Angille Heintzman
DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care
Thesis
Cancer screening for refugees in Canadian primary care: a realist evaluation
Research abstract
Early cancer screening of refugees could mitigate perceived and actual strains on health services, as well as delivering improved morbidity and mortality outcomes for the refugee patient. I have chosen to undertake a realist evaluation of this topic because I want to look at why, for whom, and in what circumstances primary care cancer screening programmes work (or don’t) for refugees, while also looking at this problem through the multiple policy lenses in Canada, and other high-income countries.
Supervisor(s)
Biography
Angille has worked in healthcare improvement and patient safety, both in the NHS and in Canada. She is interested in how social determinants of health influence patient care. She has a BSc from the University of Alberta, a MSc in Public Policy from the University of London, and an MSc in EBHC from Oxford. Her career has mainly focused on transfusion and transplant science in the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, and she has spent a few years working on improving primary care in Canada. Angille is currently a member of the Canadian College of Health Leaders and the Royal Society for Public Health (UK).
Publications
Nunan, D., Bashir, K., Bilimoria, K., Birdi, J., Campbell, F., Dean, R., Downer, M.B., Costa, G.G., Golob, M.M., Heintzman, A., Howe, M.S., Karunananthan, S., Kurup, K.K., Leinberger-Jabari, A., Luo, Y., Mathe, N., Miguel, R.T.D., Morrow, R.L., Scobie, C. and South, V. (2023). Ten resources for understanding bias in health research: EBM live workshop 2022. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. [online] doi:https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112344.
Heintzman, A., Stanojevic, M. and Thomason, S. (2014). L’amélioration des données relatives aux donneurs de sang en Ouganda. In: Safe and Sustainable Blood Services, Lifeblood of the Future. 7th AfSBT Congress 2014. African Society for Blood Transfusion, pp.121–123.
ispe.org. (2012). GAMP Good Practice Guide: Testing GxP Systems 2nd Edition | ISPE | International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering. [online] Available at: https://ispe.org/publications/guidance-documents/gamp-good-practice-guide-testing-gxp-systems-2nd-edition
Research interests
#RefugeeHealth #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth #CancerScreening
