Purva Abhyankar

Research Fellow (PURE)

Biography

Background

Purva is a health psychologist by training and has many years of research experience in applied health and health services research. Her work spans across three main areas:

  • Health Promotion & Behaviour Change
  • Health-Related Decision Making
  • Implementation Science

Purva is an inter-disciplinary and mixed methods researcher and joined the University of Edinburgh in January 2025, having previously worked at the University of Stirling in Research and Teaching roles for a number of years. At Usher Institute, Purva is working on global health projects for improving respiratory health.  

Qualifications

  • MA Psychology
  • MSc Health Psychology
  • PhD Health Psychology

Responsibilities & affiliations

Purva is currently working on two projects:

  1. FreshAirforLife – an implementation science research project funded by Horizon Europe aimed at developing context-specific interventions to reduce tobacco and air pollution exposure in five selected countries across the world. Purva is leading work package 3 of the project which involves the selection and adaptation of intervention packages and development of implementation strategies.
  2. PuRe – a 3-arm randomised controlled implementation trial of pulmonary rehabilitation delivered in low resource settings in South and South-east Asia for people with chronic respiratory disease. Purva is leading the process evaluation of the trial across the four trial centres.
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