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Zainab is working as a Research Fellow at the Health Economics Unit (HEU), University of Birmingham. She is interested in applied health economics alongside clinical trials and modelling with a particular interest in non-communicable diseases especially cardiovascular diseases and cancer.  She is also interested in developing health economic capacity in low-and middle-income countries. ...

Aditya Acharya is a Computer Scientist with expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and works as a Research Fellow in the Health Informatics, THINKING Research Group at the Institute of Applied Health Research. His research work combines Data Analytics, Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), leading to several projects in diverse areas and topics.

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Peymané is a public health physician and Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology & Public Health in the Institute of Applied Health, University of Birmingham.  She is also Lead of the PHRESH consortium, part of the NIHR School for Public Health Research.

Her research interests are in chronic disease epidemiology and behavioural medicine. This includes a portfolio of work ...

Nicki Adderley is an Associate Professor of Health Informatics and Epidemiology. She co-leads the THINKINGroup, a multi-disciplinary group of researchers and clinicians who aim to use real world, routinely collected data to produce high quality research on epidemiology, clinical practice and health care utilisation relevant to patients and clinicians. Nicki is Deputy Lead for the Birmingham BRC ...

Nafsika’s research interests are in the Economics of Obesity and the use of health economics methods to support a systems approach to obesity policy. She is particularly interested in the application of economic evaluation and decision-analytic modelling to direct decision making in the realm of obesity. 

Nafsika joined the Centre for Economics of Obesity led by Professor Emma Frew in ...

Ridhi is a medical statistician based in the Test Evaluation Research Group (TERG) within the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation (BESaTE)research group. Her main interests are in risk prediction modelling and evaluating the accuracy of medical tests in clinical trial setting. Ridhi also works on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy and ...

Dr Fazla Fayaz is a committed researcher and global health advocate with an unwavering focus on improving women's health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).  A pivotal contributor to bridging the divide between research and practical application, adept at identifying and addressing policy gaps, engaging stakeholders, and navigating barriers to leverage opportunities that ...

Lee is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director, at the Centre for Patient-Reported Outcome Research (CPROR), Institute of Applied Health Research. His research focuses on the optimisation of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) assessments for clinical research, routine clinical practice, and regulatory purposes.

Lee is the Lead for WP2 of the £12 million LifeArc Centre for ...

Dr Motunrayo Ajisola is an experienced project manager with a strong background in academic research. She has a proven track record of success in planning, management, and delivery of multidisciplinary and multi-country collaborative research projects in the United Kingdom (UK) and in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).

Motunrayo is passionate about doing research, and her research ...

Esther works as a systematic reviewer in the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluationteam conducting evidence syntheses, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and health technology assessments (HTA) to aid decision making within local and national healthcare. Esther has carried out systematic reviews in a range of therapy areas including head and neck cancer, obesity, neuroimaging, ...

Hareth is a Professor of Health Economics, with a track record of innovation in health economics, and current interest in studying real-world resource allocation decisions. He has experience across a wide range of quantitative and qualitative methods.  Hareth is head of the Health Economics Unit, Associate Editor for Social Science and Medicine, and sits on the shortlisting panel for ...

Camille Allard is a research fellow at the University of Birmingham. She recently completed her PhD on workplace support for working carers—employees who combine work alongside their care responsibilities.

Camille's research interests include unpaid care, care ethics, work, and organisations. Her current research examines how employers invest in health and wellbeing promotion at work.

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Nicola Anderson, PhD, is a Research Fellow within the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research (CPROR) at the University of Birmingham and Lead Nurse for RD & I Research Education at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.  Nicola's primary research interests are mixed methods outcomes research, with a focus on the use and implementation of electronic patient-reported ...

Luiz Andrade is a Health Economist within the Institute of Applied Health Research. He works primarily on the economic evaluation of health care interventions. 

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Ellie is a Research Associate in the Institute of Applied Health Research. She is currently working on two trials, NAP SACC UK and CANTEEN Study.

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Patricia Apenteng is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research and is funded by the West Midlands Applied Research Collaboration (ARC). 

Her research is centred on improving outcomes for patients and the efficiency of healthcare services.  She uses a range of research methodologies, and her work spans several disciplines including implementation science, ...

Lucinda is an Assistant Professor in Biostatistics, in the Tests and Prediction group at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on prediction modelling research, both prognostic and diagnostic, with a particular interest in statistical methods development and improving methodological quality of published research.

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Dr Asamane is a nutritionist and worked previously as a district nutrition officer with the Ghana Health service for 5 years in the areas of maternal and child health nutrition.

As a Marie-Sklodowska Curie early stage researcher at the University of Birmingham (UK), Dr Asamane obtained his PhD exploring nutrition and physical function of ethnic older minorities, using mixed methods. Afterwards, ...

Dr Justin Aunger is a research fellow in the NIHR Midlands Patient Safety Research Collaboration, focused on improving clinical decision-making across acute and maternal settings. He has a background in behavioural science and is interested in working on complex behavioural challenges in healthcare; he has recently worked on projects seeking to understand and improve inter-organisational ...

Dr. Haliyya Bakare is the NIHR PHIRST PHRESH Administrator at the Department of Applied Health Sciences, College of Medicine & Health, University of Birmingham. This programme is deputy-directed by Professor Peymane Adab.

Dr. Bakare supports cutting-edge research and initiatives aimed at improving population health and healthcare delivery. She is a Medical Doctor and has a Master ...

Simon is a postgraduate research student on a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) funded PhD. He is a member of the University of Birmingham Test Evaluation Research Group (TERG) and Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation (BESaTE) group, and an honorary contract holder at University Hospitals Birmingham in the Health Informatics ...

Dr Marco Bardus' research in health communication aims to understand how to effectively influence behaviours to prevent public health and environmental health issues.

His research focuses on developing, implementing, and evaluating public health interventions using a strategic social marketing framework. His research is placed at the intersection between social and behaviour change ...

Dr Suzanne Bartington leads interdisciplinary research and policy impact focussed activities at the intersect of air quality, climate change and health.

Suzanne has developed specific interests in developing clean air and climate solutions which deliver co-benefits for public health and equity. In her role as UK Clean Air Championshe works closely with policymakers, commercial and ...

Pelham Barton is an Honorary Reader in Mathematical Modelling in the Health Economics Unit. He has over 120 publications, of which over 100 are academic papers published in peer-reviewed journals. On almost all of these his contribution was to lead the economic and mathematical modelling aspects of the study.   

Pelham is an internationally recognised expert in modelling applied ...

Sophie works as a Systematic Reviewer in the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation group, having previously held a Research Methods Fellowship in Systematic Reviews.

She recently graduated with an MPH from the University of Birmingham and has specialist knowledge in evidence synthesis and research methods. Sophie has worked on reviews of test accuracy, effectiveness and risk ...

Sarah Berhane is a research fellow in medical statistics based in the Institute of Applied Health Research. She is a member of the Test Evaluation Research Group (TERG) and the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation (BESaTE) teams.

Sarah’s main research interests are diagnostic and prognostic modelling for clinical prediction, and systematic reviews of diagnostic test ...

Mr Aneel Bhangu is Professor of Global Surgery at the University of Birmingham and a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at University Hospital Birmingham. His clinical practice includes management of colorectal cancer, common proctological problems, and a range of general and emergency conditions. Aneel is based in the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences. His full online CV can be found ...

Jon Bishop is a senior medical statistician at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) and the NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC).

Jon is interested in the design, conduct and analysis of large scale late phase randomised controlled clinical trials (RCTs). In his BCTU work he assesses medical, surgical, and complex interventions in a diverse portfolio of ...

Steven is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Health Sciences, University of Birmingham. An applied health researcher, with specific expertise in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE). Steven has several roles across multiple research infrastructure organisations. He is an Advisor and PPIE Lead at the NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) delivered by the University ...

Sonja joined the Health Economics Unit in October 2018 as a PhD student focussing on the measurement of costs and benefits for sexual health control programmes. Sonja is supervised by Health Economics Unit’s Dr Louise Jackson, Professor Emma Frew and Professor Jonathan Ross (University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB). It is a three year Umbrella Sexual Health ...

Kristien Boelaert is a Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Birmingham and a Consultant Endocrinologist at University Hospitals Birmingham. Her clinical research interests include the management of thyroid dysfunction, nodules and endocrine disorders in pregnancy. Her laboratory research programme focuses on the pathogenesis of thyroid cancer and she is involved in a number of clinical ...

Olga is a medical sociologist with the expertise in process evaluations, implementation research and theories of health and illness. She is a qualitative and mixed-method methodologist who has been exploring patients’ and professional stakeholders’ perspectives in order to understand their experiences of health and health care. Olga’s recent interests are coalesced around ...

