Position: Acting Director of Research
Location: UH250, Stratford Campus
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8223 6236
Fax: +44 (0) 20 8223 4282
Email: p.tobi@uel.ac.uk
Contact address:
IHHD, UH250
University of East London
Stratford Campus
Water Lane
Stratford E15 4LZ
Patrick Tobi is a Public Health physician whose background encompasses public health practice, research and training, both internationally and locally. He joined IHHD in 2006 as a Research Fellow and is currently Acting Director for Research and Evaluation. His past work at the Department of Primary Care and Social medicine and the Centre for Health Management at Imperial College focused on developing a whole systems approach to assess the dynamics between health intervention programmes for HIV/AIDS and the wider health and socio-cultural systems in which they sit. Other work investigated the potential impacts of planned Thames gateway and Olympic regeneration programmes on the health and wellbeing of Black and Minority Ethnic communities in the area. He participated in the Health Forum for London Olympics 2012 and was involved in consulting work to assess progress by London Health Commission partners to tackle health inequalities in London.
He has led several research consultancies for a number of London Primary Care Trusts to deliver evidence on the effectiveness of health interventions related to local health priorities and to inform commissioning intentions. With other IHHD colleagues, he developed an innovative prioritisation matrix to assess the value for money of healthy weight, healthy lives projects in the London Boroughs of City and Hackney, and designed an integrated case management model for NHS Havering. Between 2008 and 2009 he worked as a senior consultant to NHS Tower Hamlets to provide health intelligence support for the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and build internal monitoring and evaluation capacity.
Patrick’s interests focus on using whole system approaches to understand the interaction between health interventions and the health and social systems in which they are delivered. He has developed theoretical frameworks and methodologies and tested them in HIV/AIDS programmes and primary care and community health service evaluations. He is also interested in how mixed methods research designs can used to investigate health system issues and complex interventions and how the results can be coherently interpreted
Schmidt E, Renton A, Atun R, Tobi P, Wall M, Schmidt J (2009). Why do health systems matter? Exploring links between health systems and HIV response: a case study from Russia. Health Policy and Planning (in press).
George G, Atujuna M, Gentile J, Quinlan T, Schmidt E, Tobi P, Renton A. The impact of ART scale up on health workers: evidence from two South African districts. AIDS Care (in press).
Tobi P, George G, Schmidt E, Renton A (2008). Antiretroviral treatment and the health workforce in South Africa: how have ART workers been affected by scaling up? Tropical Medicine & International Health 13(12):1452-1458. http://pt.wkhealth.com/pt/re/tmih/abstract.00060771-200812000-00005.htm;jsessionid=K8hWQQlxmRY0pZGShknpnvJPYTyncbcRJj0ct4pGvZRVMCVtxRhy!-901315139!181195629!8091!-1
Submitted/in preparation:
Tobi P, Estacio EV. Who stays, who drops out? sociodemographic determinants of adherence in exercise referral schemes. British Journal of General Practice (under revision)
Sheridan K, Tobi P. Towards a community engagement strategy: some practical notes. British Journal of Healthcare Management (submitted).
Tobi P, Renton A, Schmidt E. Bedu-Addo G, Owusu-Ofori A, Dawson-Amoah C. Implementing ‘3 by 5’ in Ghana: a multimethods investigation of the impact of early phase antiretroviral treatment scale-up on human resources for health. Health Policy (under revision).
Tobi P, Renton A, Schmidt E. Beyond content and context: a systems approach to evaluating HIV/AIDS intervention programmes. Critical Public Health (target).
Tobi P, Adams-Eaton F, Sadare O, Sheridan K. Navigating the sea of community engagement: twelve markers for practitioners. Health Expectations (target).
Tobi P, Banerjee S. Community engagement in Tower Hamlets: a two year synthesis of engagement methods and community intelligence. Health Education Research (target).
Tobi P. Mental health patients and attendance at exercise referral schemes: a quantitative investigation. Journal of Public Health (target).
Tobi P. Correlates of long term exercise behaviour in Black and Minority Ethnic people participating in an exercise referral programme. Ethnicity and Health (target).
Non-peer reviewed publications, working papers and reports:
Tobi P, Estacio EV, Seesaghur A, Nabingi S, Cawley J (2009). Evaluation of Healthwise Exercise Referral Scheme (Final Report). Prepared for NHS Greenwich.
Tobi P, Adams-Eaton F, Haque HW, Nabingi S, Cawley J (2008). Evaluation of Tower Hamlets Health Trainers Pilot Initiative (Final Report). Prepared for NHS Tower Hamlets.
Seesaghur A, Tobi P (2008). A rapid review of the evidence on Exercise Referral Schemes in the UK. Prepared for NHS Greenwich.
Tobi P (2007). A review of the evidence on health trainers: service development, delivery and impact. Prepared for NHS Tower Hamlets.
Renton A, Tobi P, Schmidt J (2006). Section 05: Review of progress. In: Health in London: Looking back – Looking forward 2006/07 Review; Greater London Authority.
Tobi P (2006). Cultural and creative industries, practitioners and approaches in community health promotion: a rapid desk review of the evidence. Working Paper.
Tobi P, Renton A, Tkatchenko-Schmidt E, Atun R (2006). Starving in the midst of plenty: what HIV toolkits reveal about HIV responses. Working Paper.
Tobi P, Tkatchenko-Schmidt E (2005). Whole Systems Assessment and Response: Ghana. Draft report of a visit to assess the systemic impacts of ART scale up in Ghana; 2005. Unit for International Health and Development, Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College, London.
Tobi P, Renton A, Tkatchenko-Schmidt E, Atun R (2004). Case study methods in health systems research. Discussion Paper.
Presentations:
Tobi P (2009). UEL evaluation of healthy weight projects. Stakeholder Feedback Event. Fellows Court Community Hall, Fellows Court Estate, London. 18th November 2009.
Tobi P (2009). An empirical study of community engagement in health: case study of Tower Hamlets. Faculty of Public Health Annual Conference, The Spa Complex, Scarborough, 16-18 June 2009 (poster presentation).
Tobi P, Lahiri R, Banerjee S (2009). Evaluation of Tower Hamlets health trainers’ pilot initiative. 17th UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum. The Brighton Centre, Brighton. 25 - 26 March 2009 (oral presentation).
Tobi P, Schmidt J (2009). Implications and recommendations for the Havering pilot Integrated Case Management programme. Stakeholder event, London Borough of Havering, 11th February 2009.
Tobi P (2008).An introduction to the evaluation of health trainers’ services. London Health Trainer Hub Meeting, Kennington, London. 25 September 2008 (oral presentation).
Other Responsibilities:
Teaching: UEL MSc Public Health and BSc Public Health and Health Promotion programmes
Dissertation supervision: MSc Public Health; 2007-2009
Peer reviewer: Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, Social Science and Medicine
Management: Acting Director of Research, IHHD
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Patrick Tobi has an abstract accepted for the 18th UK Public Health Association Annual Forum . Read More
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