Biography
Dr Shobhana (Shobi) Nagraj is an Assistant Professor in Primary & Community Care. Locally, she works in partnership with the East London NHS Foundation Trust and leads a research hub to improve healthcare delivery for under-represented populations across Luton & Bedfordshire, using global health thinking to address local health challenges. Shobi has worked closely with rural communities and Community Health Care Workers (CHWs) in low-resource settings globally. She is passionate about delivering high-quality, person-centred and universal health services to women and children. Her research focuses on implementation science and the use of theory in the design, implementation and evaluation of complex interventions (including mobile technologies) to support the healthcare workforce and the communities they serve. Shobi completed her DPhil in Women’s & Reproductive Health at the University of Oxford, and previously worked in the Centre for Global Health Research, University of Oxford. She co-Leads the Global Health theme of the MPhil in Population Health Sciences and is module lead for the 'Health Systems for All' module. Shobi is co-Theme lead for Global Health as part of Cambridge Public Health, and an Associate reseracher for Cambridge Reproduction. She is a Visiting Senior Researcher at the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford and the Health Systems Collaborative, Centre for Global Health Research, University of Oxford.
Research
Global Health, Intervention design, Maternal Child Health, Health Systems
Publications
Swainston R, Zhao Y, Harriss E, Leckcivilize A, English M, Nagraj S. Public perception of the physician associate profession in the UK: a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research. 2024 Nov 29;24:1509.
Jones B, Marangou J…English M*, Nagraj S*, Francis J*. NEARER SCAN (LENO BESIK) evaluation of a task-sharing echocardiographic active case finding programme for rheumatic heart disease in Australia and Timor-Leste: protocol for a hybrid type II effectiveness-implementation study. BMJ Open 2024;14:e083467. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-083467.*Joint supervising authors.
Vu Minh D, Nguyen Thi Hong Y, Nagraj S, et al. Determinants of antibiotic prescribing in primary care in Vietnam: a qualitative study using the Theoretical Domains Framework. Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control. 2024 Sep 30;13(1):115.
Zhao Y, Quadros W, Nagraj S, et al. Factors influencing the development, recruitment, integration, retention and career development of advanced practice providers in hospital health care teams: a scoping review. BMC Medicine. 2024 Jul 8;22(1):286.
Razai MS, Berendes S, Nagraj S, Oakeshott P, Khalil A. As whooping cough rates rise, we urgently need to increase maternal vaccination rates. BMJ. 2024 Jun 13;385.
Maraschin FG, Adella FJ, Nagraj S. A scoping review of the post-discharge care needs of babies requiring surgery in the first year of life. PLOS Global Public Health. 2023 Nov 22;3(11):e0002424.
Nagraj S (Editorial). Global Surgery, Universal Health Coverage & the Spirit of Ubuntu. Journal of Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences. 2023: 4(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.37707/jnds.v4i2.255
Nagraj S, Kennedy S, Jha V. et al. A Mobile Clinical Decision Support System for High-Risk Pregnant Women in Rural India (SMARThealth Pregnancy): Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Formative Research. 2023 Jul 20;7:e44362.
Jones B, Paterson A, English M, Nagraj S. Improving child health service interventions through a theory of change: a scoping review. Frontiers in Pediatrics.2023;11:473.
Busa I, Nagraj S. Women as a driver to address gaps in the global surgical workforce. Human Resources for Health. 2023;21(1):1-4.
Wang H, English M, Chakma S, Namedre M, Hill E, Nagraj S. The roles of physician associates and advanced nurse practitioners in the National Health Service in the UK: a scoping review and narrative synthesis. Human Resources for Health. 2022 Sep 15;20(1):69.
Nagraj S, Kennedy SH, Jha V, Norton R, Hinton L, Rajan E, Arora V, Praveen D, Hirst JE. SMARThealth Pregnancy: Feasibility and acceptability of a complex intervention for high-risk pregnant women in rural India: Protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. Frontiers in Global Women’s Health: May 2021.
Nagraj S, Kennedy SH, Norton R, Jha V, Praveen D, Hinton L, Hirst JE. Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Pregnancy and Implications for Long-Term Health: Identifying the Research Priorities for Low-Resource Settings. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 2020 Mar 20;7:40.
Nagraj S, Hinton L, Praveen D, Kennedy S, Norton R, Hirst J. Women's and healthcare providers’ perceptions of long‐term complications associated with hypertension and diabetes in pregnancy: a qualitative study. British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (BJOG). 2019 Aug 16.
Winters N, Langer L, Nduku P, Robson J, O'Donovan J, Maulik P, Paton C, Geniets A, Peiris D, Nagraj S. Using mobile technologies to support the training of community health workers in low-income and middle-income countries: mapping the evidence. BMJ Global Health. 2019 Jul 1;4(4):e001421.
O’Donovan J, O’Donovan C, Nagraj S. The role of community health workers in cervical cancer screening in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review of the literature. BMJ Global Health. 2019 May 1;4(3):e001452. Nagraj S, Gillam, S. Patient Participation Groups (Editorial). British Medical Journal, 2011; 342: d2333
Teaching and Supervisions
MPhil Population Health Sciences: Module Lead: Health Systems for All Co-Theme Lead: Global Health Lecturer: Behavioural Science Module
Global Health, Intervention design & evaluation, Maternal Child Health, Health Systems & Policy Research.
Ben Jones: https://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/team/benjamin-jones Duy Vu Minh: https://www.oucru.org/people/vu-minh-duy/ Nguyen Thi Cam Tu: https://www.oucru.org/people/nguyen-thi-cam-tu/ Elvin Irihamye: https://www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/team/elvin-irihamye Gemma Whyatt: Academic Clinical Fellow, University of Cambridge
Other Professional Activities
Associate Editor for Frontiers in Health Services: Patient Safety in Low Resource Settings NIHR Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Team Brent Advisory Board East London NHS Foundation Trust: Marmot Implementation and Learning Advisory Group
