Public health lecturer and researcher @OfficialUoM. All views and opinions are my own.
Joined February 2020
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Cath Lewis retweeted
9 Jul 2025
Its today! @FestivalofPH #IFPH2025
Schuster Building. Registration from 9am, followed by Plenaries inc Manchester HDRC, inclusive research etc parallel sessions & workshops, posters, prizes
See you there
@ManchesterBRC @AshtonInstitute @UoMPolicy @mwjtweet @UoM_COEH @CathLewis8
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Cath Lewis retweeted
Discover key insights from the @PROTECT_NCS on the “Living with COVID” policy and its impact on workplace transmission, response, and resilience in Greater Manchester. Learn about the challenges, successes, and lessons for future health crises. sites.manchester.ac.uk/covid…
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Cath Lewis retweeted
21 Oct 2024
See our new paper from the @PROTECT_NCS project - bmcpublichealth.biomedcentra…
Draws on PH and EH teams’ perspectives of managing COVID-19 transmission, in an area that was disproportionately affected by the pandemic 👇
@CathLewis8 @AshtonInstitute @AMBS_OrgPsych @UoM_COEH @Surin75
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Cath Lewis retweeted
📢 New Research Alert! 📢Researchers from @PROTECT_NCS analysed infection risks at a large conference in Nov 2021 to inform prevention of future outbreaks of respiratory infections in conferences and similar settings.
📚Read the paper: bit.ly/3LlO098
ALT image of a man wearing a face covering and protective clothing inside a food warehouse
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Cath Lewis retweeted
In this paper from the @PROTECT_NCS, the team reports on a multidisciplinary investigation of a COVID-19 outbreak at a storage and distribution centre in the UK, with the aim of better understanding workplace related risk factors for viral transmission. bit.ly/49ZBEgT
ALT Close up image of some text on a journal page with a pen resting on the page.
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Cath Lewis retweeted
22 Feb 2024
Last week Professor Sir Chris Whitty (@cmo_england) delivered the first lecture in our Talk 200 series, discussing why tackling health inequalities is of such importance and why Manchester's so well-placed to do it.
Watch the full lecture now: manchester.ac.uk/talk200/
#UoM200
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Cath Lewis retweeted
We are incredibly proud to be part of the team that worked on theme 3 of the @PROTECT_NCS, who were recently nominated as brilliant colleagues @FBMH_UoM
Watch the nomination here:
youtube.com/watch?v=bbSbGoGh…
ALT Banner image for the FBMH brilliant colleagues award. A large blue star on a purple background with white text that reads "Annual Celebration Event. Celebrate a brilliant colleague. You have been nominated".
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Cath Lewis retweeted
20 Nov 2023
"Sustained funding & effort required to protect people from communicable diseases & environmental threats to health on individual, group and population levels" 👇
@CathLewis8 @PROTECT_NCS @AshtonInstitute @AMBS_OrgPsych @martievt @meravkliner @dr_sakthi @stevensenior @BenWealthy1
As the #CovidInquiryUK continues, we publish our new policy position paper on #HealthProtection setting out why we must learn lessons from the pandemic to ensure we can protect people from communicable diseases & environmental threats to our health.
👀➡️ bit.ly/3MQ42JJ
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Cath Lewis retweeted
In this paper from @PROTECT_NCS, researchers discuss their study which aimed to establish whether prevalence and severity of long-COVID symptoms vary by industry and occupation.
oem.bmj.com/content/80/10/54…
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Cath Lewis retweeted
31 Oct 2023
Transfer "enabled PH to take advantage of councils’ role as stable place leaders, coordinating important partnerships across the NHS & other organisations, & with communities, developing the ethos that ‘health is everyone’s business’"👇
@dr_sakthi @ManchesterMPH @CathLewis8
29 Oct 2023
Last week we published a series of interviews to mark the tenth anniversary of the transfer of public health from the NHS to local government🎂1/2
1⃣@MichaelMarmot
2⃣@KateAlvanley
3⃣@jesstud
4⃣@AliceWiseman11
5⃣@DPH_MAshton
6⃣@SAPHNAteam
local.gov.uk/publications/ma…
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Cath Lewis retweeted
19 Oct 2023
We're all set for the delegates!
@UoM_COEH (& @AshtonInstitute) Lane Lecture 2023
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Cath Lewis retweeted
11 Oct 2023
Our new paper reflecting on the experience of the public transport sector through the pandemic period. We make recommendations for any future mitigations required for either new COVID-19 waves or a different public health emergency👇
@LlinosBrown @CathLewis8 @drsimonwilliams
The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the public transport sector in the UK. This @PROTECT_NCS paper considers recommendations for any future mitigations required for either new COVID-19 waves or a different public health emergency. rdcu.be/dojrp
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Cath Lewis retweeted
6 Oct 2023
2/ Read more about our work with different work places & sectors, & how things changed across the pandemic at:
sites.manchester.ac.uk/covid…
@martievt @CathLewis8 @AMBS_OrgPsych @IOMworld @CSA_HSE @nicolakgartland @UoM_COEH
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Cath Lewis retweeted
4 Oct 2023
Looks v useful for researchers planning PPIE activity. Combines exercises & Qs with a stepwise plan to help plan well thought-out engagement activity.
@ManchesterBRC @letsgetvocal @bellastarling @ShobaDawson @DonnaBramwell @Atiya_K @CathLewis8 @beccimorris13 @CarolineSwarbr2
2 Oct 2023
Calling all researchers!
Today we've launched a new, free online tool to support you to plan your Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) activity.
#Plan4PPIE
Take a look at plan4ppie.com/
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Cath Lewis retweeted
26 Sep 2023
In our new paper we consider a large body of research in the UK across different work sectors & time points during the COVID-19 pandemic.
academic.oup.com/annweh/adva…
@AshtonInstitute @AMBS_OrgPsych @PROTECT_NCS @IOMworld @martievt @CathLewis8 @CSA_HSE @drsimonwilliams @BenWealthy1
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8 Sep 2023
Really enjoyed chatting with colleagues about the @PROTECT_NCS Greater Manchester Case Study project at the Society for Social Medicine Conference #SSM2023 @AllianceMBS @AshtonInstitute @DrAJColeman @Martievt @mwjtweet @CSA_HSE : sites.manchester.ac.uk/covid…
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Cath Lewis retweeted
8 Sep 2023
Evidence suggests transmission of airborne viruses can be mitigated by wearing face coverings but that face covering declines with removal of relevant legislation, partly due to low automatic motivation. Read more in our new paper 👇
@AMBS_OrgPsych @CathLewis8 @drsimonwilliams
This paper from researchers on the @PROTECT_NCS discusses a study which aimed to test whether an intervention based on implementation intentions could support people’s automatic motivation and promote face covering during the COVID-19 pandemic.
sites.manchester.ac.uk/covid…
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Cath Lewis retweeted
24 Aug 2023
Important new report from the
@RoyalSociety looks at evidence from round the world on the effectiveness of COVID measures.
@drsimonwilliams summarises in this great thread.
@PROTECT_NCS @martievt @AshtonInstitute @CathLewis8 @lohmir @mwjtweet @AMBS_OrgPsych @BenWealthy1
23 Aug 2023
🚨Our MAJOR new @royalsociety report out TODAY
Evidence shows COVID measures together = EFFECTIVE
Key findings:
➡️Distancing/lockdowns=MOST EFFECTIVE measure
😷 FACEMASKS consistently found to be EFFECTIVE
➡️Strong evidence for contact tracing apps
royalsociety.org/topics-poli…
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Cath Lewis retweeted
15 Aug 2023
Some lessons for newly-forming large research consortia from @db_associates / @bates_g
i2insights.org/2023/08/15/le…
Reminds me of @PROTECT_NCS
@AshtonInstitute @CSA_HSE @CathLewis8 @CathNoakes @Sarah_Rhodes1 @AMBS_OrgPsych @UoM_COEH @IOMworld @martevt @TFarragher
15 Aug 2023
Trying to make a new research consortium work? See these lessons from Daniel Black & Geoff Bates in i2insights.org/2023/08/15/le… [i2insights.org] @_CStockton @ruthlady @UoMPankhurst @ResEngland @Translation_Mcr @ManchesterBRC @UoMNews @INSciTS
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Cath Lewis retweeted
9 Aug 2023
Are you interested in a profession that protects communities and promotes healthy lives? Have you considered Public Health? @ManchesterMPH offers a super BSc. Read more here manchester.ac.uk/study/under… #PublicHealth #Clearing #UCAS
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