Major Grants

Lucy Yardley is co-investigator on twelve new digital health grants based at Bristol since Feb 2018, including:

• co-leading work-package developing digital interventions for reducing antimicrobial resistance in China (£2 million MRC Newton-China AMR partnership)
• co-leading work-package developing digital interventions for reducing antimicrobial resistance in UK hospitals (£2.5 million NIHR programme grant)
• TBC before Christmas – co-Director (Research) for EPSRC CDT in Digital Health and Social Care
• TBC before Christmas – Behavioural Science theme lead for NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West (to replace NIHR CLAHRC West)

Major findings

• Pioneered ‘Person-Based Approach’ to developing interventions proven to be cost-effective and now being disseminated for numerous health problems, including:

• Reducing infection transmission and antibiotic prescribing (Lancet 2015)
• Reducing obesity (Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, 2016)
• Self-management of asthma (Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2018)
• Controlling hypertension (full trial report in preparation)
• Back pain, cancer survivors, hospital antibiotic prescribing (full clinical trials ongoing)