2017 Joint winner of the BMA Foundation for Medical Research TP Gunton award for research in public health relating to cancer

2009 - Recognition of achievement by the Medical Advisory Committee of the Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus, for the 40 year complete follow up of the Cambridge cohort of open spina bifida.

2006 and 2007 - Top 10 per cent of British Medical Journal Reviewers.

2003 - BUPA Foundation Epidemiology Award second prize for Hunt GM, Oakeshott P. Outcome in people with open spina bifida at age 35: community based prospective cohort study. BMJ 2003;326:1365-6

2002 - Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Research Paper of the Year: Cappuccio FP, Oakeshott P, Strazzullo P, Kerry SM. Application of Framingham coronary heart disease risk estimates to ethnic minorities in United Kingdom and implications for primary prevention of heart disease in general practice: cross sectional population based study. BMJ 2002;325: 1271-4

Selected recent publications

Razai MS, Mansour R, Goldsmith L, Freeman S, Mason-Apps C, Ravindran K, Kooner P, Berendes S, Morris J, Majeed A, Ussher M, Hargreaves S, Oakeshott P. Interventions to increase vaccination against COVID-19, influenza and pertussis during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Travel Med. 2023 Nov 2:taad138. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taad138. 

Razai MS, Trinder B, Perry A, Cauldwell M, Reid F, Oakeshott P. Encouraging brisk walking with the free Active10 app in postnatal women who had a hypertensive pregnancy: "Just Walk It" feasibility study. PLoS One. 2023 Feb 21;18(2):e0282066. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282066. 

Kerry-Barnard, S., Zhou, L., Phillips, L., Furegato, M., Witney, A. A., Sadiq, S. T., & Oakeshott, P. (2022). Vaginal microbiota in ethnically diverse young women who did or did not develop pelvic inflammatory disease: community-based prospective study.. Sex Transm Infect. doi:10.1136/sextrans-2021-055260

Kerry-Barnard, S., Beddows, S., Reid, F., Beckley-Hoelscher, N., Soldan, K., Panwar, K., . . . Oakeshott, P. (2021). Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and oropharyngeal HPV in ethnically diverse, sexually active adolescents: community-based cross-sectional study.. Sex Transm Infect, 97(6), 458-460. doi:10.1136/sextrans-2020-054428

Bartholomew, R., Kerry-Barnard, S., Beckley-Hoelscher, N., Phillips, R., Reid, F., Fleming, C., . . . Oakeshott, P. (2021). Alcohol use, cigarette smoking, vaping and number of sexual partners: A cross-sectional study of sexually active, ethnically diverse, inner city adolescents.. Health Expect, 24(3), 1009-1014. doi:10.1111/hex.13248

Aghaizu, A., Reid, F., Kerry, S., Hay, P. E., Mallinson, H., Jensen, J. S., . . . Oakeshott, P. (2014). Frequency and risk factors for incident and redetected Chlamydia trachomatis infection in sexually active, young, multi-ethnic women: a community based cohort study.. Sex Transm Infect, 90(7), 524-528. doi:10.1136/sextrans-2014-051607

Hay, P. E., Kerry, S. R., Normansell, R., Horner, P. J., Reid, F., Kerry, S. M., . . . Oakeshott, P. (2016). Which sexually active young female students are most at risk of pelvic inflammatory disease? A prospective study.. Sex Transm Infect, 92(1), 63-66. doi:10.1136/sextrans-2015-052063

Reid, F., Oakeshott, P., Kerry, S. R., Hay, P. E., & Jensen, J. S. (2017). Chlamydia related bacteria (Chlamydiales) in early pregnancy: community-based cohort study.. Clin Microbiol Infect, 23(2), 119.e9-119.e14. doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2016.10.011

Oakeshott, P., Kerry-Barnard, S., Fleming, C., Phillips, R., Drennan, V. M., Adams, E. J., . . . Reid, F. (2019). 'Test n Treat' (TnT): a cluster randomized feasibility trial of on-site rapid Chlamydia trachomatis tests and treatment in ethnically diverse, sexually active teenagers attending technical colleges.. Clin Microbiol Infect, 25(7), 865-871. doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2018.10.019

