Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Jane Barlow

PERSONAL DETAILS

Full name and title: Professor Jane Barlow

Date of Birth: 26th October 1962

Department: Warwick Medical School

Title of current Appointment: Professor of Public Health in the Early Years

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

1989 – 1994 / Nuffield College,
University of Oxford
Thesis entitled: The psychosocial consequences of screening for raised cholesterol levels / Doctorate of Philosphy (DPhil)
1988 – 1989 / Oriel College,
University of Oxford
Thesis entitled: Health- the embodiment of a dilemma /
Master of Science (MSc)
1985 – 1988 / University of Warwick
Sociology with Social Administration / Bachelor of Art (BA)(Hons)
First Class

CONTINUING EDUCATION

1996 – 1998 / Dept Continuing Education,
University of Oxford
Evidence Based Health Care / Postgraduate Diploma

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

2003 / Institute for the Advancement of University Learning, University of Oxford
First Line Management / Introductory Certificate
1982 – 1985 / Pilgrim Hospital School of Nursing
Boston, Lincs / Registered General
Nurse

APPOINTMENTS HELD

2007 - date / Professor of Public Health
Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick
2004 - 2007 / Reader in Public Health
Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick
2003 – 2005 / Acting Deputy Director
Health Services Research Unit, University of Oxford
1999 – 2005 / Primary Care Career Scientist
Health Services Research Unit, University of Oxford
2001 – 2005 / Titular Lectureship
Dept of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford
1996 – 1999 /
MRC NHS Special Training Fellowship
Health Services Research Unit, University of Oxford
1994 – 1996 /
Post Doctoral Research Officer
Health Services Research Unit, University of Oxford
1994 – 1994 / Post Doctoral Research Officer (part-time)
Dept of Social Studies and Social Research, University of Oxford
1994 – 1994 / Research Officer (part-time)
Oxfordshire Social Services
1991 – 1993 /
Research Officer (part-time)
Dept of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford

FELLOWSHIPS

1999 – 2004 Primary Care Career Scientist, Department of Health

1996 – 1999 NHS Special Training Fellowship, Medical Research Council

MEMBERSHIP OF LEARNED OR PROFESSIONAL BODIES

2010 to date Chair Elect Association of Infant Mental Health

2006 to date Honorary Fellow of Faculty of Public Health

2000 - 2006 Honorary Member of Faculty of Public Health

2001 to date Member of Society for Social Medicine

JOURNAL EDITORSHIPS

Editor

2012 - date Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Member of Editorial Board

2010 – date Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning

Disorders Group

2008 – date Journal of Children’s Services

2008 – 2011 Child Abuse Review

MEMBERSHIP OF FUNDING BODIES

2011 – date NIHR Programme Grant – subpanel for mental health

2009 – date HTA Psychosocial and Communities Panel prioritization group

PUBLICATIONS

Barlow J, Underdown A, Manjula. (in production 2012). Interventions to promote parental sensitivity in pre-term infants: A systematic review. ?Pediatrics.

Barlow J, Sembi S, Gardner F, MacDonald G, etc (2012 – submitted). RCT of the Effectiveness of the Parents under Pressure programme: Study Protocol. Biomed Central.

Jarrett P, Barlow J (2012 – submitted). Clinical supervision in the provision of intensive home visiting to high risk mothers. Child Abuse Review

Barlow J, Coe C. (2012 – in press). Integrating Partner Professionals: The Early Explorers Project. Child: Care, Health and Development.
Underdown A, Barlow J, Bennett C (2012 – in press). Systematic review of the effectiveness of infant massage. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Barlow J, Smailagic N, Hubard N, Bennett C (2012 – in press). Parenting programmes for improving parental psychosocial health. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Hibbard R, Barlow J, Macmillan H (2012 – in press). Psychological Maltreatment. Pediatrics.

Barlow J, Calam R (in press 2011). A public health approach to safeguarding in the 21st Century. Child Abuse Review 20(4), 238-255.

Caramlau I, Barlow J, Sembi S McKenzie-McHarg K, McCabe C (2011). Mums 4 Mums: structured telephone peer-support for women experiencing postnatal depression. Pilot and exploratory RCT of its clinical and cost effectiveness. BioMED Central.

Underdown A, Barlow J (2011). Interventions to support early relationships: mechanisms identified within infant massage programmes. Community Practitioner 84 (4).

Barlow J, Smailagic N, Bennett C, Huband N, Jones H, Coren E (2011). Individual and group-based parenting programmes for improving psychosocial outcomes for teenage parents and their children. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Barlow J, Smailagic N, Ferriter M, Bennett C, Jones H (2010). 'Group-based parent-training programmes for improving emotional and behavioural adjustment in 0-3 year old children', Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (2).

Barlow J, Schrader McMillan A, Kirkpatrick S, Ghate D, Barnes J, Smith M (2010). 'Evidence for health-led interventions in the postnatal period to enhance infant and maternal mental health: A review of reviews', Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 15(4), 178-185.