Elizabeth Brettell is Trials Management Team Leader at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU), where she has worked since 1998 co-ordinating large randomised controlled clinical trials in Alzheimer’s Disease, Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, women’s health and renal disease.

Peter Brocklehurst is Professor erasmus of Women’s Health and Director of Research and Development for the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Peter trained as an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist before moving into academia to train as a perinatal epidemiologist.  He is a consultant in public health and his major research focus has ...

Stephanie is a Senior Trial Manager for the ECAL trial.

Ceren is a postgraduate student working on late effects in survivors of cancer in childhood, teenage or young adulthood at the Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivor Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Professor Melanie Calvert, PhD, is Professor of Outcomes Methodology at the University of Birmingham UK. She is Director of Birmingham Health Partners Centre for Regulatory Science and Innovation and Director of the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Researchwhich aims to optimize the use of patient reported outcomes (PROs) in clinical trials and routine care, to improve service delivery, ...

Hilary is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Her current research seeks to identify the impact of colleague suicide on NHS staff, and what needs they have following colleague suicide in order to inform postvention guidance. Her research background is in adult mental health and qualitative methods, her interests include workplace wellbeing and the impact of adverse ...

Professor Chandan is a Clinical Professor of Public Health at the University of Birmingham. His primary research focuses on identifying and addressing health inequalities, supported through novel data science approaches.

To date, Joht has spent considerable time working on designing and delivering a public health approach to abuse and violence. This includes research into finding what works to ...

Versha Cheed is a Senior Statistician at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Versha works on a portfolio of clinical trials mainly in obstetrics and gynaecology as well as intraoperative care, social care and assessing medical, surgical and complex interventions.

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KK Cheng (郑家强) has been Professor at the University of Birmingham since 1995. His main interests are in the epidemiology, prevention and control of important non-communicable diseases, and the development of primary care in China.

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Peter Chilton works as a Research Fellow and Communication Lead for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West Midlands. 

As a Research Fellow his work includes researching and writing papers and reviews for peer-reviewed publication and external funding bodies; sourcing references; and preparing presentations. As Communication Lead he is ...

Sopna is a highly motivated and versatile research professional with over 15 years of health research and project management experience, both in the UK and international. A passionate individual who is eager to help improve the lives of people living with ill health. A strategic project manager with expertise in management of medical research programmes and clinical trials development nationally ...

Bircan is a qualitative and mixed-method researcher specialising in Migration, Community Engagement, and Equity, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EEDI), with a particular focus on the identity and belonging of migrants without migration experience, and consensus methodology. Currently, Bircan is working with the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and prediction Models (BESTEAM) ...

Professor Clarke has a long history of research in Parkinson's disease and headache disorders. He runs large pragmatic clinical trials examining medical, surgical and rehabilitation interventions in Parkinson's disease (PD MED, PD SURG, PD REHAB, PD COMM and PD GEN).

 

Joanne Clarke is a Research Fellow for the ABA-feed Infant Feeding Study

Jo is a mixed-methods researcher with a particular interest in public health, infant feeding, obesity prevention, school health and FGM.

 

Dr Connor’s areas of research include 1) the history of anaesthesia, particularly military anaesthesia and 2) the history of provincial medicine and provincial medical societies and associations in the nineteenth century.
He is a member and previous council member of the History of Anaesthesia Society. He is a member of several societies relating to the history of medicine and has lectured ...

April Coombe is an experienced information specialist who works in the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and Modelling (BESTEAM) research group in the Department of Applied Health Sciences.

April trained as a librarian, and has substantial Information Specialist experience working across the academic and NHS sectors.

Her current focus is on developing search ...

Fiona is a Research Fellow for the Applied Research Collaborative (West Midlands) in the Maternity Theme. She is particularly interested in postnatal care, ethnicity and perinatal and maternal morbidity. She has previously worked on the evaluation of the Birmingham and Solihull United Maternity and Partnership (BUMP) implementation of the Better Birth (2016) ...

Francesca Crowe is an epidemiologist and health informatician with an interest in using health data to understand modifiable risk factors for common health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Francesca's other main area of interest is conducting data-enabled clinical trials in primary care that leverage health data collection and analysis to enhance the efficiency and ...

Samantha Cruz Rivera, PhD, has expertise in the design and analysis of Delphi methodology, systematic reviews, surveys and co-designing research with patient advocates and members of the public. Her main research interests are assessment of patient reported outcomes (PROs) and maximising the impact of PROs from clinical trials. Other research interests include artificial intelligence and ...

Carole Cummins is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Applied Health Research and Director of the Birmingham and Brunel External Assessment Centre for NICE.

Her current research includes health services research focussed on children’s healthcare as part of the NIHR Birmingham and Black Country Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care and primary and ...

Amanda Daley is a reader in behavioural medicine and leads the behavioural medicine team in primary care.  Her work is focused on investigating the effects of lifestyle interventions on health outcomes, particularly around women’s health.  She is the principal investigator on several on-going trials that are examining the effectiveness of physical activity and weight control ...

Sarah Damery has been a Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research since September 2008. She was initially part of the cancer research team within the Department of Primary Care Clinical Sciences and worked on a number of projects centred on cancer and chronic disease early diagnosis and screening uptake. 

From 2014 to 2019 Sarah was a research fellow in the chronic ...

Clare Davenport is an Associate Clinical Professor working in the Department of Applied Health Sciences. She is a member of the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and Modelling team.

Clare collaborates on methodological and applied health research projects. Her research interests include methods for undertaking systematic reviews of test accuracy, methods for evaluating the ...

Professor Justine Davies' aim is to do research that informs development of health systems that deliver quality care in lower- or middle-income countries. All of her research aims to answer a policy relevant question and she often works with policy makers, including the WHO, to develop and answer questions of relevance to them. 

Professor Davies is passionate about capacity building, ...

Jon Deeks is Professor of Biostatistics and leads the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation Research Group in the Department of Applied Health Sciences. He is also a Theme Lead within the NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre.

Jon trained as a medical statistician, and has followed a career which has given him broad experience across health research through working ...

Prof Alastair Denniston is Professor of Regulatory Science and Innovation at the University of Birmingham and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist at University Hospitals Birmingham NHSFT. He is a leader in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Health Technologies.

Prof Denniston and Dr Xiaoxuan Liu co-lead the AI & Digital Health Group, a research and policy group ...

Renuka is a qualified clinician by background and is based in the Department of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Birmingham and at the Department of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes at Birmingham Children’s Hospital (BCH).

Her main research focus is in Type 1 Diabetes and rare disease (specifically Wolfram Syndrome and Thyroid Disorders).  She is specifically focussed ...

Andy is an Honorary Research Fellow for the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham. Andy is  Lead Research Fellow for Breathe Well; an NIHR-funded Global Health Research Group on COPD in Primary Care. The aim of the programme is to foster research in primary care and the community to improve the diagnosis, management and prognosis of COPD patients in low and middle ...

Dr Emma Dickinson-Craig is pursuing a PhD researching air pollution interventions and maternal health in Mongolia.

Her main research interests are maternal health, environmental health and health systems in LMIC.

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Jac Dinnes is a Senior Researcher in the Test Evaluation Research Group at the Institute of Applied Health Research. Her main interests are in diagnostic test accuracy systematic reviews and in methodological research to identify and validate the best ways of designing and analysing studies to evaluate medical tests used for diagnostic and monitoring purposes. 

Dr Lavanya Diwakar clinical academic, with expertise in immunology and health economics. Lavanya is currently working with various colleagues across the midlands as a part of an NIHR development and skills enhancement fellowship.

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Dr Alexandra Dobell is a research fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research.  She currently works across the NIHR funded EPIC study and as a Research Site Manager for the NAP SACC study.

Dr Lucy Doos is a senior trial manager at Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit.

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Janine has considerable experience in conducting evidence syntheses, systematic reviews, meta-analyses and health technology assessments (HTA) to inform local and national healthcare decision making. Research outputs include reports commissioned by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme. Janine has an interest in ...

Christina Easter is a Medical Statistician in the Institute of Applied Health Research and a member of the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation (BESaTE) research group. Christina’s main research interests are in prognosis and more recently cluster randomised trials. Christina also works for the West Midlands Research Design Service (RDS) as a statistical advisor.

Dr Viktoria Eleftheriadou is a Consultant Dermatologist at Walsall Healthcare & The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trusts.

Her research interests include vitiligo and skin pigmentary disorders, evidence-based dermatology, trials methodology, outcome measures and qualitative research. She was awarded her PhD on vitiligo in 2013, which was conducted at the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology, ...

Dr Khalifa Elmusharaf is an Associate Professor and Director of the Public Health Programme at the University of Birmingham Dubai. 

Dr Elmusharaf is medically qualified. He obtained his PhD in Public Health from University of Galway in Ireland. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health at the Royal College of Physicians UK, and is accredited reviewer by the European Agency for Public ...

