Professor Kate Jolly MBChB, MSc, PhD, FFPH

Institute of Applied Health Research
Professor of Public Health and Primary Care
Deputy Director of the Institute of Applied Health Research

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 7552
Telephone (2): PA: Anne Walker +44 (0)121 414 7578
Email: c.b.jolly@bham.ac.uk

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Address: Murray Learning Centre
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Kate Jolly is a Professor of Public Health and Primary Care.

Her main research interests are on the prevention and management of important non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular and respiratory conditions; behaviour change to reduce obesity and increase physical activity and maternal and child health.

Staff details
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Qualifications

Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health 2018
PhD in Public Health 2008
Membership of the Faculty of Public Health 1998
MSc in Public Health Medicine 1992
Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners 1990
MBChB 1986

Biography

Kate Jolly qualified in medicine from Bristol University in 1986. She firstly trained in general practice, then in public health medicine. Her academic training took place at the Universities of Southampton and Birmingham. Kate completed her training in public health in 1999 and became a senior lecturer in 2004. In 2011 she took on the role of clinical lead for public health in the School of Health and Population Sciences and was promoted to chair in 2012.

Teaching

Teaching Programmes

Postgraduate supervision

Kate is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:

Behavioural change programmes for rehabilitation and self-management of long-term conditions, and primary prevention of disease in the whole population and minority ethnic groups
Evaluation of lay or peer support or home-based interventions.
Interventions to support breastfeeding.

Research

Maternal and child health

Work in this field has involved the use of high quality study designs to evaluate service innovations in maternity and child health services. Completed studies include:

A randomised controlled trial (RCT) of a pregnancy outreach worker service to see whether it improves antenatal care engagement, psychological health and infant outcomes of multi-ethnic women with social risk.
An RCT of the effectiveness of physical activity for reducing postnatal depression.
An RCT trial of preventing obesity in pregnancy (POPS).
An RCT of a breastfeeding peer support service on breastfeeding initiation and continuation rates (HoBBIT).
Systematic reviews on the effects of peer support on breastfeeding peer support and the effectiveness and safety of interventions to limit weight gain in overweight and obese pregnant women.

Population-based behaviour change

Completed trials include:

Self-management for COPD in primary care: RCT of telephone coaching for people with mildly symptomatic COPD.
Rehabilitation Enablement in Chronic Heart Failure. (Led by Professors Rod Taylor and Hayes Dalal, University of Exeter and Royal Cornwall Hospital - NIHR Programme Grant)
RCT evaluating the effectiveness of a range of commercial and NHS provided weight management

Other activities

Honorary clinical contract held with Public Health England.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Retat, L, Pimpin, L, Webber, L, Jaccard, A, Lewis, A, Tearne, S, Hood, K, Christian-Brown, A, Adab, P, Begh, R, Jolly, K, Daley, A, Farley, A, Lycett, D, Nickless, A, Yu, L-M, Jebb, S & Aveyard, P 2019, 'Screening and brief intervention for obesity in primary care: cost-effectiveness analysis in the BWeL trial', International Journal of Obesity, vol. 43, no. 10, pp. 2066-2075. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-018-0295-7

Clarke, J, Ingram, J, Johnson , D, Tricky, H, Dombrowski, SU, Sitch, A, Dykes , F, Feltham, M, MacArthur, C, Roberts, T, Hoddinott, P & Jolly, K 2019, 'The Assets-based infant feeding help Before and After birth (ABA) intervention for improving breastfeeding initiation and continuation: feasibility study results', Maternal and Child Nutrition.

Jones, L, Danks, E, Clarke, J, Alidu, L, Costello, B, Jolly, K, Byrne, A, Fassam-Wright, M, Latthe, P & Taylor, J 2019, 'Exploring the views of female genital mutilation survivors, their male partners and healthcare professionals on the timing of deinfibulation surgery and NHS FGM care provision (the FGM Sister Study): protocol for a qualitative study', BMJ open.

