Ainul Hanafiah

Ainul Hanafiah, PhD (Cantab) is a Research Fellow at Institute for Connected Communities, University of East London. Her research experience is in global health with wider interests in mental health, community-based services and interventions, and children and young people's wellbeing. Her expertise is in programme/service evaluation, qualitative and mixed methods research. She is currently leading a viability assessment of implementing the NHS social prescribing in the context of urban Malaysia. Ainul has been involved in various local and global health, community, and safeguarding-related projects such as:

1. Youth safeguarding in Africa,
2. exploring the sustainability of community assets for mental health in England,
3. large multi-programme of group antenatal care for diverse and disadvantaged women in England,
4. process evaluation of the diabetic retinopathy care implementation in primary care in Kerala, India,
5. evaluation of the NHS Social Prescribing service in London borough of Redbridge,
6. identification of priorities for the delivery of community-based Child and Adolescent Mental health Services (CAMHS) in England, and
7. evaluation of the Malaysian Mental Health Policy implementation in Malaysia.