Topics and disciplines
Below are the main thematic areas I continue to work in. Do not hesitate to get in touch if yours is different but transferrable skills are relevant.
- digital health and innovation implementation
- global health, humanitarian and disaster relief work (studies with refugees, in resource- limited settings, conflicts and humanitarian emergencies; ethical issues; COVID-19; main projects in Bangladesh, Gaza, Tanzania, Uganda)
- communication and coordination across services using digital tools, particularly aiming at health care integration
- evidence identification and evidence synthesis
- palliative and end of life care
- complex interventions; interventions in complex and dynamic contexts
- new professional roles and workplace relations
- patient and community engagement and involvement
Below are topics in which I've done practical but not research work (e.g. as a psychologist) or in which my research is too recent or too dated (but still of interest):
- health systems complexity, resilience and strengthening
- trauma and PTSD
- suicide prevention
- difficult conversations and interpersonal conflict management
- cross-cultural communication
- emotional regulation
- psychosomatics and mind-body interactions
The most important research and evaluation topic - you!
I also support individuals who want to heal themselves, find a way out, get unstuck, grow by systematically researching their challenges. For instance, I can:
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Teach you about highly efficient literature searching strategies in medical and health databases, such as PubMed. I've written a manual on literature searching in bibliographic databases.
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Show you resources you can use in appraising the quality of studies - so that you know how much you can trust a body of evidence. Not all research is created equal.
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Guide you in developing your own study design.
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Help you share the findings of your personal research in peer-reviewed journals, if you so wish - it's both easier and times more difficult than you think!