Marta Santillo

Dr Marta Santillo is a Researcher within the Mental Health Research Group. She works on a NHIR Team Science project on delivering a scoping review on measurement of Quality of Life for patients with Multiple Long Term Conditions. She is also part of the Science Together Programme, supervising the research delivery of a mental health training for first responders to mental health crisis in the police. 

Marta is a departmental Wellbeing Champion, Mental Health First Aider and active member of the Green Impact team. She loves bringing her love for Nature and Wellbeing together as part of the Serene Green Wellbeing series which promotes re-connecting with nature for our own wellbeing. As part of the Serene Green series Marta organised yoga classes, wellbeing walks, poetry reading, storytelling and more!

Marta joined the department in 2019 and worked as Qualitative Research Fellow within the Infectious Diseases Research Group. Marta worked on the planning and development and evaluation of an intervention to introduce the FeNO test in primary care routine asthma reviews, as part of the DEFINE trial (Determining the effectiveness of an online FeNO-guided asthma management intervention in primary care). Marta was also involved in the development and evaluation of an health intervention on penicillin allergy testing, as part of the ALABAMA (Allergy Antibiotics And Microbial Resistance) project. She also worked on the TOUS research study as part of the social prescribing research group, looking at how to tailor cultural offers for older adults from the global majority.

Marta is interested in PBA for intervention development, qualitative methods, social prescribing, mental health. 

Between 2016 and 2018 Marta worked as Research Fellow within the Centre of Applications of Health Psychology, University of Southampton, and was involved in the development of an online health intervention on antibiotic reduction, as part of the ARK (Antibiotic Review Kit) project. 

In 2015, Marta completed a PhD in Health and Social Psychology, at the School of Psychology, University of Leeds. Her research focused on the effects of the quality of intergroup contact between doctors and nurses on professional communication and attitudes. During her PhD Marta also worked as Research Fellow as part of the Quality and Safety Research Team at the Bradford Institute for Health Research. She was involved in the development and delivery of Behaviour Change Interventions on Patient Safety for health care professionals.