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Wolfson Institute of Population Health

Dr Mel Ramasawmy

Mel

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Email: m.ramasawmy@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

I am a qualitative researcher working on the MODE study, which aims to understand when interim diagnoses represent missed opportunities to diagnose cancer. 

My background is in health policy, where I covered medicine and medical device safety, and social care. More recently my research has focused on patient experiences of care for long-term health conditions including cardiometabolic disease, Long Covid, obesity and depression; and on digital health inequalities in the South Asian population in the UK. 

 

Research

Research Interests:

•    Health services research
•    Health inequalities
•    Health policy
•    Digital health

Publications

  • Sunkersing D, Goodfellow H, Mu Y et al. (2024). Long COVID symptoms and demographic associations: A retrospective case series study using healthcare application data. nameOfConference


  • Ramasawmy M, Sunkersing D, Persson DR et al. (publicationYear). “If it all goes digital, we’ll have to learn”: facilitators and barriers to uptake of digital health in British South Asians with cardiometabolic disease. nameOfConference


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  • Sunkersing D, Ramasawmy M, Alwan NA et al. (2024). What is current care for people with Long COVID in England? A qualitative interview study. nameOfConference


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  • Clutterbuck D, Ramasawmy M, Pantelic M et al. (2024). Barriers to healthcare access and experiences of stigma: Findings from a coproduced Long Covid case‐finding study. nameOfConference


  • Ramasawmy M, Roland Persson D, Sunkersing D et al. (publicationYear). Uptake of digital health interventions for cardiometabolic disease: A ‘Think Aloud’ Study with British South Asian individuals (Preprint). nameOfConference


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  • Ramasawmy M, Khan N, Sunkersing D et al. (2023). Understanding ethnic inequalities in the design and implementation of digital health interventions for cardiometabolic disease: a qualitative study. nameOfConference


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  • Alwan NA, Clutterbuck D, Pantelic M et al. (publicationYear). Long Covid active case finding study protocol: A co-produced community-based pilot within the STIMULATE-ICP study (Symptoms, Trajectory, Inequalities and Management: Understanding Long-COVID to Address and Transform Existing Integrated Care Pathways). nameOfConference


  • Thorlu-Bangura Z, Poole L, Sood H et al. (2023). Correction to: Digital health, cardiometabolic disease and ethnicity: an analysis of United Kingdom government policies from 2010 to 2022. nameOfConference


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  • Thorlu-Bangura Z, Poole L, Sood H et al. (2023). Digital health, cardiometabolic disease and ethnicity: an analysis of United Kingdom government policies from 2010 to 2022. nameOfConference


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  • Bark P, Ramasawmy M, Hayward A et al. (2023). Integrated approach to cardiovascular disease in people experiencing homelessness: a qualitative study. nameOfConference


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  • Goswami A, Poole L, Thorlu-Bangura Z et al. (publicationYear). The Use of Digital Health Interventions for Cardiometabolic Diseases Among South Asian and Black Minority Ethnic Groups: Realist Review. nameOfConference


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  • van der Feltz-Cornelis CM, Sweetman J, Allsopp G et al. (publicationYear). STIMULATE-ICP-Delphi (Symptoms, Trajectory, Inequalities and Management: Understanding Long-COVID to Address and Transform Existing Integrated Care Pathways Delphi): Study protocol. nameOfConference


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  • Ramasawmy M, Mu Y, Clutterbuck D et al. (publicationYear). STIMULATE-ICP-CAREINEQUAL (Symptoms, Trajectory, Inequalities and Management: Understanding Long-COVID to Address and Transform Existing Integrated Care Pathways) study protocol: Defining usual care and examining inequalities in Long Covid support. nameOfConference


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  • Ramasawmy M, Poole L, Thorlu-Bangura Z et al. (publicationYear). Frameworks for Implementation, Uptake, and Use of Cardiometabolic Disease–Related Digital Health Interventions in Ethnic Minority Populations: Scoping Review. nameOfConference


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  • Ramasawmy M, Poole L, Banerjee A (2021). Learning our lesson: using past policies to improve digital and ethnic inequalities beyond the pandemic. nameOfConference


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  • Poole L, Ramasawmy M, Banerjee A (2021). Digital first during the COVID-19 pandemic: does ethnicity matter?. nameOfConference


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