Ainul Hanafiah

Ainul Hanafiah

Department of Research, Innovation and Enterprise, Department of Research, Innovation and Enterprise

Research, Innovation and Enterprise ,

Areas Of Interest

  • Global health
  • Mental health
  • Community-based services
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Health services and policies
  • Children and young people's wellbeing
Ainul Hanafiah

OVERVIEW

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.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Wiggins, M. et al., 2020. Group antenatal care (Pregnancy Circles) for diverse and disadvantaged women: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial with integral process and economic evaluations. BMC Health Services Research, 20:919
  • Howarth, E., Vainre, M., Humphrey, A., Lombardo, C., Hanafiah, A.N., Anderson, J.K. and Jones, P.B., 2019. Delphi study to identify key features of community-based child and adolescent mental health services in the East of England. BMJ Open, 9(6), p.e022936.
  • Hanafiah, A.N. and Van Bortel, T., 2015. A qualitative exploration of the perspectives of mental health professionals on stigma and discrimination of mental illness in Malaysia. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 9(1), p.10.