Atulya Saxena

Dr Atulya Saxena is a Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion and Public Health in the College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare at the University of West London.  

He hails from a medical background with a degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the University of Pecs, Medical School, Hungary and a Masters in Public Health (MPH) from Yale University, School of Public Health, New Haven, USA. He also holds a post graduate certificate in Education, MA in Film Production from the Raindance Film School and Staffordshire University and MPhil in Public Health from the University of Oxford, England, and has been involved in research and teaching in Public Health for the last 20 years.  

Dr Saxena teaches modules in Medical Sciences, Epidemiology and Statistics, Health Promotion, Research Methods, Ethics, Gender, Sex and Health, as well as Mental Health and Health Policy.  

He worked for the Yale University Program on Aging with the Connecticut Mental Health Centre and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West Haven, Connecticut, USA on research towards the development of the YEESS Study and the validation of the scale.  He worked on the protocol development of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Ageing (CLSA), managed the project for the Nova Scotia Hepatitis C database Link project (NSHepLink), and helped develop the proposal for the Atlantic Interdisciplinary Research Network (AIRN) at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada.  He has also served as Research Officer and holds a Research Fellowship with the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at the University of Oxford. 

Dr Saxena has served on the Board of Directors of the Public Health Association of Nova Scotia (PHANS), as a Committee Member of the Future of Public Health in Canada, experts group member of the World Health Organization (WHO) team for Investment for Health in Romania and is a member of the American Public Health Association, the Canadian Public Health Association, the UK Faculty of Public Health and the Royal Society of Public Health. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  

Dr Saxena’s research interests include Healthy Ageing, Health Behaviour, Health Inequities and Infectious Disease.  He has contributed to numerous research articles and book chapters. His recent work was awarded by the UK Faculty of Public Health for “outstanding contribution to protecting the public’s health during the Covid-19 pandemic”.   

See Atulya Saxena's publications list in the UWL Repository.