Daley, A, Jolly, K, Jebb, S, Roalfe, A, Mackillop, L, Lewis, A, Clifford, S, Usman, MUHAMMAD, Ohadike, CO, Kenyon, S, MacArthur, C & Aveyard, P 2019, 'Effectiveness of a behavioural intervention involving regular weighing and feedback by community midwives within routine antenatal care to prevent excessive gestational weight gain: POPS2 randomised controlled trial', BMJ open, vol. 9, no. 9, e030174. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030174

Jolly, K, Sidhu, M, Bower, P, Madurasinghe, VW & MRC START Group 2019, 'Improving recruitment to a study of telehealth management for COPD: a cluster randomised controlled study-within-a-trial (SWAT) of a multimedia information resource', Trials, vol. 20, 453. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3496-z

Pallan, M, Griffin, T, Hurley, K, Lancashire, E, Blissett, J, Frew, E, Gill, P, Griffith, L, Jolly, K, Mcgee, E, Parry, J, Thompson, J & Adab, P 2019, 'Cultural adaptation of a children's weight management programme: Child weigHt mANaGement for Ethnically diverse communities (CHANGE) study', BMC Public Health, vol. 19, 848. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7159-5

Crowe, F, Jolly, K, MacArthur, C, Manaseki-Holland, S, Gittoes, N, Hewison, M, Scragg, R & Nirantharakumar, K 2019, 'Trends in the incidence of testing for vitamin D deficiency in primary care in the UK: a retrospective analysis of The Health Improvement Network (THIN), 2005-2015', BMJ open, vol. 9, no. 6, e028355. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028355

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.

Wingham, J, Frost, J, Britten, N, Greaves, C, Abraham, C, Warren, FC, Jolly, K, Miles, J, Paul, K, Doherty, PJ, Singh, S, Davies, R, Noonan, M, Dalal, H & Taylor, RS 2019, 'Caregiver outcomes of the REACH-HF multicentre randomized controlled trial of home-based rehabilitation for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction', European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474515119850011

Clarke, J, Ingram, J, Johnson, D, Thomson, G, Trickey, H, Dombrowski, SU, Sitch, A, Dykes, F, Feltham, M, MacArthur, C, Roberts, T, Hoddinott, P & Jolly, K 2019, 'Assets-based infant feeding help before and after birth: a randomised controlled feasibility trial for improving breastfeeding initiation and continuation', Public Health Research.

krouwel, M, Jolly, K & Greenfield, S 2019, 'How do people with refractory irritable bowel syndrome perceive Hypnotherapy? : qualitative study', Complementary Therapies in Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctim.2019.05.020

Frost, J, Wingham, J, Britten, N, Greaves, C, Abraham, C, Warren, FC, Jolly, K, Doherty, P, Miles , J, Singh, S, Paul, K, taylor, RS & Dalal, HM 2019, 'Home-based rehabilitation for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: Mixed methods process evaluation of the REACH-HF multicentre randomised controlled trial', BMJ open.

Taylor, RS, Wingham, J, Frost, J, Britten, N, Greaves, C, Abraham, C, Warren, FC, Jolly, K, Miles , J, Paul, K, Doherty, PJ, Singh, S, Davies, R, Noonan, M & Dalal, HM 2019, 'Caregiver outcomes of the REACH-HF multicenter randomized controlled trial of homebased rehabilitation for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction', European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

ExTraMATCH II Collaboration 2019, 'Impact of exercise rehabilitation on exercise capacity and quality-of-life in heart failure: individual participant meta-analysis', Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol. 73, no. 12, pp. 1430-1443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2018.12.072

Abstract

Pallan, M, Griffin, T, Hurley, K, Lancashire, E, Blissett, J, Frew, E, Griffith, L, Hemming, K, Jolly, K, Mcgee, E, Thompson, J, Jackson, L, Gill, P, Parry, J & Adab, P 2019, 'Cultural adaptation of an existing children's weight management programme: the CHANGE intervention and feasibility RCT', Health Technology Assessment, vol. 23, no. 33. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta23330