Dr Hannah Jordan
BSc(hons), MSc, PhD, PGDip. FHEA
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Senior University Teacher in Public Health
MPH Program Director
+44 114 222 1722
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Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
2037, 2nd Floor
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
- Profile
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I joined ScHARR in 2013 as a Lecturer in Public Health, with responsibility for the Epidemiology module on the Master of Public Health (MPH) and MPH Distance Learning programmes.
I am the Programme Director for the Master of Public Health (MPH) programme, with specific responsibilities around the restructuring of the programme in line with the Programme Led Approach. I am also the ScHARR lead for the Master of Public Health International Development (MPH-ID), a shared programme between ScHARR and the Geography Department.
Following a first degree in Geography at the University of Sheffield (1992), I began my academic career as a Researcher within the School of Medicine, University of Southampton. Building on a growing interest in health research, I completed an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1999) and won an NHS Regional Research Fellowship to undertake a PhD looking at access to health services and rural deprivation, jointly supervised across the Schools of Medicine and Geography at the University of Southampton (2005).
I joined the Yorkshire and Humber Public Health training programme in 2005, working in the NHS in Rotherham and Sheffield. Having completed the Faculty of Public Health membership exams, I chose to specialise in academic public health, following my interests in epidemiology and the spatial and built environment.
I have chosen to focus on a teaching specialism within the University, and was awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2015.
- Research interests
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- Member of the ScHARR Pedagogical research group
- Member of the ScHARR Health and the Environment research group
- Member of the ScHARR team working on the NIHR 'Ageing Well' theme
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Exploring the factors that influence the public health impact of changes to the traditional housing officer’s role : insights from a logic modelling approach. Journal of Public Health. View this article in WRRO
- Associations between the combined physical activity environment, socioeconomic status, and obesity: a cross-sectional study. Perspectives in Public Health, 138(3), 169-172. View this article in WRRO
- Access and quality of parks and associations with obesity: A cross-sectional study. SSM - Population Health, 3, 722-729. View this article in WRRO
- What are older smokers’ attitudes to quitting and how are they managed in primary care? An analysis of the cross-sectional English Smoking Toolkit Study. BMJ Open, 7(11), e018150-e018150. View this article in WRRO
- Identifying inequitable healthcare in older people: systematic review of current research practice. International Journal for Equity in Health, 16. View this article in WRRO
- What factors facilitate the engagement with flipped classrooms used in the preparation for postgraduate medical membership examinations?. Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 8, 419-426. View this article in WRRO
- How different data sources and definitions of neighbourhood influence the association between food outlet availability and body mass index: a cross-sectional study. Perspectives in Public Health, 137(3), 158-161. View this article in WRRO
- Value of urban green spaces in promoting healthy living and wellbeing: prospects for planning. Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 8, 131-137. View this article in WRRO
- Taking the bus: incorporating public transport timetable data into health care accessibility modelling. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE, 40(10), 2510-2525.
- Will Rogers revisited: prospective observational study of survival of 3592 patients with colorectal cancer according to number of nodes examined by pathologists.. Br J Cancer, 95(7), 841-847. View this article in WRRO
- Socioeconomic deprivation, travel distance, location of service, and uptake of breast cancer screening in North Derbyshire, UK.. J Epidemiol Community Health, 60(3), 208-212.
- The Index of Multiple Deprivation 2000 and accessibility effects on health.. J Epidemiol Community Health, 58(3), 250-257.
