John Ford

Dr.John Ford, Academic Clinical Fellow in Public Health University of East Anglia Norwich Medical School, Norwich

Biography

Dr.John Ford is a Public Health registrar (medically qualified) with research interests in older people's health services research and inequalities. He is particularly interested in research which makes a difference to patients and the public. His research skills include evidence synthesis, meta-analysis, indirect comparison, cohort analysis and service evaluation. He is currently a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care. His fellowship will look at how deprived older people from rural areas access primary care. The first two years will be spent generating theory based on a realist review, cohort analysis of ELSA using structural equation modelling and semi-structured interviews/focus groups. This will lead to the development of a new intervention. The second two years will be spent undertaking a feasibilty study of the new intervention.