Alexandra Enocson is the Programme manager of several Global Health projects, set in Low-middle income countries.

Alex also managed Breathe Well, an NIHR-funded Global Health programme, in the Institute of Applied Health Research and the Birmingham Lung Improvement StudieS (BLISS) programme, which is a series of connected research studies about COPD, funded by an NIHR five-year programme grant. ...

Dr Amanda Farley is an Associate Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology working in the Department of Applied Health Sciences. She has 20 years’ experience of research within the field of public health and teaches epidemiology and research methods on the masters in public health (MPH), undergraduate medical sciences (BMedSc) and undergraduate medicine degree ...

Qulsom is a social psychologist with an interest in all things human. She is particularly interested in the social and cultural factors that influence psychological illness and mental wellbeing both in terms of the role they play in triggering mental illness and also in terms of presentation of illness whilst working with families with disabled children.

In 2000 and 2001, she developed both an ...

Dr Anthony Fenton is an Honorary NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Renal Medicine, with research interests in chronic kidney disease (CKD), prognosis research, medical statistics, and big data. In this role, he will build on his previous work on prognosis research in CKD by examining the use and validity of a prognostic model (Kidney Failure Risk Equation) in the UK primary care population. He is also a ...

Lavinia Ferrante di Ruffano is a methodologist working in the Medical Test and Biomarker Evaluation Research Group, led by Professor Jon Deeks. Her main research focus is developing the methods for evaluating the clinical effectiveness of diagnostic tests.

Dr Finnikin is a GP who is interested in shared decision making and personalised care. He has done research into how risk scores are used in CVD prevention and experience of using primary care datasets to answer investigate clinical decision making.

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Michelle is currently working as a research fellow with an interest in public health research. Working in Applied Health Sciences, Michelle is delivering on an NIHR funded interdisciplinary project exploring gambling-related harms. This project aims to review the effects of interventional public health law, explore population level harms, and develop a core outcome set to guide public health ...

Ben joined the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research (CPROR) in November 2019 to work on a three year project funded by Kidney Research UK.  The objective of the project is to develop a new electronic questionnaire to measure patient outcomes and improve the management of kidney diseases.

Ben has an interest in mixed-methods research, particularly stated preference studies.

Emma’s research interests are in the Economics of Obesity and the use of health economics methods to generate evidence to support public health decision making.  The application of these methods includes economic evaluation, econometric and decision-analytic modelling methods. 

Emma leads The Centre for Economics of Obesity, a new Centre for using health economics to support ...

Clare Frobisher is an Honorary Research Fellow on the British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (BCCSS). 

Clare has published over 20 research papers in scientific journals and presented her work at several International and European conferences on the late effects of childhood cancer.

Her work from the BCCSS has explored the following areas of research in relation to 5-year survivors of ...

Lin’s research interests are in the economics of obesity; migration, vulnerability, and wellbeing; and the determinants of health-compromising behaviours.

Lin joined the Centre for Economics of Obesity led by Professor Emma Frew in December 2021. Her research focuses on transforming urban food systems funded by the UK Research and Innovation Mandala consortium programme. 

Mike Gardner is a Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Health Sciences.

Mike has more than 20 years’ research experience in epidemiology, systematic reviewing, meta-analyses and health-related research. Mike is an NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) Advisor, RSS EDI Joint Lead and RSS Fellowship Champion (University of Birmingham and Partners). In this role he provides advice ...

Dr Kate Garrott is a Research Fellow within the PHRESH Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Team (PHIRST). Kate’s research interests are population level public health interventions with an interest in environmental interventions to promote physical activity and healthier diets. Within her role she undertakes research on co-developed evaluations of local authority led public health ...

Dr Geiringer is a social and cultural historian of modern Britain, with a particular interest in the histories of sexuality, religion, gender and emotions. He has published on Catholicism and sexuality, participatory oral history methods, the history of the home computer and anti-racism in the inner city.

His current role involves working with Dr Anne Hanley on the UKRI-funded project Histories ...

Senior Researcher at Global Health Unit. Currently working on “Equitable Access to Quality Health Care for Injured People in Four Low or Middle Income Countries”.

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Alan Girling has published research papers in Statistical Methodology, Applied Statistics and Health Economics, and has contributed to many medical research projects.

 

Eleni is a Medical Statistician working at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in the Institute of Applied Health Research. She works on clinical trials in the areas of Women’s Health, Portfolio V, Primary Care, and Renal. Her main responsibilities include the analysis and reporting of trials as well as the design and development of new trials under the mentorship of a Senior ...

Krishna Gokhale is a computer scientist focused on building game changing technologies to automate the process of data extraction and analysis for routine epidemiological research and developing scalable solutions to securely and safely integrate various healthcare data sources across patient care pathway.

Krishna is the architect and the developer of DExtER (Data Extractor for Epidemiological Re ...

Wenjie Gong, BM, PhD, is Professor at the Department of Maternal and Child Health of Central South University and the founding Executive Deputy director of H.E.R (Health, Education & Research for Women) Center at the Hunan Provincial Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital. 

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Tiffany is a research fellow in global health with a focus in epidemiology and health systems research using both quantitative and qualitative methods. She has worked on various projects in Brazil, China, Nepal, Tanzania, The Gambia, Sri Lanka and the UK. Tiffany’s PhD was focused on the epidemiology of and health services for people living with HIV and comorbidities of non-communicable ...

Sheila Greenfield is Professor of Medical Sociology in the Institute of Applied Health Research.  

Sheila teaches medical sociology on the MBChBcourse. She is a qualitative methodologist and her research is focussed on two main areas; the design and implementation of qualitative methodology as a component of mixed methods research; the methods people use to self-manage their health either ...

Donal is a Research Associate working in the Health Economics Unit. He is currently working on the ROCkeTS project which is a diagnostic test accuracy study that aims to identify, refine and validate tests and clinical risk scores that estimate the probability of having ovarian cancer in post and premenopausal women.

Donal is also working on the LORIS project which is a phase III trial of ...

Ryan is a Senior Trial Manager at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU).

Dr Naijie (Katherine) Guan is a Research Fellow and Assistant Director of Teaching in the Health Economics Unit within the Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham

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Jack Hall is a medical statistician at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU).

Jack’s interests are in the design, conduct and analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and cluster randomised trials (CRTs). He is the trial statistician for trials in vascular surgery, gastroenterology, intensive care, paediatric medicine, and women’s health.

James is a personable and enthusiastic research fellow in Health Economics at the University of Birmingham.

James recently passed his PhD VIVA, entitled “An exploration of the use of decision analytic modelling in low back pain and sciatica”.  Accordingly, he is interested in the novel application of decision modelling in a variety of research areas, such air pollution and ...

Kelly Handley is a Senior Medical Statistician at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Kelly is interested in the design, conduct and analysis of large scale late phase randomised controlled clinical trials. She is the senior statistician on a wide variety of clinical trials in the areas of colorectal cancer, surgery, hepatology and cardiology, ...

Dr Hanley is a historian of medicine and modern Britain and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, with particular interest in the history of sexual and reproductive health. Her publications span a broad range of topics in medicine, welfare and sexuality during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In recent years, her research and teaching have become increasingly interdisciplinary, drawing ...

Stephanie is a Research Fellow working on the MuM-PreDiCT project. Her research focuses on pregnancy and postpartum care, working in collaboration with women and staff. She has skills in qualitative and quantitative research and analysis, and co-designing research with service users.

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Sayeed Haque is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics. 

 

Shamil is a clinical epidemiologist with a special interest in respiratory and chronic diseases. Shamil's research focuses on long COVID, asthma, and COPD, although he does have a broad interest in public health, primary care, and health data science.

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Lorraine Harper is Professor of Nephrology at the University of Birmingham. She has published over 70 research papers in scientific journals as well as reviews and book chapters in the fields of inflammation and nephrology. She has received major grants from Kidney Research UK and the Medical Research Council. 

Lorraine is a strong supporter of academic training supporting the ...

Melita is based in the Institute of Applied Health Research.  She works as PA to Professor Richard Lilford and Senior Administrator for ‘Team Lilford’. 

Previously she worked as Senior Administrator for the NICE External Assessment Centre, directed by Dr Carole Cummins.  Prior to this she was the 5^th Year CBM coordinator and support for Dr Russell Cherry.

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Ciara Harris is a chartered physiotherapist, who worked clinically full-time within the NHS, across a range of clinical specialities, for 4 years before moving to the University of Birmingham as a research associate in February 2018. She also continues some clinical work alongside her research role.

Her research interests lie in the evolving delivery of acute healthcare outside the traditional ...

