Sarah Akhtar Baz

ORCID: 0000-0001-9393-8003
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Research Areas
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Labor Movements and Unions
  • COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Neutropenia and Cancer Infections
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Fungal Infections and Studies
  • Diabetes and associated disorders
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

University of York
2022-2024

University College London
2023

University of Liverpool
2023

In October 2022, it was estimated 2.3 million people in the United Kingdom have self-reported Long Covid (LC). Many reported not receiving adequate healthcare support. There is a lack of research which provides an in-depth exploration barriers faced by with LC accessing It important to understand these provide better support, care and advice for those experiencing LC.To primary, secondary specialist support LC.40 interviews were conducted living Bradford alongside 12 professionals (HCPs)...

10.1111/hex.13687 article EN cc-by Health Expectations 2022-12-13

Abstract Identity loss and (re)construction forms a central debate in sociology of chronic illness. Living with chronic/persistent health conditions may raise questions about how disruptions can touch upon further threaten the very roots existence, by which people reflexively perceive coherent stable sense ‘being‐in‐the‐world’. Whilst medical sociologists have shown interest ‘existential loss’ illness, this question remains largely underexplored. Adopting qualitative study on Long COVID (LC)...

10.1111/1467-9566.13690 article EN cc-by Sociology of Health & Illness 2023-06-30
Kurt Taylor Sophie V. Eastwood Venexia Walker Geneviève Cézard Rosemary Knight and 95 more Marwa Al Arab Yinghui Wei Elsie Horne Lucy Teece Harriet Forbes Alex J Walker Louis Fisher Jon Massey Lisa Hopcroft Tom Palmer Jose Cuitun Coronado Samantha Ip Simon Davy Iain Dillingham Caroline E Morton Felix Greaves John Macleod Ben Goldacre Angela Wood Nish Chaturvedi Jonathan A C Sterne Rachel Denholm Marwa Al Arab Fatima Almaghrabi Colm Andrews Ellena Badrick Sarah Akhtar Baz Chelsea Beckford Samantha Berman Tom Bolton Charlotte Booth Ruth C. E. Bowyer Andy Boyd Charis Bridger-Staatz Sinèad Brophy Archie Campbell Kirsteen C Campbell Alisia Carnemolla JD Carpentieri Geneviève Cézard Nish Chaturvedi Nathan J. Cheetham Ruth Costello Thomas E. Cowling Matthew A. Crane Jose Ignacio Cuitun Coronado Helen J Curtis Spiros Denaxas Rachel Denholm Giorgio Di Gessa Richard Dobson Ian Douglas Katharine Evans Chao Fang Vanessa M. Ferreira Lucy Finnigan Louis Fisher Robin Flaig Amos Folarin Harriet Forbes Diane Foster María Laura Fox Maxim Freydin María Paz García Andy Gibson Fiona Glen Ben Goldacre Ana Luiza G. Soares Felix Greaves Amelia Green Mark Green Michael J. Green Gareth J Griffith Lee Hamill Howes Olivia KL Hamilton Annie Herbet Emily Herrett Lisa Hopcroft Elsie Horne Bo Hou Alun D. Hughes William Hulme Lizzie Huntley Samantha Ip Jacques Wels Peter Jezzard Louise Jones Arun Kanagaratnam Arun S Karthikeyan Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi John Kellas Jonathan Kennedy Milla Kibble Rosemary Knight Anika Knueppel

Some studies have shown that the incidence of type 2 diabetes increases after a diagnosis COVID-19, although evidence is not conclusive. However, effects COVID-19 vaccine on this association, or effect other subtypes, are clear. We aimed to investigate association between and 2, 1, gestational non-specific diabetes, COVID- 19 vaccination, up 52 weeks diagnosis.

10.1016/s2213-8587(24)00159-1 article EN cc-by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 2024-07-23

Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic has presented significant challenges to the already over-stretched healthcare system in United Kingdom (UK). These are particularly pronounced for people living with novel condition of Long COVID (LC) as they often face persistent and fluctuating symptoms, encountering prolonged uncertainty when seeking medical support. Despite a growing understanding associated LC, existing qualitative studies have predominantly focused on individual experiences...

10.1186/s12913-024-10891-7 article EN cc-by BMC Health Services Research 2024-04-01

Abstract Background Acute leukaemias (AL) are life-threatening blood cancers that can be potentially cured with treatment involving myelosuppressive, multiagent, intensive chemotherapy (IC). However, such is associated a risk of serious infection, in particular invasive fungal infection (IFI) prolonged neutropenia. Current practice guidelines recommend primary antifungal (AF) prophylaxis to administered high-risk patients reduce IFI incidence. AFs also used empirically manage neutropenic...

10.1186/s13063-024-08272-w article EN cc-by Trials 2024-06-28

Engaging in ‘reflexive practice’ throughout the research process (Benson and O’Reilly, 2022) a ‘reflexivity of discomfort’ (Hamdan, 2009) through an intersectional lens, this article presents reflective account accessing conducting observations interviews at South Asian women’s organisation, North England, to explore Pakistani Bangladeshi Muslim (PBM) lone motherhood. It critically explores how researchers’ own subjectivities intersecting identities – case, my positionalities as young...

10.1177/14687941231165893 article EN cc-by Qualitative Research 2023-06-01

Organised by the 'Qualitative Long Covid Network', a workshop for qualitative COVID (LC) researchers, LC charity representatives and people with took place in June 2023, where research on intersectional inequalities affecting prevalence, recognition care was shared discussed.

10.1111/hex.70047 article EN cc-by Health Expectations 2024-10-01

Single motherhood has been a contentious subject in Britain. Yet there remains lack of research which focuses on the complex experiences global majority single mothers based England. Drawing interview data from two studies, this article addresses gap analysing three often stigmatised and misunderstood groups – African Caribbean, Bangladeshi Pakistani women experiencing motherhood. In paper, we examine how their lived realities are varyingly shaped by gender, class, ethnicity, religion...

10.1080/01419870.2024.2402883 article EN cc-by Ethnic and Racial Studies 2024-10-08

Abstract Background: In July 2022 it was estimated 2 million people in the UK have self-reported Long Covid (LC).1 Many reported not receiving adequate healthcare support. There is a lack of research which provides an in-depth exploration barriers faced by with LC accessing It important to understand these provide better support, care and advice for those experiencing LC. Objective: To primary, secondary specialist support Design participation: 40 interviews were conducted alongside 12...

10.1101/2022.08.04.22278204 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2022-08-04

Abstract Background Long COVID (LC) has presented significant challenges to healthcare, as people with persistent and fluctuating symptoms often face prolonged uncertainty when seeking medical support. Negative experiences healthcare systems trauma from previous health conditions may further compound this uncertainty. Despite an increasingly rich picture of LC being captured, qualitative studies on so far have primarily focused individual rather than examining the structural aspects Methods...

10.21203/rs.3.rs-3627288/v1 preprint EN cc-by Research Square (Research Square) 2023-11-25
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