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Social Sciences and Humanities
UK
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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76
Citations
34947
World Ranking
487
National Ranking
81

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  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Chris Bonell is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. The research conducted spans multiple fields primarily within health and social sciences, focusing extensively on health professions, social sciences, and medicine.

Their research subfields cover:

  • General Health Professions
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Health
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Modeling and Simulation

The main topics of their work include:

  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Community Health and Development
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health Policy Implementation Science

Frequent co-authors associated with Bonell's work are:

  • G. J. Meléndez-Torres (55 publications)
  • Russell Viner (41 publications)
  • Catherine H Mercer (39 publications)
  • Kirstin Mitchell (34 publications)
  • Raquel Bosó Pérez (33 publications)

The scientist's publication record includes contributions to a variety of journals and platforms. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 12 publications
  • BMJ Open - 10 publications
  • Public Health Research - 10 publications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal - 8 publications
  • Trials - 6 publications

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Chris Bonell include:

  • School closure and management practices during coronavirus outbreaks including COVID-19: a rapid systematic review, 2020, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • Susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Children and Adolescents Compared With Adults, 2020, JAMA Pediatrics
  • School Closures During Social Lockdown and Mental Health, Health Behaviors, and Well-being Among Children and Adolescents During the First COVID-19 Wave, 2022, JAMA Pediatrics
  • Determining the optimal strategy for reopening schools, the impact of test and trace interventions, and the risk of occurrence of a second COVID-19 epidemic wave in the UK: a modelling study, 2020, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • The sustainability of public health interventions in schools: a systematic review, 2020, Implementation Science

Their scholarly contributions also include book publications such as Realist Trials and Systematic Reviews, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Process evaluation of complex interventions: Medical Research Council guidance

    Graham Moore;Suzanne Audrey;Mary Barker;Lyndal Bond

  • Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing

    George C Patton;George C Patton;Susan M Sawyer;Susan M Sawyer;Susan M Sawyer;John S Santelli;David A Ross;David A Ross

  • School closure and management practices during coronavirus outbreaks including COVID-19: a rapid systematic review.

    Russell M Viner;Simon J Russell;Helen Croker;Jessica Packer

  • Process evaluation in randomised controlled trials of complex interventions.

    Ann Oakley;Vicki Strange;Chris Bonell;Elizabeth Allen

  • Global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors for young people's health during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

    Ali H. Mokdad;Mohammad H ossein Forouzanfar;Farah Daoud;Arwa A. Mokdad

  • Susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Children and Adolescents Compared With Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    Russell M. Viner;Oliver T. Mytton;Chris Bonell;G. J. Melendez-Torres

  • The WHO Health Promoting School framework for improving the health and well‐being of students and their academic achievement

    Rebecca Langford;Christopher P Bonell;Hayley E Jones;Theodora Pouliou

  • The World Health Organization's Health Promoting Schools framework: a Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Rebecca Langford;Christopher Bonell;Hayley Jones;Theodora Pouliou

  • Realist randomised controlled trials: a new approach to evaluating complex public health interventions.

    Chris Bonell;Adam Fletcher;Matthew Morton;Theo Lorenc

  • Determining the optimal strategy for reopening schools, the impact of test and trace interventions, and the risk of occurrence of a second COVID-19 epidemic wave in the UK: a modelling study.

    Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths;Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths;Cliff C Kerr;Robyn M Stuart;Robyn M Stuart;Dina Mistry

  • Process evaluation in complex public health intervention studies: The need for guidance

    Graham Moore;Suzanne Audrey;Mary Barker;Lyndal Bond

  • Systematic review exploring time trends in the association between educational attainment and risk of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa

    James R Hargreaves;Christopher P Bonell;Tania Boler;Delia Boccia

  • From complex social interventions to interventions in complex social systems: future directions and unresolved questions for intervention development and evaluation

    Graham F Moore;Rhiannon E Evans;Jemma Hawkins;Hannah Littlecott

  • The sustainability of public health interventions in schools: a systematic review

    Lauren Herlitz;Lauren Herlitz;Helen MacIntyre;Tom Osborn;Chris Bonell

  • School Effects on Young People’s Drug Use: A Systematic Review of Intervention and Observational Studies

    Adam Fletcher;Chris Bonell;James Hargreaves

  • ‘Dark logic’: theorising the harmful consequences of public health interventions

    Chris Bonell;Farah Jamal;G J Melendez-Torres;Steven Cummins

  • Alternatives to randomisation in the evaluation of public health interventions: design challenges and solutions

    Christopher Philip Bonell;James R Hargreaves;Simon N Cousens;David A Ross

  • Organisational interventions for improving wellbeing and reducing work‐related stress in teachers

    Ali Naghieh;Paul Montgomery;Christopher P Bonell;Marc Thompson

  • Realist complex intervention science: Applying realist principles across all phases of the Medical Research Council framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions

    Adam Fletcher;Farah Jamal;Graham Moore;Rhiannon E. Evans

  • Development of a framework for the co-production and prototyping of public health interventions

    Jemma Hawkins;Kim Madden;Adam Fletcher;Luke Midgley

  • Effects of the Learning Together intervention on bullying and aggression in English secondary schools (INCLUSIVE): a cluster randomised controlled trial

    Chris Bonell;Elizabeth Allen;Emily Warren;Jennifer McGowan

  • Evidence-based nursing: a stereotyped view of quantitative and experimental research could work against professional autonomy and authority.

    Chris Bonell

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Fletcher
Adam Fletcher Cardiff University
Rona Campbell
Rona Campbell University of Bristol
Simon Murphy
Simon Murphy Cardiff University
Kaye Wellings
Kaye Wellings London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Peter Weatherburn
Peter Weatherburn London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Laurence Moore
Laurence Moore University of Glasgow
Lyndal Bond
Lyndal Bond Victoria University
Ford Hickson
Ford Hickson University of London
James R Hargreaves
James R Hargreaves London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Stephen Scott
Stephen Scott Queen's University

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