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Scally Gabriel

Visiting Professor of Public Health, University of Bristol
Verified email at bristol.ac.uk
Cited by 5328

The relationship between buildings and health: a systematic review

J Ige, P Pilkington, J Orme, B Williams… - Journal of public …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background The built environment exerts one of the strongest directly measurable effects on
physical and mental health, yet the evidence base underpinning the design of healthy urban …

Clinical governance and the drive for quality improvement in the new NHS in England

G Scally, LJ Donaldson - Bmj, 1998 - bmj.com
A commitment to deliver high quality care should be at the heart of everyday clinical practice.
In the past many health professionals have watched as board agendas and management …

The UK's public health response to covid-19

G Scally, B Jacobson, K Abbasi - Bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
The UK government and its advisers were confident that they were “well prepared” when
covid-19 swept East Asia. The four-pronged plan of 3 March to contain, delay, research, and …

[HTML][HTML] Open science communication: The first year of the UK's Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies

M McKee, D Altmann, A Costello, K Friston, Z Haque… - Health policy, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on the complex relationship between science
and policy. Policymakers have had to make decisions at speed in conditions of uncertainty …

Evidence informing the UK's COVID-19 public health response must be transparent

NA Alwan, R Bhopal, RA Burgess, T Colburn… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
The UK Government asserts that its response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic is based on evidence and expert modelling. However, different scientists can …

Vaccinating adolescents against SARS-CoV-2 in England: a risk–benefit analysis

D Gurdasani, S Bhatt, A Costello… - Journal of the Royal …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective To offer a quantitative risk–benefit analysis of two doses of SARS-CoV-2
vaccination among adolescents in England. Setting England. Design Following the risk …

Trending now: future directions in digital media for the public health sector

A Burke-Garcia, G Scally - Journal of Public Health, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background Digital media usage is expanding enormously and is starting to be used as a
public health intervention and communication tool. It has an ability to increase the reach of …

Covid-19 in the UK: policy on children and schools

D Gurdasani, C Pagel, M McKee, S Michie… - bmj, 2022 - bmj.com
Covid-19 in the UK: policy on children and schools Page 1 COVID INQUIRY Covid-19 in the UK:
policy on children and schools Deepti Gurdasani and colleagues argue UK covid policy did not …

Moving health upstream in urban development: reflections on the operationalization of a transdisciplinary case study

D Black, G Scally, J Orme, A Hunt… - Global …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes the development, conceptualization, and implementation of a
transdisciplinary research pilot, the aim of which is to understand how human and planetary …

[HTML][HTML] Bordering on crisis: A qualitative analysis of focus group, social media, and news media perspectives on the Republic of Ireland-Northern Ireland border …

C O'Connor, N O'Connell, E Burke, M Dempster… - Social Science & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Rationale International border controls were among the earliest and most effective of
measures to constrain transmission of COVID-19. However, such measures are complex …