Aaron Poppleton

Biography

Dr Aaron Poppleton is a General Practitioner and Wellcome Trust PhD student in Primary Care within the Institute of Global Health at Keele University. He is also an honorary clinical research fellow at the University of Manchester.

Aaron studied Medicine with European Studies (University of Manchester, 2011; MBChB) with an intercalated degree in Pharmacology and Physiology (BSc (Hons)). He achieved the Goethe Institute language qualification (C1 German), undertaking clinical placements in the UK, Germany and Hungary. After graduation, Aaron worked as a research active clinical doctor within the University Hospital of Saarland, Germany (Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes).

Aaron undertook an Academic Clinical Fellowship during his general practice specialist training, including a Master’s degree in Clinical Research (University of Central Lancashire, 2018; MSc; Distinction). His Master’s thesis comprised a qualitative exploration of the management of depression after stroke within general practice. Aaron subsequently completed an NIHR funded In Practice Fellowship at the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research, University of Manchester. During this time he developed a community member and stakeholder engagement strategy within the UK Central and Eastern European (UK-CEE) community, including founding the UK-CEE Health Forum.

Aaron has a keen interest in primary care mental health, particularly within global health, cross-cultural and marginalised community contexts. He has a postgraduate diploma in Global Health with Non-Communicable Disease (University of Edinburgh, 2015) and a Masters in Global Public Health (University of Manchester, 2021; MPH; Distinction). He is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners Junior Doctors International Committee, UK Christian Medical Fellowship Global Committee, and is chairing the Scientific Committee of the Vasco da Gama (WONCA) Forum in Edinburgh, 2022.

He has undertaken primary care clinical placements, medication education projects, and academic collaborations within Central and Eastern Europe, including Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Ukraine.

Research and scholarship

Aaron is undertaking a Wellcome Trust Funded Primary Care Doctoral Fellowship to culturally adapt primary care mental healthcare for the UK resident Central and Eastern European community [CLARENCE] (commenced 2020). CLARENCE will include in-depth qualitative interviews with community members and primary care staff to explore their perceptions and experiences of health and healthcare within the UK. Outcomes from CLARENCE will be used to support development of a behavioural model of health service utilisation, informing development of practice guidelines and resources.

More information on CLARENCE can be found on the Institute for Global Health's website.