Amanda Sowden
Deputy Director
Email: amanda.sowden@york.ac.uk
Tel: 01904 321071
Fax: 01904 321041
Amanda is Deputy Director at CRD and has been involved in evidence synthesis for over fifteen years. Amanda’s research interests are focused on evaluating the effects of complex interventions, particularly those used in public health on health and health inequalities. She has contributed to method development including the production of guidance on narrative synthesis and the publication of a method for synthesising evidence about the differential effects of interventions.
She is a collaborator in the DH Policy Research Programme funded Public Health Research Consortium. She is currently a member of the Steering Group for the Health Promotion and Public Health Reviews Facility (EPPI-Centre, University of London) and of the Advisory Group for the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (one of six National Collaborating Centres for Public Health in Canada). She has served on The Quality Assurance Board for The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and on the Campbell Collaboration Steering Group.Current research projects
Interventions for alcohol and drug misuse in acute settings: a systematic review
Multiple risk behaviours and interventions to reduce multiple risk behaviours
Using qualitative research to inform interventions to reduce smoking in pregnancy in England: a systematic review of qualitative studiesSelected publications
Gibson M, Petticrew M, Bambra C, Sowden AJ, Wright KE, Whitehead M. Housing and health inequalities: A synthesis of systematic reviews of interventions aimed at different pathways linking housing and health. Health & Place doi: DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.09.011
Bambra C, Gibson M, Sowden AJ, Wright K, Whitehead M, Petticrew M. Tackling the wider social determinants of health and health inequalities: evidence from systematic reviews. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2010; 64(4):284-91
Rithalia A, McDaid C, Suekarran S, Myers L, Sowden A. Impact of presumed consent for organ donation on donation rates: a systematic review. BMJ. 2009;338:a3162
Rodgers M, Sowden A, Petticrew M, Arai L, Roberts H, Britten N, Popay J. Testing methodological guidance on the conduct of narrative synthesis in systematic reviews: effectiveness of interventions to promote smoke alarm ownership and function. Evaluation 2009;15:49-73
Ogilvie D, Fayter D, Petticrew M, Sowden A, Thomas S, Whitehead M, Worthy G. The harvest plot: a method for synthesising evidence about the differential effects of interventions. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2008; 8:8
McDaid C, Trowman R, Golder S, Hawton K, Sowden A. Interventions for people bereaved through suicide: a systematic review. Br J Psychiatry 2008;193:438-43