Dr Natalia Lewis
MD, PhD
Expertise
I am a health services researcher with a clinical background and specialism in primary care responses to domestic violence and trauma-informed approach at the health systems level.
Current positions
Research Fellow in Primary Care
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Contact
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Research interests
Mixed methods.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
HERA - Healthcare Responding to Violence and Abuse
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
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
Including community pharmacies in responses to women with experience of domestic violence and abuse
Principal Investigator
Description
Domestic violence and abuse is a major public health problem, with devastating consequences for women who experience it and great cost to the NHS.
Local domestic homicide review and rapid literature…Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/09/2016 to 01/04/2020
VEGA (Violence, Evidence, Guidance and Action) Project
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Bring together evidence from previous studies that explored child, parent and professional experiences of identifying and responding to children exposed to domestic violence and abuse.Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/11/2015 to 31/10/2016
CEASE
Principal Investigator
Description
The study aims at exploring of the role of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis activity in abuse impact on women's mental health. Study objectives:
1) To evaluate diurnal cortisol slope, cortisol awakening response, and…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/05/2012 to 01/01/2013
Publications
Recent publications
18/02/2021Trauma-informed approaches to primary and community mental health care
BMJ Open
Disruption of a primary health care domestic violence and abuse service in two London boroughs
BMC Health Services Research
Improving the healthcare response to domestic violence and abuse in UK primary care
BMC Medicine
The coMforT study of a trauma-informed mindfulness intervention for women who have experienced domestic violence and abuse
Pilot and Feasibility Studies