Staff Profile
Dr Sunil Bhopal
Associate Clinical Lecturer
Publications
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Articles
- Breckons M, Thorne S, Walsh R, Bhopal S, Owens S, Rankin J. Parental perspectives on emergency health service use during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: A qualitative study. PLoS ONE 2023, 18(5), e0285375.
- Munro A, Buonsenso D, Gonzalez-Dambrauskas S, Hughes RC, Bhopal SS, Vasquez-Hoyos P, Cevik M, Rubio MLM, Roland D. In-person schooling is essential even during periods of high transmission of COVID-19. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 2023, 28(3), 175–179.
- Hughes RC, Bhopal SS, Manu AA, Van Heerden AC. Hacking childhood: will future technologies undermine, or enable, optimal early childhood development?. Archives of disease in childhood 2023, 108(2), 82-83.
- Kirkwood BR, Sikander S, Roy R, Soremekun S, Bhopal SS, Avan B, Lingam R, Gram L, Amenga-Etego S, Khan B, Aziz S, Kumar D, Verma D, Sharma KK, Panchal SN, Zafar S, Skordis J, Batura N, Hafeez A, Hill Z, Divan G, Rahman A. Effect of the SPRING home visits intervention on early child development and growth in rural India and Pakistan: parallel cluster randomised controlled trials. Frontiers in Nutrition 2023, 10, 1155763.
- Gadsby EW, Christie-de Jong F, Bhopal S, Corlett H, Turner S. Qualitative analysis of the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic response on paediatric health services in North of Scotland and North of England. BMJ Open 2022, 12(2), e056628.
- Molteni E, Canas LS, Klaser K, Deng J, Bhopal SS, Hughes RC, Chen L, Murray B, Kerfoot E, Antonelli M, Sudre CH, Pujol JC, Polidori L, May A, Hammers PA, Wolf J, Spector PTD, Steves CJ, Ourselin PS, Absoud M, Modat M, Duncan PEL. Post-vaccination infection rates and modification of COVID-19 symptoms in vaccinated UK school-aged children and adolescents: A prospective longitudinal cohort study. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 2022, 19, 100429.
- Molteni E, Sudre CH, Canas LDS, Bhopal SS, Hughes RC, Chen L, Deng J, Murray B, Kerfoot E, Antonelli M, Graham M, Klaser K, May A, Hu C, Pujol JC, Wolf J, Hammers A, Spector TD, Ourselin S, Modat M, Steves CJ, Absoud M, Duncan EL. Illness Characteristics of COVID-19 in Children Infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant. Children 2022, 9(5), 652.
- Hughes RC, Kitsao-Wekulo P, Muendo R, Bhopal SS, Kimani-Murage E, Hill Z, Kirkwood BR. Who actually cares for children in slums? Why we need to think, and do, more about paid childcare in urbanizing sub-Saharan Africa. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2021, 376(1827), 20200430.
- Bhopal SS, Olabi B, Bhopal R. Vaccines for COVID-19: learning from ten phase II trials to inform clinical and public health vaccination programmes. Public Health 2021, 193, 57-60.
- Bhavnani S, Mukherjee D, Bhopal S, Sharma KK, Dasgupta J, Divan G, Soremekun S, Roy R, Kirkwood B, Patel V. The association of a novel digital tool for assessment of early childhood cognitive development, ‘DEvelopmental assessment on an E-Platform (DEEP)’, with growth in rural India: A proof of concept study. EClinicalMedicine 2021, 37, 100964.
- Hughes RC, Bhopal SS, Tomlinson M. Making pre-school children wear masks is bad public health. Public Health in Practice 2021, 2, 100197.
- Molteni E, Sudre CH, Canas LS, Bhopal SS, Hughes RC, Antonelli M, Murray B, Klaser K, Kerfoot E, Chen L, Deng J, Hu C, Selvachandran S, Reed K, Pujol JC, Hammers A, Spector TD, Ourselin S, Steves CJ, Modat M, Absound M, Duncan EL. Illness duration and symptom profile in symptomatic UK school-aged children tested for SARS-CoV-2. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health 2021, 5(10), 708-718.
- Bhopal S, Halpin H, Gerein N. Emergency Obstetric Referral in Rural Sierra Leone: What Can Motorbike Ambulances Contribute? A Mixed-Methods Study. Maternal and Child Health Journal 2013, 17(6), 1038-1043.