Matt is operations manager (administration) for BCTU, with an initial focus on monitoring/supporting BCTU finances, staffing and systems. Matt works closely with the MDS Finance Team and UoB Post-Award teams.

Mike Hawkins is Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivors Studies.

He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed scientific and clinical journals mostly relating to the long-term health and social consequences of being treated for cancer. Mike has received programme grant funding from Cancer Research UK, the Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund and the ...

Jon is an Academic Clinical Lecturer (ACL) in Endocrinology within the IMSR. His principle interests are in complex endocrine obesity (the interaction between obesity and endocrinopathies) and type 2 diabetes mellitus. His current work includes obesity, thyroid disease as well as PCOS. Previous work has focused on pre-receptor steroid metabolism as well as the metabolic consequence of ...

Dr Vanessa Heggie is a historian of modern science and medicine, with a particular interest in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century biomedical and life sciences. She also dabbles in the philosophy of science. 

Vanessa has published books on the history of exploration and physiology, and on sports medicine, and many articles and chapters on a range of topics from Victorian nursing ...

Karla is a Professor of Biostatistics at the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, UK. Karla’s research interests include how to design cluster and stepped-wedge trials so as to maximise their statistical efficiency and minimise their risk of bias; how to model time and treatment effect heterogeneity in longitudinal cluster trials; and the ethical issues ...

Bethany Hillier is based in the Test Evaluation Research Group within the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Bethany is finishing her MSc Medical Statistics at the University of Leicester. Once complete, Bethany will be exposed to a variety of projects, methods and techniques under the guidance of the research group. The group’s interests include systematic reviews, meta-analyses ...

Jo has overall management of Institute administration processes and procedures, in addition, she manages the IAHR/BCTU admin team.

Her varied role includes ensuring compliance to a full range of University requirements and delivery of key priorities in support of the Institute leadership team.

 

Victoria is a NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. With a special interest in preterm birth prevention and support the running of the specialised preterm birth service at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. The clinic works to prevent pregnancy loss and reduce preterm birth.

Victoria's research interests include all aspects of maternal and fetal health. She is currently ...

James Hodgkinson is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham. James is both a medical sociologist with a particular interest in qualitative methodology, and an experienced systematic reviewer who has led and supported a range of reviews. He has, however, enjoyed using a full range of research methodologies in health services research, also including ...

Dr Sedighe Jebeli is a health economist who joined Health Economics Unit in June 2024 as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow. Before this role, Sedi was working with Newcastle University as a Research Associate.

During her professional career, Sedi has collaborated with number of different international organizations including World Health Organization, RAND Europe, United Nation Development Program ...

Sarah is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research (CPROR), Institute of Applied Health Research. Her research interests focus on the development and validation of patient reported outcomes and their implementation within the evolving landscapes of health and social care. She has methodological expertise in qualitative and mixed-methods research, evidence ...

Chris is a windsurfer working as a Research Associate (Frontend Engineer) in the Health Informatics, THINKING Research Group at the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Chris is a Consultant Respiratory Physician who specialises in interstitial (ILD) and occupational lung diseases (OLD) at the Birmingham Regional Interstitial Lung Disease Service and Birmingham Regional Occupational Lung Disease Service. His primary research interests are epidemiological studies exploring association and causation within ILD and OLD, with broad experience in large data studies ...

Agnieszka Ignatowicz is an Assistant Professor in Health Research Methods.

She is an experienced applied health researcher with a unique profile through her previous experiences of leading and working on projects at the interface between health services, education and clinical ethics. Her scholarship is grounded in qualitative methodology with application to organisation and delivery of care ...

Dr. Ilozumba is a Qualitative Research Fellow

She is a public health researcher, behavioural scientist and educator. Her research interests centre on improving the health of individuals and communities, particularly in resource limited contexts and for marginalized and minority populations.

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Fatihah (Frankie) Iman is a qualitative researcher currently working on the P-PAF project exploring patient pathways to diagnosis of atrial fibrillation.

Becky is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Unit at the Institute of Applied Health Research. She is currently working on the NIHR School for Social Care Research funded project “When the money runs out?” with Dr Phil Kinghorn and Dr Denise Tanner, investigating what happens in cases of capital depletion for people living in care homes.

Ayesha is a Research Associate in the Health Economics Unit. She is currently working on the NIHR funded project which aims to undertake a cost consequence analysis of care home closures.

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Ryan Irwin is a Population Health Executive with Cerner and has a particular interest in primary care and population health improvement.  He has wide experience across health and care strategy, development and delivery and has served as a director and non-executive director across public, private and third sector health and care organisations. 

Ryan has a clinical background with a BSc ...

Jonathan Ives is a Honorary Senior Lecturer with the Institute of Applied Health Research.  Jonathan's current post is with the University of Bristol. 
 
Jon publishes predominantly in the field of biomedical ethics, focussing on fatherhood and families, methods in empirical bioethics and research ethics  He is also interested in, and publishes on, public health ethics and ...

Louise Jackson is a Professor within the Department of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Birmingham.

Louise is Co-Head of Education for the School of Health Sciences which involves overseeing education provision across all postgraduate and undergraduate programmes for the Institute.

Louise has broad range of methodological experience and expertise. She is interested in applied ...

Rebecca is a mixed methods researcher whose interests lie in implementation science spanning health and social care. She focuses on three areas of study: mixed methods data integration; the implementation and evaluation of health and social care interventions, and knowledge mobilisation: the movement of research knowledge into active practice-based use. Rebecca is interested in realist evaluation ...

Kate Jolly is a Professor of Public Health and Primary Care.

Her main research interests are on the prevention and management of important non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular and respiratory conditions; behaviour change to reduce obesity and increase physical activity and maternal and child health.

 

Ellie is currently undertaking an NIHR Advanced Fellowship to explore smoking cessation interventions for pregnant women with moderate to severe mental illness.

Ellie’s primary research interests are maternal health, perinatal mental health, pelvic floor muscle exercises for preventing urinary incontinence and postnatal care.

Ellie is involved in teaching and is a mentor for postgraduate ...

Professor Laura Jones is a Professor of Qualitative and Mixed Methods Women’s Health Research in the Department of Applied Health Sciences (AHS) and also Public Health and Women’s Health Team Lead in AHS.  Laura is also Deputy Director of Post Graduate Studies (Mental Health and Wellbeing) in the College of Medicine and Health.

Laura’s research focusses ...

Janet Jones is a Research Fellow in the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations, West Midlands team, working on theme 1, Long Term Conditions.

Janet’s research interests include: safety in care homes, health and social care service delivery for the elderly and those with long-term conditions, The use of virtual software for routine hospital outpatient appointments, evaluating the ...

Rachel Jordan is a Professor in Epidemiology & Primary Care. Her research focuses mainly on the early diagnosis, management and prognosis of COPD in the primary care setting.

She has successfully led several NIHR-funded programmes including a £2.4m programme grant and a £2m Global Health Research Group grant and is currently co-lead of Breathe Well South America, a £3m ...

Linju is a Global Challenges PhD scholar at UoB College of Medical and Dental Sciences. Her project will be a mixed methods study which will include preliminary qualitative research and the development and piloting of a patient held booklet (intervention) for non-communicable disease in India. 

This project is a continuation of the Clinical Handover project in India by University of ...

Sue Jowett is a Professor in the Health Economics Unit (HEU) with an extensive portfolio of applied research concerning trial and model-based economic evaluations in chronic diseases. Sue also oversees health economics research within studies undertaken by Primary Care researchers in the School of Medicine at Keele University, as part of a formal collaboration between the HEU and Keele. ...

Mwayi Kachapila is a Research Fellow in Health Economics at the Health Economics Unit/NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery, University of Birmingham. He has research interest in economic evaluations of surgical interventions in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).

Mwayi's research outputs include economic evaluations of surgical interventions, cost of untreated surgical ...

Divya Kapoor is a Trial Coordinator within the Children’s Cancer Trials Team at the Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit (CRCTU), Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the University of Birmingham. 

Prior to this, Divya worked as a Clinical Data Manager on the National Lung Matrix Trial,a multi-drug, multi-centre, non-comparative, multi-arm phase II trial in non-small cell ...

Sivesh is a NIHR Doctoral Fellow and General Surgery Registrar in the West Midlands. He is undertaking a mixed methods PhD on developing and testing complex interventions for multimorbidity in surgical patients. His PhD is based on utilising principles of the NIHR / MRC Complex Intervention framework and includes methodologies such as data science and implementation science.

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Dr Punith Kempegowda is an Assistant Professor and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy at the University of Birmingham. He is also a consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham with special interest in reproductive endocrinology and acute diabetes. His research interests are in providing best possible care to people with diabetes and endocrine conditions and developing ...

Sara Kenyon is midwife by background who leads a programme of maternity research. This includes the large randomised controlled trials, mixed methods studies and implementation studies.

