Janette Pow
Janette Pow

Dr Janette Pow

Lecturer

 0131 455 5303

  j.pow@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Dr Janette Pow has been a Lecturer within the School of Health and Social Care since 2013. Janette is registered with the NMC as an Adult Nurse, Health Visitor, Nurse Prescriber and Nurse Teacher. Janette qualified as a registered adult nurse in 1993 before going onto to undertake her BSc in Community Health Nursing: Specialist Practitioner Health Visitor training at Queen Margaret University. In 2002 Janette went onto complete her Masters of Public Health with the University of Dundee. In 2009 Janette completed her PhD at Â鶹ÉçÇø whilst working as a research fellow evaluating the Healthy Respect Project: A National Sexual Health Demonstration project funded by the Scottish Government. Her PhD titled ‘Assessing Partnership Working: Evidence from the National Sexual Health Demonstration Project’ was a mixed methods study incorporating the use of social network analysis to analyse the strength of the relationships between NHS, Voluntary and Education partners working together to improve the sexual health of young people in Scotland. Findings from Janette’s PhD study influenced operational policy in sexual health service provision improving access to services for young people.
Janette has recently developed a Master of Public Health Programme (MPH) for the School of Health and Social Care and both a taught and global online programme commenced January 2023. Janette teaches on a number of postgraduate modules in the School and is Programme Lead and Module Lead for a number of the modules on the new MPH Programme.
Janette is the external examiner for the Master of Public Programme at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Janette’s research interests are in public health, young people’s health and wellbeing, health improvement evaluation and assessment and community nursing. Recent research looking at HPV vaccination uptake in minority groups.
Janette has published extensively in peer reviewed Journals in this area – see research outputs. Janette is a reviewer/assessor for the Carnegie Trust and HISES and an evidence reviewer for the National Institute of Healthcare Research (NIHR).
Janette has been appointed as vice chair of the editorial board for the Scottish University Press and is a Scottish Government panel member for the Children and Young People in Scotland Group.

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Scottish Government Cross Party Group Member Children and Young People in Scotland
  • NHS Lothian Public Health (Link and Learn - Public Health CPD)

 

Editorial Activity

  • Editorial Board Member

 

External Examining/Validations

  • External Examiner GCU London MPH
  • External examiner for MPH GCU
  • Hosted Fulbright Scholar

 

Grant Funding Panel Member

  • Assessor For HISES
  • Invited to be a member of the committee for the Carnegie Vacation Scholarships Panel (commences September 2016)

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Knowledge Exchange Event: Vaccine Hesitancy Symposium: Addressing suboptimal rates of the HPV vaccine amongst boys/men

 

Reviewing

  • Reviewer NIHR
  • Reviewer for Peer Reviewed Journals and Research Textbooks

 

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Young men with intellectual disabilities’ perceptions of HPV and HPV vaccine: A qualitative study on how to communicate HPV vaccine information

Journal Article
Carnegie, E., Gray-Brunton, C., Kennedy, C., Pow, J., Willis, D., & Whittaker, A. (2025)
Young men with intellectual disabilities’ perceptions of HPV and HPV vaccine: A qualitative study on how to communicate HPV vaccine information. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 21(1), Article 2491857. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2025.2491857
The success of vaccination programs relies on acceptance of recommended vaccines by communities and individuals. There is a paucity of evidence regarding how young men with in...

A systematic review and thematic synthesis exploring how gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) experience HPV and HPV vaccination

Journal Article
Pow, J., Clarke, L., McHale, S., & Gray-Brunton, C. (2025)
A systematic review and thematic synthesis exploring how gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) experience HPV and HPV vaccination. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 21(1), Article 2490440. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2025.2490440
There are suboptimal levels of HPV vaccine uptake among gay, bisexual and men who have sex with men (GBMSM), despite the prevalence and incidence rates of HPV infection among ...

