
Dr Christie Cabral
B.Sc.(Bristol), M.Res.(UCL), Ph.D.(Sur.)
Current positions
Senior Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
Christie Cabral is a social anthropologist working in primary care, social care and global health. She conducts research with the Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC) and the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Behavioural Science and Evaluation. She is co-leadof the Bristol hub for the NIHR South West Research Design Service (SW-RDS).
Christie has worked on health, social care and international development research for over 25 years. Her current research interests include illness beliefs, health behaviours and health inequalities in primary care and global health contexts. Her most recent work in the field of overuse of antibiotics in primary care has been highly cited internationally and informed the development of antibiotic stewardship interventions nationally and internationally.
Christie worked with groups of parents from diverse backgrounds to co-produce resources to help parents care for children with respiratory tract infections including an information website for parents (http://child-cough.bristol.ac.uk/) and the “Caring for Children with Cough” leaflet which has been incorporated into Public Health England & RCGP TARGET antibiotic toolkit resource list. Christie also led the development of a training video for clinicians on what parents want from a consultation for their child's cough, based on the findings of her National School for Primary Care funded research. The video has been watched over 3,000 times on YouTube and incorporated into Public Health England & RCGP TARGET Antibiotic Training Webinar hosted by the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Christie has methodological expertise in conducting primary qualitative studies, using qualitative methods to design interventions, conducting evaluations within trials and synthesising qualitative evidence. She has been PI or Co-I (leading workstreams) on external research grants totalling £8.6M. Most recent research has focussed on the management of infectious disease and antimicrobial stewardship (in UK and China), with additional projects on digital health, health inequalities and social care. She teaches qualitative methods and leads units/short courses on qualitative evidence synthesis, meta-ethnography and anthropology and global health.
Christie currently has two PhD students. One is investigating variation in antenatal vaccination rates, with a focus on understanding inequitable access. One is investigating the use of CAM in management of dairy herds and its role in antibiotic sparing. Christie has previously supervised two PhD students to completion and taken on the role of internal examiner for others.
Christie is Associate Editor (Qualitative synthesis) for Research Synthesis Methods.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Evaluation of patient access to medical test result services in General Practice
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Patients are increasingly being offered the opportunity to access their
medical test results electronically through online access. This could
benefit both patients and GP practices, by patients being able to access
the information…Managing organisational unit
Dates
16/04/2018 to 16/04/2020
A clinical effectiveness investigation of a multi-faceted intervention (incorporating a prognostic algorithm) to improve management of antibiotics for CHIldren presenting to primary care with acute COugh and respiratory tract infection
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
31/03/2018 to 31/03/2022
UnPAC - Understanding the causes of miss-communication in Primary care consultations for children with Acute Cough
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2014 to 31/07/2015
Improving the quality of care for children with respiratory tract infections in primary care (TARGET)
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
The overall aim of this NIHR funded Programme for Applied Research Grant is to improve the quality of care given to children presenting to primary care with respiratory tract infections.…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/07/2010 to 31/03/2018
Aquatest 2: Delivering a low-cost water test for developing countries (SPS)
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The School for Policy Studies has had a pivotal role in securing an award of $13.1m from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a clean-water test for use…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/09/2007 to 01/08/2011
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2022What are clinician’s views and experiences of implementing a complex intervention to inform antibiotic prescribing in children with respiratory tract infections in primary care?
Antibiotic Stewardship in Retail Pharmacies and the Access-Excess Challenge in China
Antibiotics
Can primary care research be conducted more efficiently using routinely reported practice-level data
BMJ Open
Cluster randomised controlled trial to assess a tailored intervention to reduce antibiotic prescribing in rural China
BMJ Open
Identifying key influences on antibiotic use in China: a systematic scoping review and narrative synthesis
BMJ Open