All publications
Journal articles
- Exploring the factors that influence the public health impact of changes to the traditional housing officer’s role : insights from a logic modelling approach. Journal of Public Health. View this article in WRRO
- Fast-food outlet availability and obesity: Considering variation by age and methodological diversity in 22,889 Yorkshire Health Study participants. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 28, 43-53. View this article in WRRO
- Associations between the combined physical activity environment, socioeconomic status, and obesity: a cross-sectional study. Perspectives in Public Health, 138(3), 169-172. View this article in WRRO
- Neighbourhood typologies and associations with body mass index and obesity: A cross-sectional study. Preventive Medicine. View this article in WRRO
- Access and quality of parks and associations with obesity: A cross-sectional study. SSM - Population Health, 3, 722-729. View this article in WRRO
- What are older smokers’ attitudes to quitting and how are they managed in primary care? An analysis of the cross-sectional English Smoking Toolkit Study. BMJ Open, 7(11), e018150-e018150. View this article in WRRO
- Identifying inequitable healthcare in older people: systematic review of current research practice. International Journal for Equity in Health, 16. View this article in WRRO
- What factors facilitate the engagement with flipped classrooms used in the preparation for postgraduate medical membership examinations?. Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 8, 419-426. View this article in WRRO
- How different data sources and definitions of neighbourhood influence the association between food outlet availability and body mass index: a cross-sectional study. Perspectives in Public Health, 137(3), 158-161. View this article in WRRO
- Value of urban green spaces in promoting healthy living and wellbeing: prospects for planning. Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 8, 131-137. View this article in WRRO
- Taking the bus: incorporating public transport timetable data into health care accessibility modelling. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE, 40(10), 2510-2525.
- Will Rogers revisited: prospective observational study of survival of 3592 patients with colorectal cancer according to number of nodes examined by pathologists.. Br J Cancer, 95(7), 841-847. View this article in WRRO
- Socioeconomic deprivation, travel distance, location of service, and uptake of breast cancer screening in North Derbyshire, UK.. J Epidemiol Community Health, 60(3), 208-212.
- The Index of Multiple Deprivation 2000 and accessibility effects on health.. J Epidemiol Community Health, 58(3), 250-257.
- Distance, rurality and the need for care: access to health services in South West England.. Int J Health Geogr, 3(1), 21. View this article in WRRO
- Inequalities in survival from colorectal cancer: a comparison of the impact of deprivation, treatment, and host factors on observed and cause specific survival.. J Epidemiol Community Health, 57(4), 301-309.
- Interrelations between three proxies of health care need at the small area level: an urban/rural comparison.. J Epidemiol Community Health, 56(10), 754-761.
- Trends in demand for emergency ambulance services in Wiltshire over nine years: observational study.. BMJ, 324(7338), 646-647.
- Increasing the sophistication of access measurement in a rural healthcare study.. Health Place, 8(1), 3-13.
- Appropriateness of use of emergency ambulances. JOURNAL OF ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 15(4), 212-215.
Conference proceedings papers
- P26 Associations between typologies of neighbourhood environments and associations with obesity: a cross-sectional study. SSM annual scientific meeting 2017
- P40 Wild at Heart: A mixed method evaluation of a wildlife-related intervention for older people. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, Vol. 70(Suppl 1) (pp A71-A71), 14 September 2016 - 16 September 2016. View this article in WRRO
- P56 Associations between the physical activity and food environment and obesity: a cross sectional study of UK adults. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Vol. 70(Suppl 1) (pp A78.2-A78)
- Research group
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PhD Students
- Edet Otu
- Liran Lee
- Teaching interests
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I have been the lead for the HAR619 Epidemiology module since 2014, delivering the majority of the teaching and co-ordinating assessment and supplementary lecturing support on this large (>100 student) core module. I also deputise on HAR6048, Epidemiology Online, and provide public health teaching on the MbChB degree.
My epidemiological teaching is focused on developing students' deep understanding of the core principles of epidemiology, along with a set of transferable skills in interpreting epidemiological data. I have particular interests in teaching methods that support learning for those who find mathematics difficult and in developing effective techniques for communicating complex concepts in lecture settings and though online materials.
Dissertation supervision is an important part of my role. In addition to supporting the development and application of students’ quantitative analytical skills, I have a strong focus on the development of critical thinking and reflection around the process and outcomes of a research project. I also work with staff to develop and update dissertation supervision skills through workshops and one-to-one support, sharing information and advice on best practice, and establishing peer-support networks for new supervisors.
In addition to my ScHARR teaching, I teach epidemiology to public health colleagues and psychiatry registrars preparing for their professional exams, focusing material on discipline specific examples and the requirements of professional exam boards.
- Professional activities and memberships
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External examiner for online Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh.