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• Global health and behaviour change
• 'Languageless' animated health communication
• N-of-1 (single case) methodology
• Digital and blended (digital + human) health behaviour change interventions
• Community pharmacy supported interventions for chronic health conditions
• Physical activity behaviour change
• Arthritis and musculoskeletal health
• Intervention co-design with stakeholders

• Research Design: Overview and Recommendations, O'Brien, N. 29 Jan 2025, The Routledge International Handbook of Health Psychology, London, Routledge
• Animations to communicate public health prevention messages: a realist review protocol, McCorry, K., Maniatopoulos, G., Errington, L., Land, E., Craig, M., Vijaykumar, S., Bärnighausen, T., O'Brien, N. 9 Aug 2024, In: BMJ Open
• Co-development and testing of an extended community pharmacy model of service delivery for managing osteoarthritis: protocol for a sequential, multi-methods study (PharmOA), Babatunde, O., Cottrell, E., White, S., Chudyk, A., Healey, E., Edwards, J., Nicholls, E., O’Brien, N., Todd, A., Walker, C., Stanford, C., Cork, T., Long, A., Simkins, J., Mallen, C., Dziedzic, K., Holden, M. 12 Jan 2024, In: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
• Defining the Traditional Mediterranean Lifestyle: Joint International Consensus Statement, Sidossis, L., Lawson, R., Aprilakis, E., Barata, B., Baska, A., Beneka, A., Bird, R., Birrell, F., Chatzinikola, C., Chondronikola, M., Chrousos, G., Conduit, R., Constantinou, C., de Courten, B., Cvejic, J., Davis, A., Demetriou, C., Errington, L., Feehan, J., Figueroa, C., Flynn, M., Frates, B., Kabthymer, R., Karagounis, L., Karimi, L., Kennedy, G., Kolokotroni, O., Korovljev, D., Kouris‐Blazos, A., Kushkestani, M., Kyriakides, T., Hutanu, E., Mosquera, M., Nikiphorou, E., O'Brien, N., Philippou, E., Piątek, K., Poole, S., Popescu‐Spineni, D., Radd‐Vagenas, S., Sidossis, A., Simonis, M., Soultanakis, H., Telinga, A., Tierney, A., Tkacz, A., Vlachopoulos, D., Yaman‐Dent, G., Yap, Y., Zervides, Z., Itsiopoulos, C. 1 Oct 2024, In: Lifestyle Medicine
• Exploring the potential extended role of community pharmacy in the management of osteoarthritis: A multi‐methods study with pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals, Simkins, J., Holden, M., Babatunde, O., White, S., Nicholls, E., Long, A., Dziedzic, K., Chudyk, A., Todd, A., Walker, C., Stanford, C., Cottrell, E., Edwards, J., Healey, E., Cork, T., Mallen, C., O’Brien, N. 7 Mar 2024, In: Musculoskeletal Care
• Facilitators and barriers to engaging in expressive writing among health and social care professionals, Smith, M., Hoult, L., Rippon, D., O'Brien, N., Branley-Bell, D., Byrne-Davis, L., Collins, C., Gallagher, S., Kinman, G., Mark, A., O'Connor, D., Vedhara, K., Wetherell, M. 28 Oct 2024
• Filling in the Gaps. Making Sense of Living with Temporomandibular Disorders: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis, Penlington, C., Durham, J., O'Brien, N., Green, R. 1 Oct 2024, In: JDR Clinical and Translational Research
• Health and lifestyle advice in community pharmacy for musculoskeletal conditions: a focused ethnography, Long, A., O'Brien, N., Rapley, T., Dziedzic, K. 29 Apr 2024, In: International Journal of Pharmacy Practice
• Impact of a social prescribing intervention in North East England on adults with type 2 diabetes: the SPRING_NE multimethod study, Moffatt, S., Wildman, J., Pollard, T., Gibson, K., Wildman, J., O'Brien, N., Griffith, B., Morris, S., Moloney, E., Jeffries, J., Pearce, M., Mohammed, W. 30 Mar 2023, In: Public Health Research
• Uptake of diabetes follow-up checks by minority community groups: a rapid review of the evidence for the CYMELL study, Spencer, L., Albustami, M., Porter, A., Naha, G., Thomas, R., Rees, S., Stewart, R., Hettiarachchi, T., O'Brien, N., Edwards, R., Khanom, A. Nov 2023, In: The Lancet

• Development and implementation of support for pharmacists to delier integrated primary care for osteoarthritis, O'Brien, N. (Principal Investigator), National Institute for Health Research, 01/11/21 - 31/10/23, £10,480.00
• The influene of culture, religion and identity for patients from BAME background in accessing medicines review services, O'Brien, N. (Principal Investigator), National Institute for Health Research, 01/03/21 - 31/08/21, £1,091.00
• Evaluation of TILL Phase 2 (transfer in), O'Brien, N. (Principal Investigator), Swansea University, 01/06/20 - 31/07/20, £5,198.00
• Interventions in community organisations to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities, O'Brien, N. (Principal Investigator), National Institute for Health Research, 23/04/19 - 31/10/20, £8,944.00

• Membership of committee: National Institute of Health and Care Research Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship Selection Committee (External organisation) 2024
• Membership of committee: The British Psychological Society (External organisation) 2022
• Editorial work: Frontiers in Health Services (Journal) 2021
• Editorial work: Lifestyle Medicine (Journal) 2021
• Membership of committee: National Institute of Health and Care Research Pre-doctoral Local Authority Fellowship (External organisation) 2021
• Membership of committee: HEE-NIHR Integrated Clinical and Practitioner Academic Programme Selection Committee (External organisation) 2020
• Editorial work: British Journal of Health Psychology (Journal) 2012

• Colin Stephenson Exploring the impact and potential scalability of a group consultation, social prescribing intervention to tackle patient frequent appointment attendance in NHS primary care services. Start Date: 01/01/2023
• Angela Long “They’re pushing people towards pharmacy”: An exploration of community pharmacy’s role in the management of musculoskeletal conditions Start Date: 01/04/2021 End Date: 12/03/2025

Current PhD supervision:

David Bourne. Chronic pancreatitis: towards a comprehensive, patient-centred, evidence-based model of nutritional care. NIHR Clinical Doctoral Fellowship

Beckie Gibson. Understanding persuasive effects of message framing for vaccination uptake in university students. Northumbria Doctoral Studentship 

Chris Penlington. Persistent pain and self-management for orofacial pain. Newcastle University

Colin Stephenson. Ensuring the future sustainability of NHS primary care: applying a Group Consultation model in community pharmacy settings to help address population health inequalities. Northumbria Doctoral Studentship

• Psychology PhD June 01 2010
• Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society AFBPsS 2019
• Chartered Member British Psychological Society CPsychol 2011
• Registered Practitioner Psychologist, Health and Care Professions Council 2011