Corporate report

Annex D: Research studies reviewed by PHE REGG 2019

Updated 25 May 2021

The remit of the Public Health England (PHE) Research Ethics and Governance of Public Health Practice Group (REGG) is to ensure that all research that is led by PHE receives an appropriate level of regulatory review. The REGG provides authoritative and independent review of PHE led studies that involve human participants, their data and,or, their tissues.

R&D reference Title
352 Investigating the burden of varicella zoster infection in England
353 A study exploring factors associated with influenza care seeking
356 Volunteer studies of the effectiveness of UK Initial Operational Response and Specialist Operational Response decontamination methods for hair
357 Metagenomic sequencing of human Monkeypox isolates obtained during the 2018 to 2019 outbreak, Nigeria
362 How can Defra best communicate with the public to raise awareness of the negative impacts of domestic combustion and positively affect behaviour in this area?
363 Tick-borne pathogen sero-surveillance study in individuals at high occupational or recreational risk of tick-bite
365 Public perceptions of pre-incident information materials for acid attacks: a focus group study
366 Hot weather and hospital overheating - a qualitative case study
369 Exploring sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC): insights from key professionals in North-Central London
372 Identifying the training potential of low fidelity simulations like ETS to address UK emergency preparedness and response needs
373 Identifying barriers to dental care for adults living with or without dementia in residential care home
374 Is the use of dating apps associated with STIs in young heterosexuals?
376 Investigating evidence of tick-borne pathogens in the UK utilising deer as sentinels
377 Is the use of dating apps associated with developing sexually-transmitted infection(s) (STIs) in young heterosexual adults in the North East of England?
378 Practices in reporting Quantiferon GOLD assay results close to a clinical decision value in the European TB Reference Laboratories – a multicentre ERLTB-Net-2 study
379 A randomised controlled trial of behaviourally informed feedback letters sent by the chief medical officer on the amount of antibiotics prescribed in primary care
383 Improving empiric antibiotic prescribing by applying a Bayesian decision theory approach to phenotypic and genomic resistance data
384 Public perceptions of pre-incident information materials for acid attacks: a focus group study
388 I-MOVE. Hospital-based, test-negative case-control studies to measure seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness against influenza laboratory-confirmed severe acute respiratory infection hospitalisation among the elderly across the EU
386 Risk factors for community-onset E. coli BSI: a case-control study
389 Relationship between Treponema EIA and TPPA positivity