Staff Profile
Dr Iain Lang
Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Lead for Communications
I am a Consultant in Public Health with Devon County Council and a Senior Lecturer in Public Health with PenCLAHRC. My research interests relate to older people's health, particularly frailty and dementia, and to implementation.
LKD: Adventures in Knowledge Mobilisation blog
Contact by phone
01392 726087 or 07970799249
Employed by
Devon County Council
Areas of expertise
Public Health
Projects
The Patient Safety Collaborative Evaluation Study (PiSCES)
End of Life Advance Care Planning Study (ELAPS) Health Care Quality for an Active Later Life Vitamin D and Cognitive Health: the DCog Project Volunteering for Health Physical Activity in Older Adults Antipsychotic prescribing in people with dementia resident in care homes PenCHORD - DECODE: Modelling the impact of a dementia triage system on Exeter memory clinic waiting times SW AHSN/PenCLAHRC Project - Analysing implementation in Acute Stroke and Patient Initiated Clinics (ASPIC) ExPERT - Exeter Policing, Evidence and Research Translation The Care Home Implementation and Knowledge Mobilisation Project (CHIK-P) PenCHORD- Evaluation of the PenCHORD Health Service Modelling Associates programme (EmMA) Dissemination and implementation in dementia care Social Prescribing - Effective Mechanisms for Social PrescribingPublications
Common health predictors of early retirement: findings from the English Longitudinal Study of AgeingBaby boomers nearing retirement: the healthiest generation?The case for addressing explosive weapons: Conflict, violence and healthVitamin D and risk of cognitive decline in elderly personsDepression among older adults in the United States and EnglandVitamin D and cognitive impairment in the elderly US populationIncome and the midlife peak in common mental disorder prevalenceVitamin D, cognitive dysfunction and dementia in older adultsVitamin D and cognitive functionCost-effectiveness of oromucosal cannabis-based medicine (Sativex) for spasticity in multiple sclerosisAssociation of Bisphenol A With Diabetes and Other AbnormalitiesImproving later life. Understanding the oldest oldThe Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice (3rd edition)The influence of problematic child-teacher relationships on future psychiatric disorder in a population survey with three year follow upVitamin D and the risk of dementia and Alzheimer diseaseInterventions to reduce inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotic medications in people with dementia resident in care homes: a systematic review Economic inequalities in burden of illness, diagnosis and treatment of five long-term conditions in England: panel studyAssociation of Urinary Bisphenol A Concentration With Medical Disorders and Laboratory Abnormalities in AdultsKnowledge, knowledge mobilisation and the third sectorHistory of alcohol use disorders and risk of severe cognitive impairment: A nineteen-year prospective cohort studySerum Leptin and Risk of Cognitive Decline in Elderly ItaliansEditorial: Avoiding Depression, Dementia and Frailty: Do You Feel Lucky?Initiating discussion in end of life care: clinician's perspectives“Thinking you’re old and frail”: A qualitative study of a frailty in older adultsPhysiotherapeutic interventions for people with dementia and hip fracture - a scoping review of the literatureAlcohol and dementia: a complex relationship with potential for dementia preventionAdherence to Mediterranean diet, cognitive function and dementia: a systematic reviewFrailty, wealth and subjective well-being in later lifeRelationship between perceptions of ageing and frailty in English older adultsThe experiences of physiotherapists treating people with dementia who fracture their hipOlder adults’ perceptions of ageing and their health and functioning: a systematic review of observational studiesVariation in ambulance call rates for care homes in Torbay, UKDissemination and implementation research in dementia care: a systematic scoping review and evidence mapMaking Sense of Evidence: Using Research Training to Promote Organisational ChangeCoronary artery bypass graft surgery and dementia risk in the Cardiovascular Health StudyAn implementation science perspective on deprescribingWhat approaches to social prescribing work, for whom, and in what circumstances? A protocol for a realist reviewVitamin D and memory decline: two population-based prospective studiesUpcoming Events
Apr
25
Search Advice Clinic for Systematic...
ITTC Building, Plymouth (Cafe area: please go to Reception on arrival where a member of the team will meet you)
These clinics have been set up to help the PenCLAHRC Evidence
Synthesis Team to manage and respond...
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May
08
Qualitative Research Advice Clinic for...
South Cloisters Room SC2.17, St Luke's Campus, University of Exeter
Whether you are a postgraduate student, academic or researcher you
can book an appointment to speak...
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News
Exeter clinicians and researchers help shape proposals to improve stroke services in Northern Ireland
08 April 2019
Pioneering work by Professor Martin James, a senior NHS clinician
for stroke services in Exeter...
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Successful home-based heart rehabilitation programme rolled out
08 April 2019
A new rehabilitation programme, which helps heart failure patients
achieve better quality of life from...
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STARS launches second phase of Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Programme
04 April 2019
The first phase of The Supporting Teachers And childRen in Schools
(STARS) programme, a randomised...
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Research Projects
Social Prescribing - Understanding what works in, and supporting provision of, nature - based therapeutic interventions for people with an identifiable mental illness
Theme: Healthy People, Healthy Environments
We have been awarded funding from DEFRA to identify what works in
the use of...
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Social Prescribing - Cornwall and Plymouth Researcher in Residence
Theme: Healthy People, Healthy Environments
Evaluation work by a Researcher in Residence to assess
implementation, reach, scope and acceptability of...
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