Professor Chris Bonell

LSHTM Professor of Public Health & Sociology

Chris has expertise in evaluation methods, adolescent health and sexual health. He has developed realist trials as a means to rigorously examine how and for whom interventions work, and dark logic models as a means to hypothesise the potential harms arising from interventions. He conducts quantitative and qualitative research on adolescent and sexual health, focusing in particular on the social determinants of health and how these might be addressed by interventions.

Chris is particularly interested in how the school environment shapes health and how this might be modified by interventions. He is also interested in the intersection of different aspects of health, such as the effects of violence on mental health and the effects of substance use on sexual behaviour and health.

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