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Dr Antiopi Ntouva

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Dr Antiopi Ntouva (RD, PhD, MPH, FFPH)

Honorary Senior Lecturer in Public Health
E: A.Ntouva@bsms.ac.uk
Location: Watson building, Falmer, BN1 9PH

Area of expertise: Public Health

Research areas: Diet and Obesity, Alcohol, Evaluation, Prevention and Health Inequalities

Preferred gender pronouns: She/her

Biography

Antiopi Ntouva is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She is a consultant in Public Health at the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) in the South East region and is currently on a 12-month secondment as Deputy Director of Public Health at the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM).

Antiopi has extensive experience in education and training, including her role as public health training lead for OHID South East and currently as the workforce development lead at RBWM. She is an Educational Supervisor for public health trainees and has been actively involved in curriculum development, postgraduate and undergraduate teaching and supervising postgraduate dissertations.

Her academic and professional interests centre on strengthening the public health workforce, leadership development, and applied public health. She is currently completing a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education at the University of Cambridge to further enhance her expertise in teaching and training.

Research

Antiopi’s research background spans nutrition, health improvement, and health inequalities. She completed her PhD in Nutrition at the University of Brighton and worked for 5 years as a researcher at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL, focusing on dental public health. She was an academic public health fellow during her training in the West Midlands and was involved in a range of research activity, including quantitative analysis of large datasets, health protection topics and service evaluation.

She is particularly interested in applied public health research that informs policy and practice, with a focus on evaluation and reducing health inequalities.

Teaching

Antiopi contributes to the MSc in Public Health at BSMS, where she teaches, supervises dissertations, and supports curriculum development, as well as delivering teaching to the MSc in Dental Public Health at University College London (UCL).

She is also actively involved in postgraduate public health training, providing educational supervision for registrars and population health fellows, and leading training and continuous professional development activities for the wider public health workforce in the South East. Her teaching focuses on diet and obesity, alcohol, health inequalities, evaluation and the application of evidence into practice.

Selected publications

Cowan, K., Fulop, N.J., Harshfield, A, Ng, L.P, Ntouva, A et al. (2021) Rapid prioritisation of topics for rapid evaluation: the case of innovations in adult social care and social work. Health Res Policy Sys 19, 34

Ntouva A, Toulis T.A, Keerthy D, Adderley NJ, Hanif W, Thayakaran R, Gokhale K, Tahrani A, Nirantharakumar K. (2019) Hypoglycaemia is associated with increased risk of fractures in patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A retrospective cohort study Eur J Endocrinol. Jan 1;180(1):51-58.

Ntouva A, Porter J, Crawford M, Britton A, Gratus C, Newton T, Tsakos G, Heilmann A, Pikhart H, Watt RG. (2019) Alcohol screening and brief advice in NHS general dental practices: a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial. Alcohol and Alcoholism, agz017 1–8

Ntouva A, Balogun K, Mandal S, Harding N, Sibal B. (2019) Hepatitis A in primary care - diagnosis is vital and managing in partnership prevents outbreaks. British Journal of General Practice; 69 (687): 521-522.

Ntouva A, Sanatinia R, Watt RG. (2018) Evaluation of an alcohol screening and brief advice training programme for NHS general dental practitioners. Eur J Dent Educ. Feb;22(1):34-39.

Murphy M, Porter J, Yusuf H, Ntouva A, Newton T, Kolliakou A, Crawley H, Tsakos G, Pikhart H, Watt RG. (2013) Considerations and lessons learned from designing a motivational interviewing obesity intervention for young people attending dental practices: A study protocol paper. Contemp Clin Trials. Jun 28;36(1):126-134.

Ntouva A, Tsakos G, Watt RG.(2013) Sugars consumption in a low-income sample of British young people and adults.Br Dent J. Jul 12;215(1):E2