Justin Webb
Justin has been working in the field of public health for many years both as a practitioner and as a researcher. Justin's former roles include working as the Director of the Centre for Workplace and Community Health at St Mary's University, and as a National Engagement Manager for Macmillan Cancer Support, leading on the charity's healthy lifestyles programme. Justin leads the Public Health MSc programme at the University.
 
Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Justin Webb

Justin Webb

Justin has been working in the field of public health for many years, both as a practitioner and as a researcher. Justin's former roles include working as the Director of the Centre for Workplace and Community Health at St Mary's University, and as a National Engagement Manager for Macmillan Cancer Support, leading on the charity's healthy lifestyles programme. Justin is a fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health.
Justin has taught across a range of modules at a postgraduate level including health improvement, epidemiology, health protection and the Public Health dissertation project. In addition, he has taught public health and health promotion, and employability skills at an undergraduate level.
 
Justin teaches on the Public Health MSc and Health and Social Care Management and Policy MSc courses as well as leading dissertation projects.
Justin's research interest is in behavioural and social science and public health, particularly in lifestyle behaviours in people with long-term conditions.

He is part of the Centre for Primary Health and Social Care but has also worked in collaboration with the School of Art, Architecture and Design, and the Performance with Purpose Research Centre.

Justin is part of the LondonMet Lab: Empowering London project, leading on the Health Improvement Challenge.
 
Justin has been awarded the following funding:
  1. Versus Arthritis: £90,000 to evaluate their physical activity programme
  2. Rescaling Fund, London Metropolitan University: £2,485 to fund collaboration between the School of Art, Architecture and Design and the School of Social Professions bringing the discipline of behavioural science together with architecture, public health, and environmental science, aiming to influence pro-environmental behaviours. In partnership with Dr Sian Moxon.
  3. Kusuma Trust: £58,232 to fund research to understand and change the behaviour of urban rewilding, expanding on the Rescaling Fund.
London Met is an accredited training provider for the Royal Society for Public Health and delivers two week-long summer schools, offering professional qualifications to students and the public health workforce alike.
 
Justin is also a member of the Versus Arthritis physical activity advisory group and currently sits on the Alzheimer's Society physical activity expert advisory group.

Justin's esteem factors include:

  1. British Medical Association Patient Information Award 2017: Macmillan Move More Pack
  2. British Medical Association Patient Information Award 2017: Macmillan Move More Pack, issued by British Medical Association September 2017
  3. London Met Labs Health Improvement
  4. Macmillan Professionals Conference 2016
  5. Videos from the National Cancer Research Institute Conference for the European Medical Journal in 2015
    1. Keeping active with Macmillan Cancer Support
    2. Helping healthcare professionals initiate conversations about physical activity

Recent publications include:

 

Dr. Justin Webb
Associate Professor of Public Health
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