Barlow, J, Whitlock S, Hanson S, Davis H, Hunt C, Kirkpatrick S and Rudolf M (2010). 'Preventing obesity at weaning: parental views about the EMPOWER programme' Child: Care, Health and Development, 36(6), 843 – 849.

Coe C, Barlow J (2010). Working in partnership with the voluntary sector: Early Explorer clinics. Community Practitioner 83(11), 33-37.

Underdown A, Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S (2010) 'Infant Massage: Findings of a Systematic Review', Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 28(1), 11-29.

Barlow J (2010). Safeguarding Children in Primary Health Care
Public Health 124 (4), 241 - 241.

Barlow J, Schrader McMillan, Redshaw Maggie (2009). Birth and Beyond: A review of the Evidence about Antenatal Education. DH: London.

Barlow J, Svanberg P (Eds) (2009). Keeping the Baby in Mind: Infant Mental Health in Practice. London: Routledge.

MacMillan HL, Wathen CN, Barlow J, Fergusson D, Leventhal JM, Taussig HN 'Interventions to prevent child maltreatment and associated impairment', The Lancet 373, 250 – 266.

Dretzke, J., Davenport, C., Frew, E., Barlow, J., Stewart-Brown, S., Bayliss, S., Taylor, R.S., Sandercock, J., Hyde, C. (2009) 'The clinical effectiveness of different parenting programmes for children with conduct problems: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials', BMC Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 3 (7).

McIntosh E, Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S, Davis H (2009) 'Economic evaluation of an intensive home visiting programme: A cost-effectiveness analysis from a societal perspective', Journal of Public Health 31(3) 423-433

Dretzke, J., Davenport, C., Frew, E., Barlow, J., Stewart-Brown, S., Bayliss, S., Taylor, R.S., Sandercock, J., Hyde, C. (2009) 'The clinical effectiveness of different parenting programmes for children with conduct problems: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials', BMC Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 3 (7).

Harriss L, Paul M, Barlow J (2008) 'Stakeholder perspectives about the use of a therapeutic milieu approach to the treatment of severe emotional and behavioural problems', Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 31 (1), 31 – 48.

Kendrick D, Barlow J, Hampshire A, Stewart-Brown S, Polnay L (2008) 'Parenting interventions and the prevention of unintentional injuries in childhood: systematic review and meta-analysis', Child: Care, Health And Development, 34 (5), 682 – 695.

Barlow J, Davis H, McIntosh E, Jarrett P, Mockford C, Stewart-Brown S (2007). The role of home visiting in improving parenting and health in families at risk of abuse and neglect: Results of a multicentre randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation. Archives of Disease in Childhood 92, 229-233.

Tennant R, Barlow J, Goens C, Stewart-Brown S (2007). A systematic review of interventions to promote mental health and prevent mental illness in children and young people Journal of Public Mental Health 6(1), 25-32.

Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S (2007) Reducing abuse using parenting programmes. Child Right.

Kirkpatrick S, Barlow J, Davis S, Stewart-Brown S (2007). Working in Partnership: Vulnerable women’s perceptions of health visitors following participation in an intensive home visiting study. Child Abuse Review.

Kane GA, Wood VA, Barlow J (2007). Parenting Programmes: A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research. Child: Care, Health and Development 33(6), 784-793.

Underdown A, Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S (2006). Systematic review of the effectiveness of infant massage. Cochrane Library, Issue 4.

Barlow J, Simpkiss D, Stewart-Brown S (2006). Interventions to prevent or ameliorate child physical abuse and neglect: Findings from a systematic review. Journal of Children’s Services 1 (3), 6 – 28.

Carter Y, Bannon, M, Limbert C, Docherty, A, Barlow J (2006). Improving Child Protection: A systematic review of training and procedural interventions. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 91, 740-743.

Frederick K and Barlow J (2006). The Citizenship Safety project: A Pilot Study. Journal of Health Education, 21, 87-96.

Barlow J, Johnston I, Kendrick D, Polnay L, Stewart-Brown S (2006). Systematic review of the effectiveness of parenting programmes in treating abusive parenting. Cochrane Library, Issue 3, pp. 1-20.

Barlow J, Underdown A (2005). Promoting the social and emotional health of children: where to now? Journal of the Royal Society of Health promotion, 125(2), 64-70.

Barlow J, Parsons J, Stewart-Brown (2005). Systematic review of the effectiveness of group based parenting programmes for infants and toddlers. Child: Care, Health and Development, 31 (1), 33-42.

Mockford C, Barlow J (2005). Parenting programmes: Some unintended consequences. Primary Care Research and Development, 19, 199-210.

Barlow J, Kirkpatrick S, Stewart-Brown S, Davis H (2005). Hard-to-reach or out-of-reach? Reasons why women refuse to take part in early interventions. Children and Society, 19, 199-210.

