Principal speaker
Dr Rajna Golubic
Menzies Health Insitute Queensland, Optimising Health Outcomes Seminar
Title
A journey from work ability in Croatian healthcare professionals to population levels of physical activity, cardio-metabolic outcomes and international research methods education
Abstract
Dr Golubic will present some of the findings of the cross-sectional study she co-led in Croatian hospitals focusing on occupational stress, work ability and quality of life among Croatian health care workers. This resulted in a doctoral thesis, several publications and positive changes in the education of nurses in Croatia. She will also show a range of the projects she worked on during her MPhil and PhD in epidemiology at Cambridge whereby she used data from several large-scale prospective cohort studies (Interact, European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition), birth cohort (National Survey for Health and Development, 1946 Birth Cohort), survey data (NHANES) and an RCT (Proactive). The focus of this work was on physical activity, methodological aspects in its assessment, descriptive epidemiology and associations with cardio-metabolic and other lifestyle-related chronic disease. She will share the results of the Cambridge Intensive Weight Management Programme which is a service-based multidisciplinary intervention for severely obese patients and Rajna led the analysis. Together with Professor Sumantra Ray (visiting professor at Griffith University in 2016) she edited the Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research.
Biography
Rajna is a co-lead of the NNEdPro Research Fellows Panel and a doctor (general internal medicine) in Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge. She qualified as an MD at the Zagreb University School of Medicine (Croatia). Subsequently, she worked as a physician/research fellow at the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine (Andrija Stampar School of Public Health) where she trained in occupational and sports medicine and was involved in research projects and international public health collaborations focusing on workers' health (WHO Collaborative Center for Occupational Health, Zagreb) and thought medical students. Rajna obtained a doctorate in occupational medicine and undertook advanced training in clinical research methods at the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam (as a Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences Fellow). Rajna completed an MPhil in Public Health and a PhD in Epidemiology at Cambridge as a Gates Scholar. Her PhD research focused on the descriptive epidemiology and measurement aspects of physical activity and its associations with cardio-metabolic diseases. She won several international awards and prizes and presented at international conferences. She is associate editor of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research. Her main research interests revolve around risk factors and prevention of cardio-metabolic diseases and improved research methods in healthcare.
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