Professor Julie Mytton

Julie is Professor of Public Health at the University of the West of England and Deputy Director at the Centre for Academic Child Health. She worked in primary care and community paediatrics before training in public health and working as a Consultant in Child Public Health in Bristol until 2015.

Julie’s research focuses on the health and wellbeing of children and young people, and the impact of social and environmental factors that lead to inequalities in health experience and outcomes. Her research has concentrated on the prevention of injuries, first response to trauma, and the development of health systems that support injury prevention. Since 2016, much of this work has focused on the building the evidence base and strengthening research capacity to inform injury prevention and policy development in low- and middle-income countries, where the greatest burden of injury occurs.

Current projects include:

Understand child road deaths in England – This study is funded by the Road Safety Trust. We are using the National Child Mortality Dataset to analyse multi-agency records of all child deaths on England’s roads between 2019 and 2024. The findings will be used to co-develop actionable recommendations.

SafeTrip Nepal – An NIHR funded programme of research that applies a ‘safe systems’ approach to road safety in Nepal. Working with the colleagues at the Nepal Injury Research Centre in Kathmandu, we are exploring ways to improve road safety policy, enhance long distance bus transport safety, and improve outcomes for crash victims. Prevention of concussion in youth sport – As part of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre on Brain Injury, Julie co-leads the prevention and education theme and supervises a PhD student exploring ways to prevent concussion in women’s contact sports. Sonamoni – An NIHR funded study to co-develop interventions with rural communities in Bangladesh to prevent drowning in children under the age of two. This study is led by the University of Bournemouth and the Centre for Injury Prevention Research Bangladesh, in conjunction with UWE, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and the University of Southampton.

Recently completed projects:

Establishment of the Nepal Injury Research Centre at Kathmandu Medical College, Nepal - This programme of research was funded through an NIHR Global Health Research Group award between 2017-2021. A full list of outputs is available via our NIHR award page and on-going studies at the NIRC can be found on our website.