She is also a collaborator on the UK confidential enquiries into maternal and perinatal death (MBRRACE UK).  

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Foram is a dedicated public health professional driven by a profound commitment to enhancing population health and effecting positive change. With a solid foundation in public health research, program evaluation, and health promotion, Foram has devoted herself to tackling urgent public health challenges and contributing to the creation of impactful interventions. Through collaboration with ...

Jesse Kigozi is an Associate Professor in the Health Economics Unit (HEU), University of Birmingham and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre at Keele University.  He is an experienced researcher in applied research concerning trial-based evaluations particularly in the area of musculoskeletal disease. Jesse is the health economist on health ...

Philip is a Senior Lecturer in the Health Economics Unit. His research interests relate to the measurement and valuation of outcomes in economic evaluation.  In particular, Philip is interested in the inclusion of broader outcomes within economic evaluations of health and social care interventions and the use of the capability approach within health economics.

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Mrs Katie Kirkham is a Senior Trial Manager for the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU), within the Deprtment of Applied Health Sciences, University of Birmingham.

Laura Kudrna is an Assistant Professor in Health Research Methods at the University of Birmingham.  She researches behaviour change and wellbeing and has specific interests in topics related to workplaces, income and inequalities. 

Derek Kyte, PhD, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, has extensive experience in trials methodology, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and epidemiology. His primary research interests surround health outcomes, including the best-practice use of patient-reported outcome (PRO) assessment in clinical trials and routine practice.

Mr Neeraj Lal is an Academic Clinical Lecturer in General Surgery.  His major research interest is in the immunogenomics of colorectal cancer, with the aim of developing new immunotherapeutic strategies in this common cancer type.  He has held current and previous research funding from the National Institute of Health and Care Research, Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council ...

Joe is a Research Fellow working in the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research (CPROR). He is currently working on the Inclusive PRO study which is supported by the Birmingham NIHR BRC and CRF. 

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Emma Lancashire is currently the trial coordinator for a cluster randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of an obesity prevention intervention in primary school age children. Prior to that she was the research manager for the British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, a long term follow up study of the survivors of childhood cancer.

Professor Deirdre Lane is an Honorary Professor of Cardiovascular Health at the University of Birmingham and an Adjunct Professor of Cardiovascular Health at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Her background is in health psychology and cardiovascular epidemiology and her research examines how cardiovascular disease affects patients’ quality of life and psychological well-being, their ...

Professor Dan Lasserson is the only Professor of Ambulatory Care in the UK. His research group tackles one of the biggest challenges that healthcare is facing – the delivery of acute medical care, where needs are increasing year by year but the available resources to meet those needs are limited. Both primary and secondary care acute services are increasingly stretched and calls for new ...

Anna Lavis is an Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology in the Institute of Applied Health Research, and the Institute for Mental Health. 

In a range of collaborations across academic, policy and clinical interfaces, her work has two core focuses:

1. Anna leads a programme of research into social media and health, with a particular focus on mental health. She directs the Social Media ...

Ing joined the public health training scheme as an academic clinical fellow after completing her general practitioner training

Amardeep is a Research Fellow based in the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and Modelling (BESTEAM) team at the University of Birmingham.

Amardeep’s current main focus is on prediction modelling methodology projects with an application to machine learning.  He recently graduated with a PhD at Keele University and has also previously held a NIHR Research Methods ...

Richard was a full time NHS general practitioner for over 30 years and has previously held academic positions at Oxford and Yale. He is committed to an overarching view of medicine as a scientific and humane enterprise to be shared with patients and society. The term Shared Understanding of Medicine is a fusion of Evidence Based Medicine, Shared Decision Making and Patient-Centred Medicine.

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Elizabeth is an Assistant Professor in applied heath surgical research, global surgery, surgical innovation, and medical devices, and she is a General Surgery Resident

Elizabeth has a background in translational research, international cohort studies and clinical trials, and is formally trained in health research methodology, health economics, qualitative research, behavioural science and ...

Professor Richard Lilford has pursued a successful career in medicine for over 40 years, specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology and more recently, health service research. He has research methodological expertise in the evaluation of complex interventions and prospective health economic evaluations of service delivery interventions. He has designed a framework for the evaluation of complex ...

Rachel’s primary focus at present is in global health, particularly in the fields of surgery and maternal health, addressing urgent clinical needs of people living in the global south. As Deputy Trials Management Team Leader, Rachel oversees a portfolio of trials managed by Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, in strategic partnership with NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgeryand ...

Professor Lip is a clinical researcher, with a major interest into the epidemiology of atrial fibrillation (AF), as well as the pathophysiology of thromboembolism in this arrhythmia.  Furthermore, he has been researching stroke and bleeding risk factors, and improvements in clinical risk stratification.  The CHA₂DS₂-VASc and HAS-BLED scores - for assessing stroke and bleeding risk, ...

Ian Litchfield is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, with a background in occupational medicine and interests in health service delivery. He uses qualitative and quantitative research methods in the evaluation of service delivery interventions in both primary and secondary care. Ian is currently co-lead of the Centre of ...

Lefan joined the Health Economics Unit as a research fellow in July 2023 and is working closely with Dr Philip Kinghorn on an NIHR funded project about Family Group Conferencing (FGC) within adult social care and mental health.

Lefan will be contributing to the project by collecting primary data and using her expertise in quantitative and economic analytical tools.

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Dr Xiaoxuan (Xiao, pronounced "Shau") Liu is an Associate Professor in AI and Digital Health Technologies and an Honorary Clinician Scientist at the University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. She is the AI theme lead for the Birmingham Health Partners Centre for Regulatory Science and Innovation.

Dr Liu was appointed a 125^th ...

Zulian Liu is a Honorary Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research and currently a Senior Systematic Reviewer at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford.

Zulian has worked in various research capacities, undertaking systematic reviews, rapid evidence reviews and health technology assessments for UK regional and national organisations including ...

Christine MacArthur is Professor of Maternal and Child Epidemiology in the Institute of Applied Health Research.  Her main research is on childbirth-related health problems especially longer-term, as well as the evaluation of maternity health services. She has published many papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as several books and ...

Clare is a PhD student exploring how to improve identification and management of mental and other health problems in the GP postnatal check.  She started her studentship with the NIHR ARC West Midlands Maternity Theme in April 2021. She is also a practicing GP in Leicester, and completed her medical training in Norfolk and Derbyshire. Clare has a longstanding interest in postnatal care ...

Alisha is a Medical Statistician within Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in the School of Health Sciences.

She works across a range of clinical areas including women’s health (Obstetrics and Gynaecology), Endocrinology and Diabetes.

Bassit’s research interests are in public health economics and obesity. He is particularly interested in the use of decision-analytical modelling methods.

He has recently joined the Centre for Economics of Obesity, led by Professor Emma Frew, where he is pursuing a National Institute of Health and Research funded PhD.

Bassit’s research explores decision-analytical modelling to ...

Rebecca is a currently a Clinical Research Fellow in Obstetrics and Gynaecology undertaking a PhD. Research interests include all aspects of maternal and fetal medicine and improving obstetric outcomes. She is currently supporting the CHAPTER study, aiming to improve the care of those who have sustained childbirth related perineal trauma. 

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Semira Manaseki-Holland trained as a public health physician in England with joint qualifications in paediatrics with research leadership focus on health systems and maternal-child health. Semira has focussed on research and service development in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) over a 25-year period. Semira worked in the NHS for 9 years after which she intensified her global health ...

Emma Marks is Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Officer for NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West Midlands (ARC WM).  Emma’s role ensures that there is meaningful involvement with patients and the public in applied health research.

Tom Marshall is a Professor of Public Health and Primary Care. His main medical speciality is in Public Health Medicine but he also has trained in General Practice and has studied Health Economics.

Tom has over 70 peer reviewed publications to date, over 35 as first author and a significant number as sole author. His research publications cover a number of related areas.

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Dr Martin is a social and cultural historian of modern Britain, with a particular interest in histories of gender and sexuality, histories of health and the body, and queer history.

Her current role involves working with Dr Anne Hanley on the UKRI-funded project Histories of Sexual Health in Modern Britain. The project maps sexual health histories from the end of the First World War to ...

James Martin is an Assistant Professor in Biostatistics in the Institute of Applied Health Research. He is a member of the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and Modelling (BESTEAM) research group.

Since joining the Institute in 2012, James has been involved in many exciting projects, collaborating with other members of the BESaTE team, colleagues from the University of ...

Jonathan is an Associate Professor in Qualitative and Mixed Methods Applied Health Research.  He has broad based expertise in the application of qualitative and mixed methods research approaches in a range of applied health and policy contexts.

