Dr Estela Capelas Barbosa
MSc, PhD
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Health Economics
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
Estela has research experience in economics, with emphasis on social welfare and health economics. Before moving to the UK, she worked for the Brazilian Ministry of Health. She did her PhD at the Centre for Health Economics at York and focused on developing methods for measuring unfair inequalities. She has worked at UCL as a health economist for NIHR CLAHRC North Thames and she was involved on a broad range of policy evaluation projects, including the evaluation of the implementation of Identification and Referral to Improve Safety (IRIS), a domestic violence training and support programme for primary care; and the evaluation of screening for HIV in primary care. Currently she is a co-deputy director for the UKPRP-funded VISION Consortium. She is also involved in an international collaboration between UK, Brazil, Nepal and Sri Lanka, carrying out the economic component of the evaluation of local healthcare responses to domestic violence and abuse. She currently shares her time supporting the BRIGHT team with her health economics and modelling expertise.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Violence, Health and Society: VISION
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The vision underlying the Consortium on 'Violence, Health and Society' is that improving the knowledge base on violence and using this knowledge to inform changes to policy and practice will…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/10/2021 to 30/09/2026
8069 UKRI via KCL: Estimating the lifetime cost of Sexual Violence and abuse in Essex, UK
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (THS)Dates
01/05/2020 to 30/04/2021
HERA - Healthcare Responding to Violence and Abuse
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
HERA (Healthcare Responding to Violence and Abuse) aims to:
Understand how healthcare systems in LMIC can integrate and evaluate interventions for VAW that link with community organisations, and ultimately ensure better…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (THS)Dates
01/04/2017 to 01/11/2021
Publications
Recent publications
10/02/2025Effectiveness of UK-based support interventions and services aimed at adults who have experienced or used domestic and sexual violence and abuse
BMC Public Health
Identifying and responding to domestic abuse in cancer care
European Journal of Oncology Nursing
Look-alike modelling in violence-related research
PLoS ONE
Challenges of using specialist domestic and sexual violence and abuse service data to inform policy and practice on violence reduction in the UK
Journal of Gender-Based Violence
COVID-19 adaptations to a training and support programme to improve primary care response to domestic abuse
BMC Primary Care
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