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Doctor Merlin Willcox

Dr Merlin Willcox

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Global maternal and child health
  • Antibiotic stewardship
  • Systematic reviews

More research

Connect with Merlin

Email: M.L.Willcox@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 1771

Address: Aldermoor Health Centre, Aldermoor Close, Lordswood, SO16 5ST
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Research Publications Teaching External roles and responsibilities Biography
Research Publications Teaching External roles and responsibilities Biography

Research

Research groups

Research interests

  • Global maternal and child health
  • Antibiotic stewardship
  • Systematic reviews
  • Clinical Trials
  • Herbal Medicine

Research projects

Active projects

Optimising Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Review to prevent future deaths (Opti-MaP)
Antenatal Couples Counselling in Uganda -Impact
Researchers:
Doctor Merlin Willcox
Can novel ureteric stents offer a better patient outcome compared to existing standard ureteric stent (CASSETTE)
Emotional well-being of young asylum seekers of African origin living in the UK: Developing a holistic and culturally adapted support through participatory research

Completed projects

Antenatal Couples’ Counselling in Uganda (ACCU)
Sponsor: Medical Research Council
Family Planning: Fact or Fiction?
Sponsor: Medical Research Council
Optimising MPDSR
Researchers:
Doctor Merlin Willcox
Sponsor: Research England
Germ defence for care homes
Researchers:
Doctor Merlin Willcox
Improving management of post-traumatic stress in orphans and vulnerable children in Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda.
CHAT COPD
Andrographis paniculata for respiratory tract infections
Rapid Participatory Co-Design & Implementation of an Evidence-based Digital Behaviour Change Intervention to Improve Hand Hygiene & Limit the Spread of the 2019-nCoV outbreak
Community pharmacists' perception of using herbal medicine in acute infections
Respiratory viral illness and transmission dynamics
Fenugreek for Type 2 Diabetes