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 Effective mechanisms for social prescribing Dissemination and implementation in dementia care PenCHORD: Evaluation of the PenCHORD Health Service Modelling Associates programme (EmMA) ExPERT - Exeter Policing, Evidence and Research Translation Antipsychotic prescribing in people with dementia resident in care homes The Care Home Implementation and Knowledge Mobilisation Project (CHIK-P) PenCHORD: Evaluation of the PenCHORD Health Service Modelling Associates programme (EmMA) 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)Publications
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 literatureAdherence 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 StudyWhat 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
23
LKD Seminar: The art of...
Room 3.06, South Cloisters, St Luke’s Campus, Exeter and video-conferenced to F083 KSpa, Truro and MR10 JBB, Plymouth
Learning, Knowing, Doing Series Seminar Speaker: Dr Roman
Kislov, Senior Research Fellow in the University of...
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Apr
24
Searching and Review Clinic
Room 2.35, South Cloisters, St Lukes Campus, University of Exeter
These clinics have been set up to help the PenCLAHRC Evidence
Synthesis Team to manage and respond...
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News
Improving health care pathways for patients with chronic conditions
05 April 2018
PenCLAHRC Senior Research Fellow, Dr Helen Lloyd, has spoken to the
BBC about the impacts...
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Partner in Focus - Devon Partnership NHS Trust
29 March 2018
As a partnership of NHS Trusts across Devon, Cornwall and Somerset,
plus the Universities of...
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Does brain function really decline after hip and knee surgery?
28 March 2018
A new study due to launch in the South West aims to explore if
brain...
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Research Projects
How can schools best support parents' engagement in their children's learning?
Theme: Evidence for Policy and Practice
This project aims to address how schools can best engage parents in
their children’s learning....
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What are the effects of 'robopets' on the health and wellbeing of residents in care homes? A systematic review of qualitative and quantitative evidence
Theme: Mental Health & Dementia
A systematic review that aims to create a state-of-knowledge
synthesis on the impact of robopet-human...
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