Dr Mark Strong BSc MBChB MPH MSc MRCPCH MFPH
Address
Dr Mark Strong
Section of Public Health
School of Health and Related Research
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Tel: 0114 222 0812
Fax: 0114 272 4095
email: m [dot] strong [at] sheffield [dot] ac [dot] uk
Biography
I joined ScHARR at the University of Sheffield as a clinical lecturer in public health in 2006. Prior to this I was based in the public health directorate at NHS Rotherham.
Research interests
My general interest is in methods for quantifying the health effects of broad public health level interventions. During a recent Medical Research Council Fellowship in Health Services / Public Health Research I worked with Jeremy Oakley in the School of Mathematics and Statistics (SOMAS) and Jim Chilcott in ScHARR on methods for managing uncertainty in health economic decision models. Our approach is similar in flavour to work that has emerged from the Managing Uncertainty in Complex Models project, and relates to a number of themes being pursued by the ScHARR / SOMAS collaboration CHEBS (the Centre for Bayesian Statistics in Health Economics).
You can read more our discrepancy based method for managing model uncertainty in this paper in JRSS Series C, and in this ScHARR Discussion Paper.
We have also proposed an efficient method for computing partial EVPI. The method is explained in this paper submitted to Medical Decision Making, and an R function to implement the method can be downloaded here.
Teaching interests
I teach on the Master in Public Health and undergraduate medical MB ChB degrees, and offer MFPH exam support to the Yorkshire and Humber public health training scheme.
I am interested in hearing from students who wish to use quantitative methods in their MPH, MPhil or BMedSci related projects, and particularly from those students with an interest in public health GIS or public health decision analysis.
Professional activities
I sit on the NICE NHS Evidence Advisory Committee, the independent body that makes recommendations on the accreditation of producers of authoritative evidence for use within the NHS (see link).
Recently, I've become involved in the Partnership Board that oversees the National Diabetes Audit for adults in England and Wales. The NDA is the largest annual clinical audit in the world, and provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the care of adults with diabetes.
I am a member of the University of Sheffield Senate.
Current and recent projects
- Medical Research Council HSR HoP Research Training Fellowship. Modelling the costs, health consequences and impact on inequalities of a population level health promoting intervention (Personal Fellowship - £261,849; Sept 2007 - Dec 2011).
- Department of Health. Evaluating PCT and practice based commissioning: identifying which commissioning processes produce successful outcomes. (PI Alicia O'Cathain - £495,119; Nov 2008 - Oct 2011)
Key publications
- Strong M, Oakley JE, Chilcott, J. Managing structural uncertainty in health economic decision models: a discrepancy approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C. 2012;61(1):25-45
- Sampson F, O’Cathain A, Strong M, Pickin M, Esmonde L. Commissioning processes in primary care trusts: A repeated cross sectional survey of health care commissioners in England. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 2012;17(S1):31-39
- Kharroubi SA, Brennan A, Strong M. Estimating expected value of sample information for incomplete data models using Bayesian approximation. Medical Decision Making. 2011;31(6):839-852. doi: 10.1177/0272989X11399920
- Relton C, Strong M, Li J. The "Pounds for Pounds" weight loss financial incentive scheme: an evaluation of a pilot in NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent. Journal of Public Health. 2011;33(4):536-542. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdr030
- Strong M, Oakley JE. Bayesian inference for comorbid disease risks using marginal disease risks and correlation information from a separate source. Medical Decision Making 2011;31(4):571-581. doi: 10.1177/0272989X10391269
- Strong M. Coalition plans for English NHS: A poisoned chalice? BMJ 2010;341:c4179
- Strong M, Burrows J, Stedman E, Redgrave P. Adverse drug effects following oseltamivir mass treatment and prophylaxis in a school outbreak of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) in June 2009, Sheffield, United Kingdom. Eurosurveillance 2010;15(19):pii=19565
- Strong M, South G, Carlisle R. The UK Quality and Outcomes Framework pay-for-performance scheme and spirometry: rewarding quality or just quantity? A cross-sectional study in Rotherham, UK. BMC Health Services Research 2009;9:108
- Strong M, Maheswaran R, Pearson T, Fryers P. A method for modelling GP practice level deprivation scores using GIS. International Journal of Health Geographics 2007;6:38
- Strong M, Johnstone PW. Interventions for treating scabies. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: Reviews 2007 Issue 3: CD000320.
- Walker O, Strong M, Atchinson R, Saunders J, Abbott J. A qualitative study of primary care clinicians' views of treating childhood obesity. BMC Family Practice 2007;8:50
- Strong M, Maheswaran R, Pearson T. A comparison of methods for calculating general practice level socioeconomic deprivation. International Journal of Health Geographics 2006;5:29