Professor Peymané Adab MD, MPH, MBChB, FFPH, FHKCCM

Professor Peymané Adab

Institute of Applied Health Research
Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology & Public Health

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3777
Fax
+44 (0)121 414 7878
Email
p.adab@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@Peymane_Adab
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Address
College of Medical and Dental Sciences
Murray Learning Centre
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham, B15 2TT

Peymané has been Professor of Public Health at the University of Birmingham since 2013 and leads the Chronic Disease Management Team in the Institute of Applied Health Research. Over the last 18 years she has developed a national and international portfolio of work in public health and chronic disease epidemiology, focusing on prevention and behavioural medicine. This includes programmes on obesity prevention and management, particularly in children and minority ethnic groups, as well as research on the epidemiology, early identification and management of COPD.  She has expertise in using mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative studies) to aid the development and evaluation of complex interventions.

Peymané also takes an active role in teaching, having previously been director of the Graduate Entry Course in Medicine, and deputy director of the Birmingham MPH course.

Qualifications

  • Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health (2007)
  • MD, University of Birmingham (2002)
  • Fellowship of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine (1999)
  • MPH, University of Birmingham (1996)
  • MBChB, University of Liverpool (1990)

Teaching

Teaching Programmes

Postgraduate supervision

Peymané Adab’s research interests are twofold, including behavioural epidemiology (specifically childhood obesity prevention) and chronic disease epidemiology (focusing on the epidemiology of COPD). She holds major grants in these areas from the National Institute for Health Research and, in the past, from the Medical Research Council.

Professor Adab has successfully supervised five PhD students in the last few years, who have moved on to academic careers. She currently supervises four PhD students working in childhood obesity prevention and COPD epidemiology.

Research

Chronic disease epidemiology

Specifically: a) Behavioural medicine, focusing on childhood obesity prevention

b) Epidemiology of COPD

Other activities

Funding Boards:

  • Member of NIHR PHR Funding Board (2014-2020); deputy director from 2017
  • Member of ERS Standing Evaluation Committee for the review of fellowship applications (2013-17)
  • Member of NIHR RfPB committee, West Midlands (June 2009 – 2013)

Expert advisor:

  • Expert advisor to the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
  • Topic expert committee member for NICE Public Health Advisory Committee “Maintaining a healthy weight and preventing excess weight gain among children and adults” (2014-15)
  • Expert member on NICE Programme Development group on “Lifestyle weight management services for overweight and obese children and young people” (2012-2013)

Other Professional/expert roles:

  • Trustee for the Association for the Study of Obesity (ASO), UK (2014-2017)
  • Member of Cardiovascular Health Working Group, Faculty of Public Health (2008-2011) 

Clinical/monitoring:

  • Clinical appraiser for PHE
  • Chair TSC for NIHR funded Action 330, Bristol University (2017-18)
  • Chair TSC for NIHR funded fellowship, Leeds University – the HENRY study (2015-2018)
  • Chair Data Monitoring Committee for NIHR funded trial “Families for Health” Warwick University (2012-2015)
  • South Birmingham Local Research Ethics Committee (2004-2008)

Teaching related:

  • External panel member for Foundation degree programme development (Public Health in Practice) – Ipswich University, 2009
  • External examiner for UWE MSc in Public Health (2008 to 2012)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Pan, Z, Dickens, A, Chi, C, Kong, X, Enocson, A, Adab, P, Cheng, KK, Sitch, A, Jowett, S & Jordan, R 2020, 'A study to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different screening strategies for identifying undiagnosed COPD amongst residents (≥40 years) in four cities in China: protocol for a multicenter cross-sectional study. On behalf of the Breathe Well group', BMJ open.

