Dr Atulya Saxena is a Senior Lecturer and Course Lead for BSc (Hons) Public Health at Ruskin College.
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.
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 a Research Officer and holds a Research Fellowship with the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at the University of Oxford.
Teaching
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.
Research
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.