the UK; sexual health promotion among African-Caribbeans; and the meaning of ‘unplanned pregnancy’ among teenage mothers in London.

Emee joined the IHHD in February 2008 as project coordinator for Healthy Redbridge where she coordinated its service mapping, household survey and community engagement activities. She also coordinated the effectiveness review of healthy weight-related projects commissioned by NHS City and Hackney. She was also involved in the evaluation of the Healthwise Exercise Referral Scheme in Greenwich and the Pilot Vascular Check Programme in Tower Hamlets. She also contributed in the preparation of research bids for the Institute.

Emee is currently a lecturer at Keele University and senior editorial assistant of the Journal of Health Psychology. She is part of the International Advisory Board for the World Conference on Psychology, Counseling and Guidance and affiliated with the International Society for Critical Health Psychology and the Association for Heterodox Economics. She has also acted as a referee for the Lancet, Child Abuse and Neglect, and the Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. She was a fundraiser for Oxfam and the Association for International Cancer Research, and a volunteer for CRIBS Philippines and Save the Children UK.

Areas of interest/Summary of Expertise:

• Critical health psychology
• Community development
• Foucauldian discourse analysis
• Health literacy
• Indigenous health
• Child labour

Research / Publications:

Articles In Journals

Forthcoming

• Estacio, E.V., Cawley, J., Renton, A., Tobi, P., Sheridan, K., Schmidt, E., Adams-Eaton, F., Sadare, O., Berzins, K., Yu, G., and Wall, M. (in preparation). 'Healthy Redbridge': A multi-method, participatory community needs assessment for planning health improvement programmes. Health Promotion Practice.
• Estacio, E.V. and Tobi, P. (in preparation). Public health meets health psychology: Self-determination theory’s potential to improve adherence to exercise on referral. Health Education Research.
• Tobi, P. and Estacio, E.V. (in preparation). Who stays, who drops out? Sociodemographic and service delivery factors associated with adherence in exercise referral schemes.
• Estacio, E.V. and Marks, D.F. (under revision). Discourses from the PAR-ALS project with the Aytas in the Philippines. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.

Published

• Estacio, E.V. (2009). ‘Your freedom ends where my nose begins’: Health psychology's potential towards critical empowerment, media advocacy and social action. Journal of Health Psychology, 14, 660-662.
• Estacio, E.V. (2009). Human exploitation is NOT a joke - so don't laugh. Journal of Health Psychology, 14, 627-637.
• Estacio, E.V. (2009). Media exploitation, racism and health. Journal of Health Psychology, 14, 155 - 157.
• Estacio, E.V. and Marks, D.F. (2007). Health inequity and social injustice for the Aytas in the Philippines: Critical psychology in action. Journal of Social Action in Counselling and Psychology, 1, 40-57.
• Estacio, E.V. (2006). Going beyond the rhetoric: The movement of critical health psychology towards social action. Journal of Health Psychology, 11, 347-350.
• Estacio, E.V. and Marks, D.F. (2005). Child labour and the ILO Convention 182: A critical perspective. Journal of Health Psychology, 10, 475-484.

Reports

• Harden, A., Estacio, E. V., Tobi P., Adams-Eaton, F., Bertotti, M., and Lais, S. (2009). A review of effectiveness, including cost-effectiveness where possible, of commissioned healthy weight-related projects in City and Hackney, a report commissioned by the City & Hackney Primary Care Trust. Institute for Health and Human Development, University of East London.
• Renton, A., Schmidt, E., Sheridan, K., Estacio, E.V., Harden, A. and Yu, G. (2009). Healthy Redbridge: Less Well-off Neighbourhoods A Household Survey for NHS Redbridge. Institute for Health and Human Development, University of East London.
• Tobi, P., Estacio, E.V., Seesaghur, A., Nabingi, S. and Cawley, J. (2009). Evaluation of Healthwise Exercise Referral Scheme. Institute for Health and Human Development, University of East London.
• Sheridan, K., Estacio, E.V., Tobi, P., Berzins, K., Adams-Eaton, F., and Bertotti, M. (2008). Healthy Redbridge: Less Well-off Neighbourhoods Community Engagement & Mapping Report for NHS Redbridge. Institute for Health and Human Development, University of East London.
• Bogle, V., Pearson, J., Estacio, E.V., and Marks, D.F. (2008). Salt It Out Evaluation Report. Food Standards Agency.
• Estacio, E.V., Sykes, C.M. and Marks, D.F. (2008). The Carers Experience: Insights from the Qualitative Analysis from the Care Plus Evaluation in Tower Hamlets. The Prince’s Trust.

Conference Contributions

• Estacio, E.V. and Marks, D.F. (2006). Health, material deprivation and social injustice: A participatory action research with the Aytas in the Philippines. A poster presented at the Communities and Change Workshop (26 June 2006). London School of Economics and Political Science.
• Estacio, E.V. and Marks, D.F. (2005). Macroeconomics and Health: An International Analysis of Government Health Expenditure and Health Outcomes. A paper presented at the 7th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (15-17 July 2005). City University London.
• Estacio, E.V. and Marks, D.F. (2005). The Macroeconomic Determinants of Health. A paper presented at the 4th International Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychologists (29 March – 1 April 2005). Sheffield, UK.
• Estacio, E.V. and Marks, D.F. (2005). Child labour and the ILO Convention 182: A critical perspective. A paper presented at the 4th International Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychologists (29 March – 1 April 2005). Sheffield, UK.

Dissertations

• Estacio, E.V. (2007). Integrating theory, research and social action in the context of material deprivation and social injustice. PhD dissertation: City University London.
• Estacio, E.V. (2003). Child labour and health: An appeal to the Philippine Government. MSc dissertation: City University London.

Other presentations

• Estacio, E.V. (2009). Integrating theory, research and social action in the context of material deprivation and social injustice. A seminar presented at the Institute for Health and Human Development (26 May 2009). University of East London.
• Estacio, E.V. (2007). Integrating theory, research and social action in the context of material deprivation and social injustice. A paper presented at the Research Students Seminar (27 June 2007). Department of Psychology, City University London.
• Estacio, E.V. (2006). Power and wealth ranking. A workshop facilitated at the Research Students Seminar (7 June 2006). Department of Psychology, City University London.
• Estacio, E.V. (2005). A discourse analytic approach to the International Labour Organisation’s Convention 182. An invited lecture presented at the Department of Psychology (14 September 2005). University of the Philippines, Quezon City.
• Estacio, E.V. and Marks, D.F. (2005). The Psychosocial Experience of Health and Macroeconomics. A poster presented at the Social Sciences Building Opening Day (2 March 2005). City University London.
• Estacio, E.V. and Marks, D.F. (2004). A discourse analysis of the International Labour Organisation’s Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour. A poster presented at the Research Students Poster Day (21 October 2004). City University London.

last updated 14 August 2009

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