Public Health with Professor Kelechi Nnoaham

In this session I speak with Professor Kelechi Nnoaham. We examine the prevailing themes of public health within the contemporary pandemic. We examine some of the key aspects of public health necessary to overcome one of the most challenging public health issues since the inception of the NHS. We dissect some of the fundamental principles of public health, the info-demic war of information, the contemporary evidence-based research, decentralised leadership and more.

Professor Kelechi is the Executive Director of Public Health and lead for Research & Development, Innovation and Value-Based Health for Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, Wales. Kelechi has held Honorary Professorships in Public Health and Epidemiology at Plymouth University (since 2015) and Cardiff University (since 2021) medical schools and previously worked as the Director of Public Health for Plymouth and Bristol City Councils. He has subsequently worked throughout leadership roles in public health and healthcare leadership across the UK. Kelechi has an MPH in Global Health Science (with Distinction) at Oxford University and followed that up with a PhD in Public Health & Epidemiology at Oxford University in 2011. In the conversation we examine:

• The current public health climate – acute versus chronic needs, secondary infection rates.
• Collaboration – joined up working versus independent initiative
• The information war – The ‘info-demic’
• ‘Press release’ medicine – effectiveness and impact.
• The principles of public health - The big 5 - population health management, prevention, population health research, knowledge mobilisation and collaborative working with communities.
• The 4, 4, 54 principles within a public health context
• Empirical research in the current climate; disaggregation of data (lack of sub-group analysis), action with absence of published data, equity of authorship, retraction of papers, robustness of evidence, retraction of studies, increase in corrections in 2020, decrease in RCTs & Meta analysis, decrease in ethics and consent.
• Decentralised ownership of health (internal locus of control).

Professor Kelechi can be contacted through the following platforms;

• Twitter - @CwmTaf_DPH, @KelechiNnoaham

• LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/kelechi-nnoaham-1649937

Please enjoy this interview with an insightful and fascinating guest.