Dickens, A, Fitzmaurice, D, Adab, P, Sitch, A, Riley, RD, Enocson, A & Jordan, R 2020, 'Accuracy of Vitalograph lung monitor as a screening test for COPD in primary care', NPJ Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-019-0158-2

Adab, P, Jordan, R, Fitzmaurice, D, Ayres, J, Cheng, KK, Cooper, B, Daley, A, Dickens, A, Enocson, A, Greenfield, S, Haroon, S, Jolly, K, Jowett, S, Lambe, T, Martin, J, Miller, M, Rai, K, Riley, RD, Sadhra, S, Sitch, A, Siebert, S, Stockley, RA & Turner, A 2020, 'Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care; from case finding to improving patient outcomes: the Birmingham Lung Improvement Studies (BLISS) research programme', ERO .

Jordan, R, Adab, P & Cheng, KK 2020, 'Covid-19: risk factors for severe disease and death A long list is emerging from largely unadjusted analyses, with age near the top', BMJ. https://doi.org/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/368/mar26_11/m1198

Breheny, K, Passmore, S, Adab, P, Martin, J, Hemming, K, Lancashire, E & Frew, E 2020, 'Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Daily Mile on childhood weight outcomes and wellbeing: a cluster randomised controlled trial', International Journal of Obesity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-019-0511-0

Gjorgjievski, D, Ristovska, R, Stavrikj, K, Farley, A, Adab, P, Adams, R, Dickens, A, Enocson, A, Stanoevski, G, Gale, N, Jowett, S, Rai, K, Sitch, A, Stamenova, A, Krstevska, E & Jordan, R 2020, 'Effectiveness of combining feedback about lung age or exhaled carbon monoxide levels with Very Brief Advice (VBA) and support for smoking cessation in primary care compared to giving VBA and support alone – protocol for a randomized controlled trial within the Breathe Well research program', Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences, vol. 8, no. E, pp. 28-36. https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2020.4519

Singhal, J, Herd, C, Adab, P & Pallan, M 2020, 'Effectiveness of school-based interventions to prevent obesity among children aged 4 to 12 years old in middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Obesity Reviews.

Watson, J, Adab, P, Jordan, R, Enocson, A & Greenfield, S 2020, 'Referral of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to pulmonary rehabilitation: a qualitative study of barriers and enablers for primary healthcare practitioners', British Journal of General Practice , pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp20X708101

Keene , SJ, Adab, P, de Vries, F, Franssen, FME, Sitch, A, Martin, J, Marshall, T & Jordan, R 2020, 'The stability of the ADO score among UK COPD patients from The Health Improvement Network', ERJ Open Research.

Rai, K, Dogra, S, Barber, S, Adab, P & Summerbell, C 2019, 'A scoping review and systematic mapping of health promotion interventions associated with obesity in Islamic religious settings in the UK', Obesity Reviews, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 1231-1261. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12874

Zanganeh, M, Adab, P, Li, B & Frew, E 2019, 'A systematic review of methods, study quality, and results of economic evaluation for childhood and adolescent obesity intervention', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 16, no. 3, 485. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030485, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030485

Jolly, K, Griffin, T, Sidhu, M, Adab, P, Burgess, A, Collins, C, Daley, A, Entwistle, A, Frew, E, Hardy, P, Hurley, K, Jones, L, Mcgee, E, Pallan, M, Sun, Y, Young, M & Morgan, P 2019, 'A weight management programme for fathers: cultural adaptation of Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids UK and feasibility RCT', Public Health Research.

Pan, J, Adab, P, Jiang, CQ, Zhang, WS, Zhu, X-F, Jin, YL, Thomas, GN & Lam, TH 2019, 'All-cause and cause-specific mortality from restrictive and obstructive spirometric patterns in Chinese adults with and without dyspnea: Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study', Respiratory Medicine, vol. 151, pp. 66-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2019.04.002, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2019.04.002

Comment/debate

Jordan, R & Adab, P 2020, 'Who is most likely to be infected with SARS-CoV-2?', The Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30395-9

Editorial

Jordan, RE, Adab, P & Cheng, KK 2020, 'Covid-19: risk factors for severe disease and death', BMJ, vol. 2020, no. 368, m1198. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1198

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