Oakeshott, P., Poulton, A., Hunt, G. M., & Reid, F. (2019). Walking and living independently with spina bifida: a 50-year prospective cohort study.. Dev Med Child Neurol, 61(10), 1202-1207. doi:10.1111/dmcn.14168

Estcourt, C. S., Gibbs, J., Sutcliffe, L. J., Gkatzidou, V., Tickle, L., Hone, K., . . . Sonnenberg, P. (2017). The eSexual Health Clinic system for management, prevention, and control of sexually transmitted infections: exploratory studies in people testing for Chlamydia trachomatis.. Lancet Public Health, 2(4), e182-e190. doi:10.1016/S2468-2667(17)30034-8

Recent grants as chief investigator

2022

NIHR RfPB funded "LISA" trial: Lactoferrin InStead of Antibiotics for women with bacterial vaginosis or thrush: feasibility study

2016
NIHR RfPB funded “Test n Treat”: a cluster randomised feasibility trial of rapid chlamydia/gonorrhoea tests and same day on-site treatment in further education colleges. £243,000

2013-2015
Medical Research Council: A proof of principle study: Screening for chlamydia related bacteria to prevent miscarriage.

Recent grants as co-investigator

2011-2016
UKCRG Consortium Grant (ST Sadiq, P Butcher, G Griffin, P Oakeshott et al) Translating advances in diagnostic and communication technologies to reduce the burden of STIs.

2014-2018
NIHR St George's and King's Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) 

I am involved in teaching and supervising undergraduate medical students, Academic FY2s and Academic Clinical Fellows. I also lecture on the BSc in Primary Care and assist with examining.

Publications with students and academic FY2s and ACFs include:

Banks, J., Mistry, P., Wyper, D., Weyman, F., & Oakeshott, P. (2021). Medical School Training Can Improve Patient Care.. J Prim Care Community Health, 12, 21501327211052192. doi:10.1177/21501327211052192

Ali, S., Ashraf, U., Shah, F., Ali, O., Hayes, K., & Oakeshott, P. (2019). Re: Lactobacilli containing vaginal probiotics to cure or prevent bacterial or fungal vaginal dysbiosis: a systematic review and recommendations for future trial designs.. BJOG. doi:10.1111/1471-0528.15961

Al-Bedaery, R., & Oakeshott, P. (2019). Re: Evaluation of a simple risk score to predict preterm pre-eclampsia using maternal characteristics: a prospective cohort study. BJOG, 126(11), 1403. doi:10.1111/1471-0528.15877

Poulton, A., Yap, R. T. J., Sandhu, J. S., Ng, S. G. Y., Fernando, M. B., & Oakeshott, P. (2019). Involving medical students in a community-based project on ADHD: a novel  learning experience.. Future Healthc J, 6(2), 146-147. doi:10.7861/futurehosp.6-2-146a

Carruthers, E., & Oakeshott, P. (2019). Refugee and asylum seeker usage of primary care: medical student survey at two inner-city general practices.. Educ Prim Care, 30(4), 248-250. doi:10.1080/14739879.2019.1613676.

This won the Julian Tudor-Hart prize.

Tucker, K. L., Bowen, L., Crawford, C., Mallon, P., Hinton, L., Lee, M. -M., . . . McManus, R. J. (2019). Corrigendum to "The feasibility and acceptability of self-testing for proteinuria during pregnancy: A mixed methods approach" [Pregn. Hypertens. 12 (2018) 161-168].. Pregnancy Hypertens, 16, 31. doi:10.1016/j.preghy.2019.02.005

Boyd, H., & Oakeshott, P. (2019). The complexities of mental health in a Young Offender Institution: reflections from a medical student project.. Educ Prim Care, 30(3), 178-179. doi:10.1080/14739879.2019.1586453

Lall, K., & Oakeshott, P. (2019). Educating primary care patients with and without
hypertension about lifestyle changes: a medical student audit at an inner-city practice..Educ Prim Care, 30(2), 124-125. doi:10.1080/14739879.2018.1563505

Alam, F., Chaudry-Daley, Z., Green, A., Oakeshott, P., Kerry-Barnard, S., & Fleming, C. (2018). Characteristics of those followed up/not followed up at three colleges participating in the NIHR-funded 'Test and Treat' feasibility trial of rapid chlamydia tests. In BJOG Vol. 125 (pp. 15). Retrieved from
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