Professor Kerryn Husk
Professor of Health Services (Research) & Co-Theme Lead for Prevention
Expertise
Health inequalities, research methodology, systematic review
Biography
My interests are based around primary care, complex interventions and evidence synthesis. Currently I am interested in issues around evidencing and developing non-NHS delivered interventions, including social prescribing pathways, outlined here.
Projects
- CHOICES-HI: CHildren and young people’s Options In the Community for Enhancing wellbeing Support through Hospital-Initiated social prescribing.
- Evaluation of the Cornwall Community Health and Wellbeing Worker (CHWW) Service
- GREENGAGE: Nature on Prescription for Mental Health
- Medical Research Council Project
- Harnessing scientific evidence to power the future of social prescribing
- PHASED: A systematic review of physical activity for alcohol and substance use disorders
- Optimising cultural provision to improve older people’s wellbeing through social prescribing in the context of COVID-19: Realist review and evaluation.
- CHOICES: CHildren and young people’s Options In the Community for Enhancing wellbeing through Social prescribing.
- Defra Green Social Prescribing Evaluation
- PhD Project – Social prescribing and horticulture therapy for autistic adults
- Social Prescribing – Cornwall and Plymouth Researcher in Residence
- Social Prescribing – Effective Mechanisms for Social Prescribing
Publications
- Impact of COVID-19 on social prescribing across an Integrated Care System: A Researcher in Residence study
- The use of social prescribing and community-based wellbeing activities as a potential prevention and early intervention pathway to improve adolescent emotional and social development
- Health and wellbeing outcomes and social prescribing pathways in community-based support for autistic adults: A systematic mapping review of reviews
- Therapeutic Nature: Nature-based social prescribing for diagnosed mental health conditions in the UK: Research Briefing
- Therapeutic Nature: Nature-based social prescribing for diagnosed mental health conditions in the UK: Final Report
- What approaches to social prescribing work, for whom, and in what circumstances? A realist review
- Social prescribing: where is the evidence?
- Interventions for reducing unplanned paediatric admissions: an observational study in one hospital
- Physical activity and the prevention, reduction, and treatment of alcohol and/or substance use across the lifespan (The PHASE review): protocol for a systematic review
- Prescribing gardening and conservation activities for health and wellbeing in older people
- Supplementary search methods were more effective and offered better value than bibliographic database searching: a case study from public health and environmental enhancement
- The proportion of the population of England that self-identifies as lesbian, gay or bisexual: producing modelled estimates based on national social surveys
- Social prescribing offers huge potential but requires a nuanced evidence base
- A realist review and collaborative development of what works in the social prescribing process
- Paediatricians: Are they just little adults?
- Participation in environmental enhancement and conservation activities for health and well-being in adults: a review of quantitative and qualitative evidence
- Exploring the relationship between childhood obesity and proximity to the coast: A rural/urban perspective
- Participation in environmental enhancement and conservation activities for health and well‐being in adults: a review of quantitative and qualitative evidence
- Understanding how environmental enhancement and conservation activities may benefit health and wellbeing: a systematic review
- Beyond greenspace: an ecological study of population general health and indicators of natural environment type and quality