Cambridge
0845 196 2461
jennifer.lim@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

Qualifications

• 1998 Ph.D., School of Geography, University of Manchester, UK. (Thesis: Household decision making, land use and land degradation, poverty and health: shifting cultivation in a tropical mountainous environment in Sabah, Malaysia)
• 1992 MA. (Econ) in Development Administration and Management, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK. (Dissertation: An evaluation of the industrialization process in Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan and Korea - a comparison study using the Robert Wade's Newly Industrialized Countries framework)
• 1989 Bachelor of Public Administration (Hon.), Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia. (Thesis: The administration of government-owned elderly care homes in Sabah: a case study of the Pritchard Valley home for elderly people)
• 2003 Health Economics module on decision-making and preferences (Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics), Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, UK
• 2002 Systematic Review and critical analysis module, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, UK (Project: The clinical effectiveness of angioplasty compared to open-heart surgery for acute cardiovascular diseases).
• 2000 Postgraduate certificate in teaching and learning in higher education, University of Leeds, UK

Memberships

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health
• Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine

Committees

• Expert member, NRES West Midlands Solihull Research Ethics Committee, National Health Ethics Service, HTA, UK

Courses

• BSc Public Health
• MSc Public Health

Outline of career

Dr. Jennifer Lim is a health behavioural scientist. She was previously a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Leeds, UK, where she has been working for over 13 years. She has led and collaborated in many projects on health policy, evidence-based medicine, public health, health inequalities, and global health. Her research covers primary and secondary care in the UK, as well as public health at the international level.

As a research methodologist, Dr. Lim has expertise in qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research approaches, as well as considerable experience in research synthesis.

Dr. Lim set up and leads the first Psychosocial Cancer Research Network between UK, Southeast Asia and Middle East (UK-SEA-ME network) to facilitate global health research on breast cancer in the Asia Pacific region. In this Network, her research aims to examine the burden of cancer due to delayed and late presentation, diagnosis and treatment in UK, Malaysia, Singapore and the UAE. Within the network, she also conducts knowledge transfer activities aims to build capacity on research methodologies and improve the evidence base in the subject area.

Dr. Lim holds several Adjunct Professorial positions internationally. These are at the McGill University (Canada), University of Malaya (Malaysia) and the University of United Arab Emirates (UAE). Within the UK, She frequently carries out review of research grant applications for the National Institute of Healthcare Research Service Delivery Organisation; the Medical Research Council; the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Clinical Evaluation and Trials Programme; and the National Research Ethics Service (NRES).

Research Interests

Dr. Lim's current research is on

• The development of better understanding of attitudes, decision making and behaviour; family history of cancer: the public health value of family history and individuals' responses to knowledge of having a family history of disease. This research aims to enable behavioural change through the development and piloting of interventions, acceptable and appropriate to local context.
• Health improvement and quality of care and services (healthcare management) in multicultural societies: attitudes, perceptions and experiences, organisational response to provide quality, efficient and equitable health care and services; and
• public health intervention to improve breast cancer screening.

Selected Publications

Selected articles (2008 - present)

Dahlui M, Gan D, Taib N, Kaur R, Lim JNW (2013) Breast Screening and Health Issues among Rural Females in sub-urban Malaysia: How Much do They Know and Practice? Preventive Medicine www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743512006275

Saxena N, Hartman M,Bhoo-Pathy N, JNW Lim, TC Aw, NA Taib, Yip CH, Verkooijen HM. (2012) Breast cancer in South East Asia: Comparison of presentation and outcome between a middle income and a high income country, World Journal of Surgery DOI 10.1007/s00268-012-1746-2, published 28th August 2012

Lim JNW, Hewison J. (2012) Do people really know what makes a family history of cancer? Health Expectations DOI 10: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2012.00808.x, published online 13thAugust 2012,

Lim JNW (2011) The UK-SEA-ME Psychosocial-Cultural Cancer Research Network: Setting the stage for applied qualitative research on cancer health behaviour in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, Asia Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 12(6)

Lim JNW (2011) Empirical comparisons of patient delay and help seeking models for breast cancer: fitness of models for use and generalization, Asia Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 12(6)

Alhurishi S, Lim JNW, Potrata B, West R. (2011) Evidence of late presentation in the Middle East: a systematic review. Asia Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 12(6)

Karbani G, Lim JNW, Hewison J, Lansdown M, Horgan K, Chu CE. (2011) Culture, attitude and knowledge about breast cancer and preventive measures: a qualitative study of South Asian breast cancer patients in the UK, Asia Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 12(6)

Lim JNW, Hewison J, Chu CE, Al Habsi H (2011) Factors influencing consultation to discuss family history of cancer by asymptomatic patients in primary care, Journal of Community Genetics, 2(1): 19-26, DOI. 10.1007/s12687-011-0034-4

Lim JNW, Edlin R.(2009) Preferences of older patients and choice of treatment location in the UK: a binary choice experiment. Health Policy; 91(3):252-7

Al-Habsi H, Lim JNW, Chu CE, Hewison J.(2008) Factors influencing the referrals in primary care of asymptomatic patients with a family history of cancer. Genetics in Medicine.10(10):752-57 www.nature.com/gim/journal/v10/n10/abs/gim2008115a.html