Professor Matthew Hickman
B.Sc.(Lanc.), M.Sc.(Aberd.), Ph.D.(Lond.)
Current positions
Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
I am the co-director with Isabel Oliver (Public Health England) and Richard Amlot (Public Health England) of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Behavioural Science and Evaluations, and a member and co-investigator of NIHR School of Public Health Research and DeCIPHER (UKCRC Public Health Centre of Excellence for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement).
My research programme focuses on infectious disease control and the epidemiology and public health consequences of drug use – with active research grants on prevention of Hepatitis C Virus, drug related mortality, and alcohol related harms.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Opioid overdose deaths: Understanding the lethal interactions between benzodiazepines and opioids to develop new harm reduction strategies
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/07/2022 to 30/06/2025
RC Co-production of an educational package for the universal HPV vaccination programme tailored for schools with low uptake: A participatory study - EDUCATE
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2021 to 30/06/2021
8074 (EZW) MRC via LSHTM Harriet Forbes Fellowship OAFI
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/07/2020 to 30/06/2021
Co-production of an educational package for the universal HPV vaccination programme tailored for schools with low uptake: A participatory study
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2020 to 31/03/2021
Thesis supervisions
Investigating glassware as a choice architecture intervention to reduce alcohol consumption
Supervisors
Investigating the epidemiology of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in different settings around the world
Supervisors
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in young adults
Supervisors
Investigating the Relationship between Anxiety and Alcohol Use
Supervisors
Suicide prevention in clinical populations with substance use problems
Supervisors
“Holding on by the Seat of Their Pants” A Mixed Methods Exploration of Retention, Completion and Recovery in Opioid Substitution Treatment
Supervisors
Quantifying the neurophysiological effects of 5-HT<sub>2A</sub> receptor activation on cortico-limbic and cortico-striatal network dynamics in rats
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2023Evaluating Supervised Opioid Agonist Treatment Consumption Statistical Analysis Plan
Mpox knowledge, behaviours and barriers to public health measures among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in the UK: A qualitative study to inform public health guidance and messaging
Agreement between self-reported illicit drug use and biological samples
Addiction
Association between Gender Minority Status and Mental Health in High School Students
Journal of Adolescent Health
Associations between the prevalence of chronic hepatitis B among people who inject drugs and country-level characteristics
Drug and Alcohol Review
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