Professor Rachel Isba
ProfessorResearch Overview
My broad research interests are in the areas of paedaitric public health medicine (with a focus on vaccination and paediatric addiction/dependence) and healthcare inequalities. My public health research looks at the role of paediatric public health in secondary/tertiary care (with a focus on children's public health in acute care settings). My healthcare inequalities work focuses on the delivery of specialist paediatric care, engagement (with a focus on historically excluded groups), and the use of health needs assessment in hospital care.
Current Research
Current projects include public health approaches to vaping and vaping cessation in under-16s, the role of hospital care in supporting children and young people (CYP) who use nicotine, drugs, or alcohol, and improving inequalities for CYP accessing hospital care.
Current Teaching
I am involved in teaching students across all five years of the undergraduate medical programme and supervise several postgraduate students.
Additional Information
I am Professor of Children and Young People's Health within Lancaster Medical School and also a medical doctor working at Alder Hey Children's Hospital.
Children's Hospitals Inequalities Research Project (CHIRP)
01/04/2022 → 30/06/2023
Consultancy
Barriers to Health Research at Blackpool Council - developing potential solutions using consensus methodology
01/10/2020 → 31/01/2021
Research
Where have all the doctors gone? An ethnographic study to explore the retention problem in Emergency Medicine
01/10/2019 → 31/03/2023
Research
Intervention delivered in secondary or tertiary medical care settings to improve routine vaccination uptake in children and young people
01/09/2019 → …
Research
Clinical Academic Lectureship in Neurology
01/08/2017 → 31/07/2021
Research
Health Education England North West - Health Education Micro Learning Environment Measure
01/08/2015 → 01/08/2017
Research
Vaccination is a huge global health success, so why do people hesitate?
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Children and Young People's attitudes and experiences of vaccinations - turning evidence into practice.
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Joan Robson Prize, Association for Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Prize (including medals and awards)
- Interdisciplinary network in culture, health, ethics and society