Commentary and methodological insights: Reaching girls/women, boys/men and vulnerable groups to maximise uptake for the Human papillomavirus vaccine

Journal Article
Gray Brunton, C., Pow, J., Carnegie, E., Petrova, D., Garcia Retamero, R., Whittaker, A., & Todorova, I. (2025)
Commentary and methodological insights: Reaching girls/women, boys/men and vulnerable groups to maximise uptake for the Human papillomavirus vaccine. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 21(1), Article 2478705. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2025.2478705
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has been shown to be an effective cancer-prevention vaccine against oncogenic types of the HPV virus implicated in cervical, anogenital,...

General practice nurses' experiences of participation in an advanced nursing practice education programme

Journal Article
Mundy, J., & Pow, J. (2021)
General practice nurses' experiences of participation in an advanced nursing practice education programme. British Journal of Nursing, 30(16), 964-969. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.16.964
In the UK, transformation of the nursing workforce, including development of the role of the advanced nurse practitioner within general practice, is essential to meet healthca...

Adolescents in Scotland: Challenges and Opportunities for Sexual Risk Reduction

Journal Article
Morrison-Beedy, D., Martin, C. H., Pow, J., & Elliott, L. (2019)
Adolescents in Scotland: Challenges and Opportunities for Sexual Risk Reduction. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 30(6), 619-629. https://doi.org/10.1097/jnc.0000000000000095
Sexually transmitted infections, HIV, and unplanned pregnancy challenge the health of Scottish teens. We conducted focus groups with teens (ages 16-19 years) recruited from an...

P497 A meta-synthesis of men who have sex with men (MSM)’s experiences and perceptions of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination

Presentation / Conference
Clarke, L., Pow, J., Mchale, S., & Williams, B. (2019, July)
P497 A meta-synthesis of men who have sex with men (MSM)’s experiences and perceptions of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination. Poster presented at STI & HIV World Congress (Joint Meeting of the 23rd ISSTDR and 20th IUSTI), Vancouver, Canada
Background: Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) are disproportionately burdened by diseases attributed to the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) when compared to other male populations. H...

Qualitative, critical and discursive methodology for exploring ambivalence around the HPV vaccine amongst marginalised groups

Presentation / Conference
Gray Brunton, C., Carnegie, E., Pow, J., Whittaker, A., & Todorova, I. (2017, June)
Qualitative, critical and discursive methodology for exploring ambivalence around the HPV vaccine amongst marginalised groups. Poster presented at Building trust, managing risk: vaccine confidence and Human Papillomavirus vaccination

Exploring the experiences of patients attending day hospitals in the rural Scotland: capturing the patient's voice

Journal Article
Adamson, E., Pow, J., Houston, F., & Redpath, P. (2017)
Exploring the experiences of patients attending day hospitals in the rural Scotland: capturing the patient's voice. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(19-20), 3044-3055. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13651
Aims and objectives To understand the meaning of person-centred compassionate care for people attending day hospitals in rural Scotland. Background Increasing numbers of older...

Development of a cross-cultural HPV community engagement model within Scotland

Journal Article
Carnegie, E., Whittaker, A., Gray Brunton, C., Hogg, R., Kennedy, C., Hilton, S., …Pow, J. (2017)
Development of a cross-cultural HPV community engagement model within Scotland. Health Education Journal, 76(4), 398-410. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896916685592
Objective To examine cultural barriers and participant solutions regarding acceptance and uptake of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine from the perspective of Black Afric...

Young men with intellectual disabilities’ constructions of the human papillomavirus and vaccine

Journal Article
Carnegie, E., Whittaker, A., Gray Brunton, C., Harding, S., Hilton, S., Hogg, R., …Willis, D. (2016)
Young men with intellectual disabilities’ constructions of the human papillomavirus and vaccine. European Journal of Public Health, 26(suppl_1), ckw169.050. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckw169.050
Scotland is one European country offering a national schoolbased HPV vaccination programme to at least one age-cohort of females, however it does not include young men. A subs...

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