Dretzke J, Frew E, Davenport C, Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S, Sandercock J, Bayliss S, Raftery J, Hyde C, Taylor R (2005). The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of parent training/education programmes for the treatment of conduct disorders, including oppositional defiant disorders, in children. Birmingham: West Midlands Health Technology Assessment Collaboration, University of Birmingham, March, 9(50), 1-250.

S Stewart-Brown, J Patterson, C Mockford, J Barlow, I Klimes, and C Pyper (2004). Impact of a general practice based group parenting programme: quantitative and qualitative results from a controlled trial at 12 months. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 89, 519 – 525.

Brocklehurst N, Barlow J, Kirkpatrick S, Davis H, Stewart-Brown S (2004). The contribution of health visitors to supporting vulnerable children and families through intensive home visiting. Community Practitioner, 77 (5), 175- 179.

Peters R, Barlow J (2004). Systematic review of screening instruments to identify child abuse during the perinatal period. Child Abuse Review, 12, 416-439.

Barlow J, Spencer N, Coe C, Laine L,Vostanis P (2004). Behaviour problems: Innovative approaches. Community Practitioner, 77(2), 50-54.

Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S (2004). Promoting good parenting: The paediatrician’s role. Current Paediatrics, 14 (2), April, 160-166.

Coe C, Laine L, Spencer N, Barlow J, Vostanis P (2003). Services in Coventry for pre-school children with behaviour problems. Child: Care and Development, 29(6), 417-424.

Barlow J, Brocklehurst N, Stewart-Brown S, Davis H, Burns C, Callaghan H, Tucker J (2003). Working in partnership: The development of a home visiting service for vulnerable families. Child Abuse Review, 12, 172-189.

Barlow J (2003). Parenting and psychosocial development. Journal of Health Care Professionals, May, 71-72.

Wells J, Barlow J, Stewart-Brown (2003). A systematic review of universal approaches to mental health promotion in schools. Health Education, 103(4), 197-220.

Coren E, Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S. (2002). Systematic review of the effectiveness of parenting programmes for teenage parents. Journal of Adolescence, 26(1), 79-103.

Patterson J, Barlow J, Mockford C, Klimes I, Pyper C, Stewart-Brown S (2002). Improving mental health among children and their parents through parenting programmes in general practice: A randomised controlled trial. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 87, 472-477.

Patterson J, Mockford C, Barlow J, Pyper C, Stewart-Brown S (2002). Need and demand for parenting programmes in a general practice setting. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 87, 468-471.

Barlow J, Coren E, Stewart-Brown S (2002). Meta-analysis of parenting programmes in improving maternal psychosocial health. British Journal of General Practice, 52, 223-233.

Barlow J, Parsons J. (2002). Group-based parent-training programmes for improving emotional and behavioural health adjustment in 0-3 children (Cochrane Review). In: The Cochrane Library, Issue 2. Oxford: Update Software, pp, 1-30.

Barlow J, Coren E (2001). Review: Group-based parent training programmes lead to short term improvements in maternal psychosocial health. Evidence Based Nursing, 4(3), 81.

Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S (2001). Understanding parenting programmes: parents’ views. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 2, 117-130.

Coren E, Barlow J (2001). Parenting programmes for teenage parents. Issue 4, 2001 Oxford: Update Software. The Cochrane Library, pp. 1-24.

Coren E, Barlow J (2000). Individual and group-based parenting programme for improving psychosocial outcomes for teenage parents and their children. Issue 3, 2000 Oxford: Update Software. The Cochrane Library, pp 1-24.

Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S (2000). Review article: behavior problems and parent-training programs. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 21(5), 356-370.

Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S, Fletcher J (1998). Systematic review of the school health services. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 78(4), 301-311.

Barlow J (1997). Evidence-based health care: Management and practice. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 2(4), 251-2.

Letters and Editorials

Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S (2005). Child Abuse and Neglect: Commentary. Lancet 365, 1750 – 1751.

Barlow J (2003). Public health – future challenges (editorial). Community Practitioner, 76(3), 73.

Stewart-Brown S, Patterson J, Barlow J (2003). Universal versus high-risk approaches to health promotion (Letter to Editor). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 88, 553-a.

Stewart-Brown S, Patterson J, Barlow J (2003). Improving mental health through parenting programmes: are the results valid? (Author’s reply). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 88, 553.

Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S (2003). Why a universal population-level approach to the prevention of child abuse is essential (Letter to Editor). Child Abuse Review, 12(5), 279-281.

Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S (2002). Antenatal anxiety, parenting and emotional/behavioural problems in children (Letter to Editor). British Journal of Psychiatry, 181, 440-441.

Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S (2001). Costs and effectiveness of community post-natal support workers (Letter to Editor). British Medical Journal, 322, 301.

Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S, Fletcher J (1999). Systematic review of the school entry medical examination. (Correspondence column). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 80(1), 101.

Barlow J, Enoch K, Elbourne D, Withnell S (1999). Project Charlie (Letter to Editor). Addiction, 93(12), 1875-1878.