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Lynsay is a Honorary Research Fellow on the LAVA trial, comparing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of laparoscopic hysterectomy with abdominal hysterectomy. Lynsay undertakes the qualitative process evaluation addressing the acceptability and feasibility of the trial to women and health care professionals.

For more info on LAVA please see www.bham.ac.uk/lava 

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Christel is a Qualitative Research Fellow in the Centre for Patient-Reported Outcomes Research in the Institute of Applied Health Research. Her main interests lie in electronic Patient Reported Outcomes and using Qualitative Research to explore and understand patients’ experiences of disease and trial processes.

She is currently leading/working on a range of projects around using ...

Mrs Razia Meer-Baloch is responsible for the development and management of postgraduate modules and programmes, and professional development courses for staff involved in clinical trials at all levels. She oversees and plans the training to meet the needs of staff within the unit, in addition to identifying further opportunities to develop taught postgraduate programmes.

Samir Mehta has over 10 years’ experience in the design and analysis of clinical trials working as a Medical Statistician for the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU).

Samir's main portfolios within BCTU are trials related to Renal disease, surgical interventions and Atrial Fibrillation (AF).

Samir has also worked in trials related to Parkinson’s and cardiovascular disease, ...

Lee Middleton is Reader in Clinical Trials and Statistics Team Leader at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in the School of Health Sciences.

Lee’s main research interests are in the design, conduct and analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs). He is the lead methodologist and statistician on a portfolio of clinical trials in obstetrics, gynaecology and intraoperative ...

Catherine Moakes has over 8 years’ experience in the design and analysis of clinical trials working as a Medical Statistician for the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU).

Catherine's main portfolios within BCTU are trials related to obstetrics and gynaecology with a special interest in pre-term birth.

Catherine has also worked in trials related to Respiratory, Gastroenterology and ...

Hamideh conducts research in behavioural economics using experimental methods. Her research focuses on social preferences and decisions made in the presence of a moral wiggle room. She joined the Centre for Economics of Obesity in 2021, where she is involved in research targeting the determinants of obesity across the retail workstream. With this project she explores how interventions can modify ...

El is a Qualitative Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research. El’s research focuses on experiences of, and access to, healthcare for people from seldom heard and marginalised populations. She has a particular focus on using qualitative research methods to answer sensitive or challenging questions.

El is currently the lead research fellow on the multi methods, ...

Mark Monahan is a Lecturer in the Health Economics Unit. He primarily works on trial-based and model-based economic evaluations in different clinical areas. His research interests relate to decision modelling, health state valuation, and capacity constraints.

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Dr Moore specialises in directing multidisciplinary teams of researchers undertaking systematic reviews, health technology assessments and associated research. He is co-Director of the MSc/Diploma/Certificate in Health Research Methods and a curriculum advisor and previous deputy director of the MSc/Diploma/Certificate in Public Health at the University of Birmingham. He leads a post-graduate ...

Sarah is the Project Manager on the CONNECT Study.  The overall aim of the project is to evaluate the impact of remote Sexual and Reproductive Health Services (SRHS) consultations on health inequalities. You can find out more about the project here.

Katie’s research aims to improve the care for women with multiple pregnancies, fetal anomalies, growth restriction, reducing infection in maternity and prevention of preterm birth, employing prognostic and diagnostic research, modelling, systematic reviews and trials. As Head of Department for Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, she is responsible for leading, developing and ...

Breanna Morrison is a Research Fellow in the the Department of Applied Health Sciences. Breanna has an MS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and a PhD in Educational Statistics and Research Methods.

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After Dion received his degree in Medicine from Bristol University in 1985, he took up an honorary consultant appointment at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust in 1996 and was appointed Professor of Surgery in 2006. In 2015, he became Barling Chair of Surgery. He is also Surgery Section Head at the Department of Cancer and Genomics.

Dion was appointed Officer of the Order ...

Dr. Marie Murphy is Research Fellow and Research Coordinator for the PHRESH Public Health Intervention Rapid Studies Team (PHIRST). Marie’s research interests are centred around improving child and adolescent nutrition and addressing dietary inequalities and food insecurity through public health policy and intervention. Marie has led on studies evaluating school food policy in secondary ...

Walter-Rodney Nagumo joined Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in January 2023 as Quality Assurance Manager.

He is responsible for ensuring best practices within the unit, identifying risks and mitigation strategies, enhancing local Standard Operating Procedures, interpreting regulatory and audit requirements and providing local guidance, training and support for clinical researchers and ...

Anusha is a Clinical Data Manager deeply committed to revolutionising healthcare through innovative therapies.  Throughout her journey of three years in clinical research, Anusha has manged the trial in trial design, data analysis, and regulatory compliance aspects. With a solid foundation in clinical trials earned through her Master of Science degree from the University of Birmingham, ...

Michael Newnham is an Associate Professor and Consultant in Respiratory Medicine.

Michael’s research interests are predominately focused on pulmonary vascular diseases including pulmonary embolism and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. He has experience in research methods that include genomics, big data, biostatistics, clinical research trials and risk prediction ...

Krish is the Joint-Director for the Centre for Health Data Science and Deputy Director for the Department of Applied Health Sciences at University of Birmingham.

Krish is passionate to support junior staff, particularly from under-represented backgrounds to develop into self-sustaining leaders. His contribution was recognised and highlighted in BMJ as a role model. He has made significant ...

Aurore is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Global Health Research Unit. Aurore is currently working on UK NIHR RIGHT project (NIHR203062) Rwanda912: Use of an innovative electronic communications platform to improve pre-hospital transport of injured people in Rwanda.

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Peace is a Data Manager at the Birmingham Clinical trials unit; she currently manages research data for the LOCI trial.  

Peace’s approach is detail-oriented and analytical, aimed at enhancing data quality and supporting meaningful research outcomes.

Laura Noszlopy is a Research Fellow on the Perinatal Culture and Leadership Programme (PCLP) Evaluation, a project based in the School of Health Sciences. The PCLP Evaluation is using qualitative and ethnographic research methods to explore how an NHS England intervention has impacted leadership and working culture in maternity and neonatal units across the country.

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Elaine O’Connell Francischetto is a PhD student at the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Lucy Oakey is a Programme Manager for PHRESH, which is one of nine leading academic centres with excellence in applied public health research, which make up the NIHR School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR).

The PHRESH Consortium includes researchers from the Universities of Birmingham, Warwick and Keele. It will address important public health challenges to improve the health and ...

Maria Lisa is an Honorary Research Fellow in Global Health. Maria Lisa has been interested in global health before starting medical school in 2007 and spent her training in several different countries; Brazil, Australia and Malawi in addition to Norway.

She has a particular interest in reproductive health and holds a PhD on post abortion care from Malawi. Maria Lisa has recently started as a ...

Chidubem is a Research Fellow at the Health Economics Unit, University of Birmingham. 

She is an enthusiastic researcher and is interested in outcome valuations and costing particularly in the areas of maternal, child and sexual health.  

She recently completed an economic evaluation alongside the PRISM trial,  which is funded solely by NIHR-HTA (UK is a ...

John is evaluating the programme cost, and cost-effectiveness of cancer Rapid Diagnostic Centres (RDCs) across the West Midlands area. 

This project aims to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of RDC programmes dedicated to cancer diagnosis in patients presenting with vague/non-specific symptoms.

 The project will also compare process efficiency and patient experience across the different ...

Kelvin is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Dr Adeola Onasanya is a research fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research. She has a background in medicine, health economics, health policy and systemic design. She is interested in working on health systems and medical products (including medical devices, software applications, and technologies) design, implementation and evaluation.

She has recently worked on projects evaluating ...

Dr Adeola Onasanya is a research fellow in  the Deprtment of Applied Health Sciences. She has a background in medicine, health economics, health policy and systemic design.
Adeola is interested in working on health systems and medical products (including medical devices, software applications, and technologies) design, implementation and evaluation.
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Dr Raymond Oppong is an Associate Professor in Health Economics at the Health Economics Unit, University of Birmingham. 

He is the Programme Lead for the MSc in Health Economics and Health Policy and MSc in Health Economics and Econometrics.

Raymond's work spans a range of vital areas within health economics. His main interests include economic evaluations, particularly in the context ...

Bisola is a research fellow currently working at the Centre of Economics of Obesity in the Health Economics Unit on an ESRC funded project looking to evaluate the cost-benefit analysis of food systems interventions that improves access to healthy, sustainable and equitable diet in the United Kingdom.

Charlotte is a research fellow in the Health Economics Unit. She is currently working on the CONNECT project as qualitative researcher conducting in-depth interviews on the role of remote consultations in Sexual and Reproductive health services in the UK.

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Miranda’s research mainly focuses on the health of children and adolescents. She undertakes research in the areas of the epidemiology, prevention and management of overweight and obesity in children, school food provision and environments, and adolescent nutrition, mental wellbeing and physical activity. Her research seeks to improve health at an early stage of the life course to reduce ...

