Dr Louise Preston

My interests lie primarily in undertaking evidence reviews of health service interventions, specifically in service delivery areas such as care of older people, emergency department care and medication administration. I am also interested in the science underpinning evidence review methodology.

I am a co-investigator on a number of large evidence synthesis grants and have led a variety of different reviews for organisations including the NIHR Ensygn Centre, the HS&DR Evidence Synthesis Centre, the What Works Centre for Wellbeing and the SCHARR Public Health Collaborating Centre and have been involved in a number of publications from this work. I have also published on methods relating to searching. 

From my prior research projects, I maintain an interest in health services research with a particular interest in information use by patients and carers. I obtained my PhD in 2005 from the University of Sheffield. It examined the impact of the MMR vaccine scare on parents in terms of their decision-making and information requirements.