Dr Catherine Jenkins

Dr Catherine Lynne Jenkins is Public Health Professional Development Lecturer & Research Fellow at London South Bank University. With a background in open access academic publishing and librarianship, she joined LSBU in 2019 for her doctorate in public health and continued as a staff member from 2022 onwards. 

Catherine has a dual role. She supports public health workforce development by leading on the delivery of masterclasses to prepare public health practitioners to apply for professional registration with the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR). With her research hat on, she leads work packages as part of PHIRST South Bank, a NIHR-funded Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Team that evaluates local authority public health interventions across the UK to understand what works in improving population health and reducing inequalities. Learning from the evaluations feeds directly into the development of the masterclasses to ensure that they remain up-to-date and relevant to practice.

Catherine is Editor of the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education (IJHPE) and sits on the Editorial Board for two further journals, BMC Public Health and Journal of Institutional Ethnography. She has served as Vice-President of the Health Literacy Section within the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), curator of health literacy research for the Self-Care Observatory, and Joint Lead of the College of Health and Life Sciences Systematic Review Board at LSBU. 

She is particularly interested in settings-based approaches to health promotion, critical and organisational health literacy, the potential of public libraries as community public health allies, supportive environments for breastfeeding, and academic knowledge circulation.

Masterclass 1: Ethical and Professional Public Health Practice

Masterclass 2: Public Health Policy and Context

Masterclass 3: Introduction to Epidemiology

Masterclass 4: Evidence for Public Health

Masterclass 5: Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Public Health Interventions

Health Literacy and Health Promotion for Occupational Therapists