Helen is an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer and GP working in the child, maternity and lifestyle research group. Her work is focussed on weight management and obesity. She primarily works on clinical trials investigating new weight management interventions.  

She has also published a systematic review on the clinical effectiveness of very low energy diets. She led the development of a ...

Jayne is Professor of Policy and Public Health in the Institute of Applied Health Research. She holds an honorary consultant contract with Public Health England. 

Jayne’s research focuses on the assessment and evaluation of the health impacts of national policy initiatives. Her present main focus of enquiry is on the impact of policies directed at changing the recruitment, ...

Professor Devin Peipert’s research focuses on use of patient reported outcomes in drug development and to optimise treatment decision-making.

Devin has been appointed as a 125^th Anniversary Chair at the University of Birmingham, which recognises global talent with an outstanding record of research excellence. 

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Dr Rosie Pendrous is a Research Fellow specialising in mixed methods eating disorders and suicide research. She currently works on the MRC-funded “Rethinking Eating Disorders through Anthropology” project. Rosie is interested in employing mixed methods to explore mental health, focusing on risk and protective factors for suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders. She has a background ...

Sam Perry is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Unit. He is currently working on various projects in mental health and women’s health.

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Thomas Pinkney received his Medical Degree from the University of Birmingham in 2000. He was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Surgery in 2012 and awarded an honorary consultant appointment at the University Hospitals Birmingham at the same time.  In 2019 he was appointed as George Drexler and Royal College of Surgeons Chair of Surgical Trials at the University of Birmingham

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Emma comes from a mathematical background and chose to apply her mathematical skills to solving medical problems rooted in statistics. She is based in the Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivor Studies and is working on several projects simultaneously.

Irina joined the Health Economics Unit and the Centre for Economics of Obesity led by Professor Emma Frew in 2021.  Irina’s research interests are in the field of economics of mental health and obesity, and the use of health economics methods to capture the complexity of public health interventions.

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Mr Popplewell has been recently appointed as Clinical Lecturer in Vascular Surgery at the University of Birmingham. He works clinically at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire. Mr Popplewell's keen interest is in limb ischaemia, peripheral arterial disease and interventions for patients with infrapopliteal arterial disease.

 

Malcolm Price is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Modelling (BESTEAM), and Health Informatics research groups in the Institute of Applied Health Research.  He is also a member of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Global Women’s Health.

Malcolm trained as a medical statistician and has extensive ...

Ruth Pritchett is a Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Health Sciences. Ruth is experienced in the fields of behavioural medicine and public health and has particular interests in maternal health and cardiovascular research. Ruth has experience in a range of research methodologies including randomised controlled trials, observational studies, analysis of national datasets, systematic ...

Anita Pye works predominantly in respiratory research and Phase 1 to 3 clinical trials looking at new treatments for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She also has considerable experience of assessment of bacteria in chronic lung disease.

 

Yibei Qu is a research fellow in the Health Economics Unit. She is currently working on the WISE project led by Professor Hareth Al-Janabi, which aims to study how schools and workplaces invest resources in mental health and wellbeing.

Laura Quinn is a Medical Statistician working in the Institute of Applied Health Research. She works part-time on a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship in the Test and Prediction Group and part-time as a Research Fellow in the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West Midlands.

Since joining the University in 2016, Laura has worked on a range of projects with collaborators both within the ...

Dr Kiran Rai is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research, involved with COPE-West Midlands; an MRC-funded project, investigating the contribution of occupational exposures to risk of COVID-19 in three large Trusts within the West Midlands.

Kiran is also the research fellow for eTHOS (Enhancing the Health of NHS Staff); an NIHR HS&DR funded project, ...

Karen Randall currently studies cases of medical negligence from various sources, including reported cases from coroners’ court proceedings, which have been publicised in newspapers and published clinical articles. Her key areas of focus include: Care of the Elderly & Insane, Human Experimentation, Scandals involving Medical Negligence, Obstetrics and Surgery & Anaesthesia.

Professor Jonathan Reinarz is the Director of The History of Medicine Unit. He is Professor of the History of Medicine.

Jonathan has published extensively on the history of hospitals and medical education, including a history of the Birmingham teaching hospitals (2009), the history of the senses, especially smell, and the history of accidents, including burns and scalds. Most recently has led an ...

Ameeta is a research fellow working in the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research and the NIHR ARC (National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Centre) West Midlands. 

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Raoul Reulen is a Senior Lecturer & NIHR Fellow at the Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivor Studies.

Raoul’s primary research interest is cancer survivorship, particularly long-term survival after childhood cancer. Raoul has co-authored over 25 publications. He has taught undergraduate and post-graduate courses in Epidemiology, cancer and medical statistics since 2005. His current ...

Richard Riley is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Birmingham, leading a team of statisticians undertaking applied and methodology research for healthcare, especially in regard to prognosis, prediction models, and evidence synthesis.

Richard is Chief Statistics Editor for the BMJ and BMJ Medicine, a co-convenor of the Cochrane Prognosis Methods Group, Deputy Chair of the MRC-NIHR ...

Dr Alistair Ritch is a former Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine at City Hospital, Birmingham, Senior Clinical Lecturer at University of Birmingham and Honorary Secretary of the British Geriatrics Society.

Tracy Roberts is the Head of the School of Health Sciences. Tracy is Professor of Health Economics and was Director of the Institute for Applied Health research for 12 months prior to the new college reorganisation. 

Tracy joined the  University of Birmingham in January 1998 as a Lecturer in Health Economics, having previously worked in health economics research at the University of ...

Thomas Rose works for large multi-disciplinary and small specialist engineering functions in the manufacturing and service industries. His clients include multinationals; projects include total manufacturing facility electrical, electronic, and software control systems, and management systems. Establishing from the start:

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Aleph is a postgraduate researcher working on venereal disease and sexual health in twentieth century Anglo-Jewish history. This project is part of Birmingham’s Histories of Sexual Health in Britain, 1918–1980 and is funded by Midlands4Cities as a collaborative project involving the University of Birmingham, the University of Warwick, and Barts Health Archives.

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Natalie Rowland (née Ives) is a Reader in Clinical Trials. She is the Director of Statistics & Research Strategy, and a member of the Senior Management Team at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in the Institute of Applied Health Research. 

Natalie is interested in the design, conduct and analysis of large scale late phase randomised controlled clinical ...

Gavin is a Research Fellow specialising in observational studies in healthcare. He is particularly interested in linkage studies, secondary care service utilisation, cohort studies and the use of spatial data in health research.  He also works as a front-line advisor in the NIHR-funded Research Support Service Hub delivered by University of Birmingham and Partners, where he provides ...

Rebecca Russell is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Public Health. She teaches on a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, as well as supporting the local Public Health registrar training scheme.

Rebecca previously trained in both Psychology and Psychiatry, before entering Public Health training, and she retains a strong interest in Public Mental Health alongside her medical ...

Dr Sainsbury is a consultant diabetologist in Glasgow. He has a longstanding interest in data analysis and coding, leading to a number of projects in the areas of mathematical modelling and machine learning.

He is currently an NHS Research Scotland Senior Fellow, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.

Jo Sartori is an experienced programme manager with a speciality in research development and international stakeholder relations and engagement. In recent years Jo has developed and managed a large portfolio of global health projects worth over £30million such as the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Improving Health in Slums. Jo works with Professor Richard Lilford, CBEand other ...

Katie Scandrett is a statistician based in the Test Evaluation Research Group within the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Her research interest is primarily in diagnostic test evaluation.

Fiona is a sociologist with expertise in qualitative research methodologies she is leading on WP1 of the Quantifying, Understanding and Enhancing Relational Continuity of Care (QUERCC) study.

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Lena is a joint-PhD candidate in Health Economics at the University of Birmingham and Maastricht University. She started her research project with the Health Services Research Department in Maastricht in February 2019 and will be joining the Health Economics Unit at UoB in September 2019. 

Dr Karen Shaw is an experienced Research Fellow and Research Psychologist in the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research where she manages Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) for the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Precision Cellular Therapeutics. This is a collaboration with the University of Oxford that seeks to develop new kinds of cell therapies for blood ...

Mark's role as an Honoray Research Associate primarily consists of supporting the British Heart Foundation with the production of key statistics and analysis. The British Heart Foundation is the nation's heart charity and the largest independent funder of cardiovascular research. They collect the most comprehensive statistics on the effects, prevention, treatment, costs and causes of ...

After a number of years as a Market Researcher in the private sector, Jenny has spent the last ten years in public sector research roles, latterly as a public health research specialist. Her current role as Knowledge Exchange Facilitator combines working in a local authority public health information team, with researching epidemiology and health geography in the Institute of Applied Health ...

