Emily Bebbington

Dr Emily Bebbington is a Speciality Registrar in Public Health at Public Health Wales, and a Clinical Lecturer at Bangor University. She holds a Welsh Clinical Academic Track (WCAT) Fellowship. Dr Bebbington’s career began in emergency medicine before transitioning into public health. She holds a PhD from Bangor University (2024) for her research on strengthening international surveillance data on burn injury intent. Dr Bebbington undertook much of her PhD research as part of the South Asia Self-Harm Initiative (SASHI), in which she led the burn injuries workstream. In addition to her PhD, she has qualifications in clinical sciences, medical education, and emergency medicine, bringing a wealth of clinical and academic expertise to her work.

Dr Bebbington’s recent research has made significant contributions to the understanding of burn injury surveillance. Her research has provided strong evidence for the need for a common data element for burn injury intent; the use of process mapping to understand and reduce selection bias in registry data; and the importance of exploratory quantitative analyses for identifying potentially misclassified injuries. Her work is internationally collaborative, contributing to burn research alongside teams from across the globe. She is interested in all aspects of registry research, and is leading on work to understand the feasibility of implementing a self-harm register in North Wales.

Appointments

Speciality Registrar, Public Health Wales

Clinical Lecturer, Bangor University

Welsh Clinical Academic Track Fellow, Health Education and Improvement Wales

Previously

2020 – 2023 Out of programme research (OOPR) to complete PhD

2019 – 2023 Emergency Medicine Speciality Trainee, HEIW (WCAT Fellow)

2017 – 2019 Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine, Ysbyty Gwynedd

2016 – 2017 MSc Clinical Sciences, University of Leicester

2014 – 2016 Acute Care Common Stem trainee, St George’s Hospital, London

2012 – 2014 Academic Foundation Programme, Trent Deanery

2009 – 2012 BMBCh Medical Sciences, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford

2008 – 2009 Year out from medical school to compete in WWA Wake Park World Championships. World Champion Professional Ladies Cable Rail Wakeboarding

2005 – 2008 BA Medical Sciences, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

Grants Awarded

ABCDE-MDS study. International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) Institutional Support Grant. 2024. £10k.  The ABCDE-MDS study will bring together world experts in burn injuries to participate in Delphi study to develop an international minimum data set for burn injuries. This could be implemented at a local, regional, or national level to facilitate benchmarking and multi-centre collaboration, as well as moving towards FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) for burns data internationally.

SaVER project. Development of a self-harm registry for North Wales. Bangor University Innovation and Impact Award. 2024. £35k, with Rob Poole, Anne Krayer, Catherine Robinson.  The aim of the SaVER project is to understand the utility of existing systems in Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) that collect data about self-harm and other forms of violence, and how these might be improved to implement a self-harm and violence registry.

Publications

Bebbington E, Kakola M, Majgi SM, Krishna M, Poole R, Robinson C. Exploring misclassification of injury intent: A burn register study. Burns. 2024 Sep; DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2024.05.010

Gus E, Attwells S, Bebbington E, Singer Y. Burn registries: From observation to intervention. Journal of Burn Care & Research. 2024 Sep; DOI: 10.1093/jbcr/irae125

Bebbington E, Miles J, Young A, van Baar ME, Bernal N, Brekke RL, et al. Exploring the similarities and differences of burn registers globally: Results from a data dictionary comparison study. Burns. 2024 May; DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2024.01.004

Bebbington E, Kakola M, Nagaraj S, Guruswamy S, McPhillips R, Majgi SM, et al. Development of an electronic burns register: Digitisation of routinely collected hospital data for global burns surveillance. Burns. 2024 Mar; DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2023.08.007

Noorullah A, Pirani S, Bebbington E, Khan M. Suicide and self-harm by burns in Pakistan: A scoping review protocol. BMJ Open. 2024 Mar; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-080815

Bebbington E, Ramesh P, McPhillips R, Bibi F, Khan M, Kakola M, et al. Terminology and methods used to differentiate injury intent of hospital burn patients in South Asia: Results from a systematic scoping review. Burns. 2024 Mar; DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2023.10.008

Bebbington E, Ramesh P, Kakola M, McPhillips R, Bibi F, Hanif A, et al. Terminology and methods used to differentiate injury intent of hospital burn patients in South Asia: A systematic scoping review protocol. Systematic Reviews. 2023 Aug; DOI: 10.1186/s13643-023-02317-y

Bebbington E, Miles J, Peck M, Singer Y, Dunn K, Young A. Exploring the similarities and differences of variables collected by burn registers globally: Protocol for a data dictionary review study. BMJ Open. 2023 Feb; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066512

Bebbington E, Poole R, Kumar SP, Krayer A, Krishna M, Taylor P, et al. Establishing self-harm registers: The role of process mapping to improve quality of surveillance data globally. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb; DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20032647

Bebbington E, Lawson J, Nafees S, Robinson C, Poole R. Evaluation of a framework for safe and appropriate prescribing of psychoactive medications in a UK prison. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. 2021 Apr; DOI: 10.1002/cbm.2187

Azam S, Jones T, Wood S, Bebbington E, Woodfine L, Bellis MA. Improving winter health and well-being and reducing winter pressures. A preventative approach. Public Health Wales, Cardiff. 2019.

Bebbington E, Peck J. Linear regression analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics predicts a large increase in demand for elective hand surgery in England. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2015 Feb; DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2014.10.011