Christie Cabral conducts research with the Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Behavioural Science and Evaluation and the NIHR Bristol Evidence Synthesis Group (BEAM).   

Christie is a social anthropologist whose research focusses on: 

• Complex intervention development, implementation and evaluation, drawing on mixed methods evidence, theory-informed approaches and employing collaborative co-design. 
• Applied research into illness beliefs, health behaviours and health inequalities in primary care and global health contexts. Her most influential work is in the field of overuse of antibiotics in primary care, which has been highly cited internationally and influenced antibiotic stewardship. 
• Qualitative Evidence Synthesis conduct and methodology 

Christie has been Principal Investigator or Intervention Development / Implementation Lead on numerous projects including:  

• Improving primary care antibiotic prescribing to reduce antibiotic resistant urine infections (IPAP-UTI) 

• Delivering strategies for Hepatitis C in Ethiopia (DESTINE) 

• Connecting Evidence to Decision Making (ConnectED) 

• Strategies to reduce the burden of Antibiotic Resistance in China (STAR-China) 

• RCT to reduce antibiotic prescribing among CHIldren with COugh (CHICO) 

• Understanding the Causes of Miscommunication in Primary Care Consultations for Children with Acute Cough (UNPAC) 

• Examining the interactions and behaviours in consultations for childhood respiratory tract infections (CONKER) 

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 and was used in the CHICO trial. 

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 incorporated into Public Health England & RCGP TARGET Antibiotic Training Webinar hosted by the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.  

Christie currently has five PhD students, previously supervised four successful PhD students and has been both an internal and external PhD examiner.  

Christie is Associate Editor (Qualitative synthesis) for Research Synthesis Methods.