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Dr Diola Bijlhout BA, MSc, PhD

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Wearing a suit jacket and sitting in an office chair, Dr Diola Bijlhout smiles towards the camera.

Programme Manager for the MSc Public Health and Social Care in Practice

Institute of Inner City Learning


Email: d.bijlhout@uwtsd.ac.uk

Role in the University

  • Programme Manager for the MSc Public Health and Social Care in Practice.
  • Lecturer in Health and Social Care

Background

Diola received a PhD in Education at the University of Greenwich in London on the subject of promoting and evaluating the health and wellbeing of young people based on an innovative educational framework. She is a graduate from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in Health Economics, Policy and Law with a thesis on the power of patient associations during health policy reforms.

She combines excellent practice and research expertise with lecturing and program management responsibilities at the London campus of the ϳԹ. Diola has an international scope and has worked with researchers at the Ben Gurion University (Israel), the University of Leuven (Belgium), and University College London (UK), and has taught numerous subjects in the field of health and social care across different countries.

Member Of

ATEE Chair of the Research & Development Community of Health, Environment and Sustainability Education (2019 – current)

Academic Interests

  • Public Health Management
  • Social Care Governance
  • Cross disciplinary approaches in Health Economics
  • International Health Systems
  • Global Health
  • Research and Data Analysis

Enterprise, Commercial and Consultancy Activities

  • Support organisations by providing health/social care and research expertise to improve health status of populations, services, and educational approaches.
  • Successfully developed a reporting format for an international charity in London to impact government policy.
  • Successfully developed evaluation research to assess a newly designed clinical diabetes care pathway.

Publications

  • Bijlhout, D., Vilaca, T., and Chewitt-Lucas, R. (2023). Best Teaching Practices in Environmental Sustainability Education: A Cross-Country Comparison. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
  • Magaji, A., Ade-Ojo, G. A., Bijlhout, D., (2022), The Impact of After School Science Club on the Learning Progress and Attainment of Students, International Journal of Instruction. Vol.15 (3), pp. 171-190. 
  • Muraro, A, Bijlhout, D., et al., (2021). EAACI guideline: Anaphylaxis (2021 update), Allergy European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology,2021. 
  • Silva, D, Bijlhout, D., et al., (2020).  Diagnosing, managing and preventing anaphylaxis: Systematic review, Allergy European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2020 (00), 1–14. 
  • Bijlhout, D., (2015). “Vulnerable migrants’ ability to register with GP’s in Greater London: assessing General Practice behaviour”, Report -Doctors of the World, London. 
  • Neyens, I., Bijlhout, D., Vermeulen, B., and Van Audenhove, C.H. (2015). “Psychosocial needs and support for men with prostate cancer and their spouse”Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, Vol. 71 (16), 1019 – 1024.  
  • Bijlhout, D., Neyens, I., Vermeulen, B., and Van Audenhove, CH. (2013). Report “Qualitative data results of the psychosocial needs of men diagnosed with prostate cancer and their partners in Flanders”. LUCAS, Leuven University, Belgium.  
  • Vermeulen, B. Bijlhout, D., DeSmet, A., Neyens, I., and Van Audenhove, CH. (2013). Report “Quantitative data results of the psychosocial needs of men diagnosed with prostate cancer and their partners in Flanders”. LUCAS, Leuven University, Belgium.
  • Bijlhout, D., DeSmet, A., Schrijfers, J., and Van Audenhove, Ch. (2011). Report “Psychosocial support for the needs of men with prostate cancer and their partners in Flanders”. LUCAS, Leuven, Belgium.

Additional Information

Acts as a peer reviewer for:

  • The Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE)