Dr Douglas Noble, BSc, BM BCh, MRCS, MPH, MFPH, FRSPH
Honorary Clinical Lecturer
email: d.noble@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 20 7882 5639
Fax: +44 20 7882 2552
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Postal address:
2 Newark Street
Whitechapel
London E1 2AT
Douglas read science and medicine at St. Andrews and Oxford Universities. From 2006-2008 he worked as Clinical Adviser to the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, working on three successive annual reports on the state of public health in the UK. Douglas has worked extensively with the World Health Organization and has been involved in leading the development of several WHO reports. He completed a master’s degree in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, USA in 2009. Recently he was advising the UK Cabinet Office on their report: Behavioural Insights for Health, and co-produced the report: Public Health Our Voice, for the British Medical Association. He is currently a Public Health Registrar in the London Deanery and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.
Research interests:
Diabetes Risk Scores
Quality and Safety in Healthcare
Public Health
Publications:
Most recent publications:
Noble DJ, Greaves F, Donaldson L: Chapter 1, Public Health. Medical Research: Understanding the Studies that Shaped Medicine. Wiley-Blackwell. In press March 2011
Noble DJ, Panesar SS, Pronovost P: A public health approach to reporting systems operating at different levels within healthcare is urgently needed. Journal of Patient Safety. In press March 2011
Noble DJ, Little C, Lane C, Davies R, De Pinna E, Larkin L, Morgan D: Revival of an old problem: An increase of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium Definitive Phage Type 8 Infections in 2010 in England and Northern Ireland linked to duck eggs. Epidemiol Infect. 2011 Apr 7:1-4. [Epub ahead of print]
Noble DJ, Pronovost P: Underreporting of patient safety incidents reduces healthcare's ability to quantify and accurately measure harm reduction. Journal of Patient Safety. 2010 Dec;6(4):247-250.
Walton M, Woodward H, Van Staalduinen S, Lemer C, Greaves F, Noble D, Ellis B, Donaldson L, Barraclough B: The World Health Organization (WHO) Patient Safety Curriculum Guide for Medical Schools. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010 Dec;19(6):542-6.
Noble DJ, Donaldson LJ: The quest to eliminate intrathecal vincristine errors: a 40 year journey. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010 Aug;19(4):323-6.
Woodward HI, Mytton OT, Lemer C, Yardley IE, Ellis BM, Rutter PD, Greaves FE, Noble DJ, Kelley E, Wu AW: What Have We Learned About Interventions to Reduce Medical Errors? Annu Rev Public Health. 2010 Apr 21;31:479-97.