Biography
Professor Mike Kelly is Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. Between 2005 and 2014 he was the Director of the Centre for Public Health at NICE, where he led the teams producing public health guidelines. He has advised the House of Commons Health Select Committee and been a witness before parliamentary committees on a number of occasions. He has chaired committees for MRC, ESRC, the Foods Standards Agency, PHE and OHID. From 2005 to 2007 he directed the methodology work stream for the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. He has a continuing interest in health inequalities and is pursuing a programme of research in Cambridge on this topic. His other research interests include end of life care, the methods and philosophy of evidence-based medicine, prevention of heart disease, health related behaviour change, the causes of non-communicable disease, dental public health, transport and health, and the sociology of chronic illness.
Research
Inequalities in health, end of life care, the methods and philosophy of evidence-based medicine, prevention of heart disease, health related behaviour change, the causes of non-communicable disease, dental public health, transport and health, and the sociology of chronic illness.
Publications
JOHNSTON, M., CAREY, R., CONNELL BOHLEN, L., JOHNSTON, D.W., ROTHMAN, A.J., DE BRUIN, M., KELLY, M.P., GROARKE, H., MICHIE, S. (2020) Development of an online tool for linking behavior change techniques and mechanisms of action based on triangulation of findings from literature synthesis and expert consensus, Translational Behavioral Medicine. https://academic.oup.com/tbm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/tbm/ibaa050/5880520?guestAccessKey=879892ca-40df-40e4-aae6-c46546c43670 https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibaa050
KELLY, R., KELLY, M.P., KELLY,P. (2020) Metabolomics, Physical Activity, Exercise and health; a Review of the Current Evidence , BBA-Molecular Basis of Disease; 1866 (12) 165936 December 2020, https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1be2Q3IQ~q8HBw
BLUE, S., SHOVE, E., KELLY, M.P., (2021) Obese Societies: Reconceptualising the Challenge for Public Health, Sociology of Health and Illness; 43:1051-1067. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9566.13275 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/5QZ4KQZ8RPER3M6JV8PH?target=10.1111/1467-9566.13275 KELLY, M.P. (2021) The relation between the social and the biological and COVID-19, Public Health; 196: 18-23.. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2021.05.003 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350621001839
KELLY, M.P., RUSSO, F. (2021) The epistemic values at the basis of epidemiology and public health, Mefisto, 5(1): 105-120. http://www.edizioniets.com/scheda.asp?n=9788846761194&from=&fk_s=
KELLY, M.P., POWELL, J. BARTLE, N. (2021) Health needs assessment, Chapter 11.1 in Roger Detels, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Fran Baum, Liming Li, and Alastair Leyland (eds) Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health, Seventh edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Published online: Nov 2021 DOI: 10.1093/med/9780198816805.001.0001 Pages 559–572
JEPSON, R., BAKER, G., CLELAND, C., COPE, A., CRAIG, N., FOSTER, C., HUNTER, R., KEE, F., KELLY, M.P., KELLY, P., MILTON, K., NIGHTINGALE, G., TURNER, K., WILLIAMS, A.J., WOODCOCK, J. (2022) Developing and implementing 20-mph speed limits in Edinburgh and Belfast: mixed-methods study. Public Health Res 2022;10(9). https://doi.org/10.3310/XAZI9445 file://me-filer1/home$/mk744/Downloads/3040317%20(2).pdf
GOODWIN, M., EMSLEY, R., KELLY, M.P., SUTTON, M., TICKLE, M., WALSH, T., WHITTAKER, W., PRETTY, I.A. (2022) Evaluation of water fluoridation scheme in Cumbria: the CATFISH prospective longitudinal cohort study NIHR Final Report https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/phr/SHMX1584/#/full-report Public Health Research Volume: 10, Issue: 11, https://doi.org/10.3310/SHMX1584
RUSSO, F. KELLY, M.P. (2023) The 'lifeworld’ of health and disease and the design of public health interventions. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. 15 (1) 25-44. https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/llcs/aop/article-10.1332-175795921X16835353334712/article-10.1332-
KELLY, M.P., ARORA, A., BANERJEE, A., BIRCH, J.M., EKEKE, N., KUHN, I., BRAYNE, C., FORD, J., AQUINO, M.R.J., CAPPER, B. (2023) Review of the contribution of behavioural science to addressing the social and wider determinants of health: Evidence Review, Geneva: World Health Organisation. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/373964?search-result=true&query=determinants+behavioural&scope=&rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=desc
SHOVE, E., BLUE, S., KELLY, M.P. (2024) Categorising and Cohabiting: Practices as the Site of Biosocial Becoming, Social Theory and Health, DOI 10.1057/s41285-024-00204-7 file://me-filer1/home$/mk744/Downloads/s41285-024-00204-7.pdf
NOSRATI, E., STRETZER, S. KELLY, M.P. (2024) Infant mortality and social causality: lessons from the history of Britain’s public health movement, c. 1834–1914. British Journal of Sociology;75:681–699. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13121
Teaching and Supervisions
MPhil in Public Health