- Bhopal S, Mann K, Pearce M. Rates of childhood cancer in females remain lower than expected in developing countries. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2011, 65(s1), A325.
- Theodoratou E, Zhang JSF, Kolcic I, Davis AM, Bhopal S, Nair H, Chan KY, Liu L, Johnson H, Rudan I, Campbell H. Estimating Pneumonia Deaths of Post-Neonatal Children in Countries of Low or No Death Certification in 2008. PLoS One 2011, 6(9), e25095.
- Theodoratou E, Johnson S, Jhass A, Madhi SA, Clark A, Boschi-Pinto C, Bhopal S, Rudan I, Campbell H. The effect of Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on childhood pneumonia incidence, severe morbidity and mortality. International Journal of Epidemiology 2010, 39(s1), i172-i185.
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Letters
- Ladhani SN, Guy R, Bhopal SS, Brown CS, Lamagni T, Sharp A. Paediatric group A streptococcal disease in England from October to December, 2022. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health 2023, 7(2), e2-e4.
- Fernandes M, Blackett K, Crespo-Llado MM, Lau C, Stevens AJ, Richards A, Bhopal SS, Devakumar D, Brotherton H, Nielsen M. The global state of early child development: from epidemiology to interventions. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2022, 107(5), 516-517.
- Molteni E, Bhopal SS, Hughes RC, Absoud M, Duncan EL. Long COVID in children – Authors' reply. The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health 2022, 6(1), e3-e3.
- Bhopal SS, Bagaria J, Olabi B, Bhopal R. Children and young people remain at low risk of COVID-19 mortality. The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health 2021, 5(5), e12-e13.
- Bhopal SS, Bhopal R. Sex differential in COVID-19 mortality varies markedly by age. The Lancet 2020, 396(10250), 532-533.
- Bhopal SS, Bagaria J, Bhopal R. Risks to children during the covid-19 pandemic: Some essential epidemiology. The BMJ 2020, 369.
- Devakumar D, Shannon G, Bhopal SS, Abubakar I. Racism and discrimination in COVID-19 responses. The Lancet 2020, 395(10231), 1194-1194.
- Bhopal SS, Cannon E. Education disruption in response to a positive covid-19 PCR test must be proportionate and consistent. BMJ 2020, 371, m3803.
- Bhopal SS, Bagaria J, Olabi B, Bhopal R. COVID-19 deaths in children: comparison with all- and other causes and trends in incidence of mortality. Public Health 2020, 188, 32-34.
- Bhopal S, Bagaria J, Bhopal R. Children's mortality from COVID-19 compared with all-deaths and other relevant causes of death: epidemiological information for decision-making by parents, teachers, clinicians and policymakers. Public Health 2020, 185, 19-20.
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Notes
- Bhopal S, Nielsen M. Vaccine hesitancy in low- And middle-income countries: Potential implications for the COVID-19 response. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2021, 106(2), 113-114.
- Bogiatzopoulou A, Mayberry H, Hawcutt DB, Whittaker E, Munro A, Roland D, Simba J, Gale C, Felsenstein S, Abrams E, Jones CB, Lewins I, Rodriguez-Martinez CE, Fernandes RM, Stilwell PA, Swann O, Bhopal S, Sinha I, Harwood R. Erratum to “COVID-19 in children: what did we learn from the first waveˮ [Paediatr Child Health 30 (2020) 438–443/1496] (Paediatrics and Child Health (2020) 30(12) (438–443), (S1751722220301591), (10.1016/j.paed.2020.09.005)). Paediatrics and Child Health 2021, 31(3), 128-128.
- Devakumar D, Bhopal SS, Shannon G. COVID-19: the great unequaliser. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2020, 113(6), 234-235.
- Abrams EM, McGill G, Bhopal SS, Sinha I, Fernandes RM. COVID-19, asthma, and return to school. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 2020, 8(9), 847-849.
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Review
- Bogiatzopoulou A, Mayberry H, Hawcutt DB, Whittaker E, Munro A, Roland D, Simba J, Gale C, Felsenstein S, Abrams E, Jones CB, Lewins I, Rodriguez-Martinez CR, Fernandes RM, Stilwell PA, Swann O, Bhopal S, Sinha I, Harwood R. COVID-19 in children: what did we learn from the first wave?. Paediatrics and Child Health 2020, 30(12), 438-443.