Dr Perihan Torun (MSc Epidemiology)

Section of Public Health perihan torun
ScHARR
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA

Office: Room 2037, 2nd Floor, Regent Court

Tel: (+44( (0) 114 222 0757
Fax: (+44) (0) 114 272 4095

Biography

I trained in Public Health Medicine in Turkey and have done my Master's in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

I joined ScHARR in 2011. Before this I worked as a Public Health researcher at the University of Manchester, taught epidemiology and programme evaluation with the University of Liverpool and the Peoples-uni initiative.

Research Interests

I am interested in global health research, particularly in designing evaluation studies.

Teaching Interests

My main interest is in capacity building in Public Health in low-income countries. I am involved in designing and delivering online modules in epidemiology and programme evaluation, especially within a global health context.

Key Publications

Verma A, Harrison A, Torun P, VestboJ, Edwards R, Thornton J.
Are pharmacists reducing COPD's impact through smoking cessation and assessing inhaled steroid use?
Respiratory Medicine
(2011) doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2011.08.011

Verma A, Torun P, Harris E, Edwards R, Gemmell I, Harrison R, Buchan I, Davies L, Patterson L, Heller RF.
Population Impact Analysis: a framework for assessing the population impact of a risk or intervention.

Torun P, Heller RF, Verma A.
Potential population impact of increasing heroin treatment rate on mortality and of reducing smoking on asthma events.
European Journal of Public Health
(2009) 19(1):28-31

Thornton J, Torun P, Harrison A, Harrison RA, Verma A.
Smoking cessation support in community pharmacies: is the association of smoking and eye disease an additional tool to increase uptake?
Internationial Journal of Pharmacy Practice.
(2008) 4 (16): 251-256

Heller RF, Chongsuvivatwong V, Hailegeogios S, Dada J, Torun R, Madhok R, Sandars J.
People's Open Access Education Initiative. Capacity-building for public health.
Bull World Health Organisation
(2007) Dec 85(12):930-4