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Biography
Prof Orton (Liz) is the Director of the Unit of Lifespan and Population Health in the School of Medicine, and the Chief Investigator of the NIHR PHIRST-Light team.
Her academic career began in the field of hearing research at the University of Keele where she completed a PhD in 1996 investigating the cellular mechanisms of sensory hair cell degeneration and repair. After a short-term lectureship in neuroscience at the University of Sheffield she moved to the Loeb Research Institute, Canada, as a postdoctoral fellow to study the genetics of inner ear development and then continued this work at the MRC Institute of Hearing Research at the University of Nottingham.
In 2003 she joined the National Newborn Hearing Screening Programme where she established the quality assurance systems for neonatal hearing screening across England.
In 2008 she began public health specialty training in the East Midlands and in 2010 was appointed a part-time lectureship in public health in the Division of Primary Care at the University of Nottingham, working as part of the Injury Epidemiology and Prevention group. She is now a Professor (University of Nottingham) and Consultant in Public Health (Leicestershire County Council).
Her research interests centre around injury epidemiology and prevention, including intervention studies, systematic reviews, large data analysis and implementation research.
Expertise Summary
Keywords:
Public health, primary care databases, STATA, service evaluation, injury epidemiology
Teaching Summary
Prof Orton convenes the Health and Society (Sociology) module on the MPH programme, supervises research dissertations and supports the academic development of doctors in training wanting to undertake… read more
Research Summary
Prof Orton is the Chief Investigator for the NIHR PHIRST-Light programme. Her main area of research is injury epidemiology and how the frequency of injury has changed over time and differs between… read more
Prof Orton convenes the Health and Society (Sociology) module on the MPH programme, supervises research dissertations and supports the academic development of doctors in training wanting to undertake academic placements.
Current Research
Prof Orton is the Chief Investigator for the NIHR PHIRST-Light programme. Her main area of research is injury epidemiology and how the frequency of injury has changed over time and differs between people of different ages in the UK. She uses a range of research methods to investigate the factors that influence injury, including alcohol harm (excessive consumption, violence related to alcohol, parental alcohol misuse), and other social factors.
She is currently involved with researching factors falls prevention in older adult and injury prevention in pre-school children.
She is also a Consultant in Public Health.
Past Research
Previously worked in developmental biology, identifying genes responsible for congenital deafness and repair in the inner ear following ototoxicity.
Future Research
She is interested in studying the implementation of evidence-based interventions into practice.