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Prof Zara Quigg

Public and Allied Health

Faculty of Health

Email: Z.A.Quigg@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 231 4513

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Dr Zara Quigg is a Professor in Behavioural Epidemiology, and the Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Violence Prevention. She leads a research and evaluation team who work at local to international level to enhance a whole system public health approach to violence prevention and related health risk behaviours. Zara has extensive experience of undertaking and managing research and programme evaluation studies on violence, ACEs, alcohol use, gambling and nightlife health. She sits on a number of violence/ACE prevention groups and supports various Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) through membership on steering groups (e.g. Merseyside), programme evaluation (e.g. Merseyside, Lancashire, South Wales), and sharing and dissemination of evidence and learning (liaising with the Home Office and national/local VRU evaluation teams). In the United Kingdom, she regularly works with colleagues at OHID and Public Health Wales, and other regional (e.g. local authorities, police) and national (e.g. Department of Health/Home Office; NHS England; Youth Endowment Fund) organisations. Her European and international work means that she is adapt with working with multiple partners across low, middle and high income countries, leading and supporting large scale projects and advocating for responses to violence and other public health issues. Having developed the North West Trauma and Injury Intelligence Group (TIIG) injury surveillance system (www.tiig.info), a key part of her role has involved working with local (e.g. North West, West Midlands and South Wales) and national partners (e.g. Department of Health/Home Office) to promote the use of health data in violence prevention.

She leads the Violence module on the MSc in Public Health, and Health Risk Behaviours module on the BSc in Public Health at LJMU, contributes to various educational programmes within and external to LJMU, and supervisors MSc and PhD students.

Degrees

2015, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, PhD
2008, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, MSc
2003, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, BSc

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