Diane is studying for a Doctorate in Applied Health Research with the College of Medical and Dental Sciences. Looking at the social implications of long-term chronic illness, her PhD – using qualitative research methods – investigates how people with Malygic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome build and maintain social and community networks and relationships, both online and ...

Dr Shukla is a Clinical Research Specialty Lead (CRSL) for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) with experience of research delivery within Primary Care settings including General Practice.  

Dr Shukla is a GP Partner at Eve Hill Medical Practice, in Dudley, a CQC ‘outstanding’ rated practice. 

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Dr Ajit Singh is an environmental scientist with particular interest in air pollution measurements and management. His research and associated activities are focused on improving air quality and related knowledge in both developed and developing countries through interdisciplinary and life-cycle approaches by better understanding the climate, health and socio-economic consequences of poor air ...

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Alice Sitch is a Senior Lecturer working in the Institute of Applied Health Research and a member of the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation (BESaTE) research group.

Since joining the University in 2009, Alice has become involved in many exciting projects allowing her to collaborate with others in the BESaTE team and many other researchers at the University of Birmingham and ...

Magdalena Skrybant is Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Lead for NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West Midlands (ARC WM).  Magdalena’s role ensures that there is meaningful involvement with patients and the public in applied health research.

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Anita Slade PhD is the ITM Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes(PRO) research at the University of Birmingham. She is experienced in evaluating and developing patient reported outcome measures in a range of clinical settings.   She is experienced in using Rasch analysis as a tool for evaluating health outcomes and educational assessments.   She ...

Gemma is a Trials Management Team Leader at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU).

Harriet Smailes is a Research Associate on the NIHR-funded PROSPER study– the first national study to focus on the role and funding of specialist voluntary sector sexual violence services. After having joined the team in December 2021, Harriet supports the data collection and analysis for this mixed-methods research. This includes interviews with practitioners, commissioners and ...

Leonard Smith is a social historian with a special interest in the history of psychiatry and mental health institutions from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. His research has focussed primarily on England and the former British West Indian colonies. It encompasses the development of both private madhouses and public lunatic asylums, those who established and managed them, and the ...

Dr Kym Snell is an Associate Professor in Biostatistics and works within the Institute of Applied Health Research. She is a member of the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and prediction Modelling (BESTEAM) research group.

Kym’s interest is in applied and methodology research relating to risk prediction models. This includes development, validation and updating of risk ...

Tom Sorahan has published more than 60 first-authored peer-reviewed papers on the identification and quantification of occupational cancer risks.

Dr Matthew South is a Research Software Engineer with twenty plus years of experience developing and supporting web applications for clinical and scientific research.  He is also the technical director of Openclinical CIC, a community interest company that supports the development of the Open PROforma System (OPS) for developing, sharing and deploying Clinical Decision Support Systems. In ...

Tommer Spence is a Research Fellow on the Perinatal Culture and Leadership Programme (PCLP) Evaluation, a project linked to the Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West Midlands maternity theme. The PCLP Evaluation is using ethnographic methods to explore how an NHS England intervention has impacted leadership and working culture in maternity and neonatal units across the country.

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Andrew Stevens is Professor emeritus of Public Health and former Head of Department and Division (of Primary Care, Public and Occupational Health).

Andrew is interested in Health Services Research including health care needs assessment, health technology assessment and horizon scanning. He has edited the 4 volume Health Care Needs Assessment Series, and the Advanced Handbook of Methods in ...

Anuradhaa is a MSc Health Research Methods graduate from the University of Birmingham. She works as a Research Fellow (Health Informatics) at the Institute of Applied Health Research. 

She conducts routinely collected primary care data based epidemiological studies by designing and performing data analysis from datasets extracted using the automated system for epidemiological studies (ACES) ...

Fatima is currently working on MEDAL trial as a data manager within primary care clinical trials team.

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Dana Sumilo is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.

Her main research interests are in the areas of health services research, policy evaluation, maternal and child health and infectious disease epidemiology.

She is the Chief Investigator of the NIHR HTA funded project (16/150/01) “Long term impact of giving ...

Dr. Sun studied his BSc in mathematics at Shanxi university and MSc in Applied Mathematics at Sichuan University and had been working as a lecturer in higher education in China for about 10 years.

He then moved to the UK, completing a PhD in Pure Mathematics at the University of Birmingham in 2003 and an MSc in Medical Statistics at the University of Leicester in 2008.

Dr Muslim Abbas Syed is a public health specialist, health economist and medical educationist.

Professor Yemisi Takwoingi is based in the Test Evaluation Research Group within the Department of Applied Health Sciences.  

Yemisi collaborates on methodological and applied health research projects. Her research interest is primarily in diagnostic test evaluation and systematic review methodology, especially meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy studies. 

Yemisi has ...

Jessica Tanner is a Research Fellow for the PHRESH Public Health Intervention Rapid Studies Team (PHIRST). PHRESH is one of the academic centres within the NIHR School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR), working in partnership with local authorities to evaluate public health interventions.

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Clare J Taylor is Professor of General Practice at the University of Birmingham and a GP in the NHS. Her research focuses on earlier diagnosis and improving prognosis for people with heart failure in primary care using big GP datasets.

Professor Taylor has received grant and fellowship funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research, Wellcome Trust, and British Heart Foundation. ...

Beck is a Clinical Senior Lecturer working on the Maternity Theme of the NIHR West Midlands ARC programme. She is also an Honorary Consultant at Public Health England. Her research focuses on evaluating maternity services and policy, working in collaboration with women and staff. As a public health doctor she is trained to think at population and system-level. She has skills in qualitative and ...

Sarah Tearne is a  Trials Management Team Leader within the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit at the University of Birmingham. She has 10 years of experience working in clinical trials at multiple universities. Her area of expertise is primary care research however she works across a number of different research areas including, mental health, public health and neuroscience. Within the ...

Thayakaran (Thaya) is a Research Fellow in Health Informatics (Statistics) in the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham.

His research focuses on propensity score matching for observational data and on survival analysis using extended Cox proportional hazard model with time varying covariates. Also his research interests have focused recently on methods for dealing with ...

Professor Neil Thomas is the Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) National Collaborative providing strategy and oversight to the NIHR Research Support Service. He is also the Director of the NIHR Research Support Service that provides expert research design, methodological support, advice, and collaboration to all researchers in England throughout the pre- and ...

Dean is a Chartered Psychologist and NIHR Advanced Fellow in Mental Health and Mixed Methods Research at the Department of Applied Health. He is an advisor for NIHR Research Support Service (RSS), offering consultation with health and social care researchers on study design and delivery, patient and public involvement, and training and career opportunities.

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Jacqueline is a Research Fellow in methods relating to cluster randomised trials.  The role is funded by MRC-NIHR Develop Guidance for Better Research Methods grant for Developing guidance for the design and conduct of cluster randomised trials. 

Jacqueline realised her flare for evidence-based practice, clinical trials and statistical concepts after her Master’s in ...

Rebecca is currently working as a Data Manager on the E-MOTIVE trial (Early detection and treatment of post-partum hemorrhage using the MOTIVE bundle: a World Health Organization cluster randomized trial with health economic analysis (the E-MOTIVE study). $10,915,588 USD. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 2019-2022)

Barbara Torlinska is a Research Fellow within the NIHR funded Research Design Service (RDS) West Midlands, Birmingham Hub.

As a general methodologist, Barbara supports healthcare professionals and researchers in the development of research funding proposals to national peer-reviewed funding programmes. She also conducts her own research within the Institute of Applied Health Research of the ...

Alice’s research interests are predominantly in clinical aspects of alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), fields in which she has published widely. Optimising monitoring and therapy for AATD is a major focus for her group. They are also studying aspects of care delivery for COPD, particularly those that span from secondary into primary care ...

Natalie Tyldesley-Marshall is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research.

She is an experienced qualitative researcher, having undertaken mixed methods research in the areas of health and education.

Susan is a registered social worker.  Since joining academia, she has worked and developed public health research expertise especially in women’s health.  Susan has addressed issues around reproductive health, childbirth, violence against women and girls including domestic abuse and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C).

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Anita is Personal Assistant and Research Administrator to Professor Melanie Calvert and the Centre for Patient Reported Outcome Research within the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham.

Gareth is an NHS consultant in occupational respiratory medicine and interstitial lung diseases in Birmingham, and leads the supra-regional NHS occupational lung disease service.  His research broadly concerns the aetiology and identification of occupational airways diseases and pneumoconiosis.

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Jingya is a research fellow working at the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Xin Wang is a Project Engagement Officer within a Chinese project unit in the Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham.

Xin’s role involves relationship development with partner institutes, communication, and administrative support. Xin coordinates activities and ensures project success through effective teamwork.

Derek Ward is a Reader in Public Health and Medical Education and holds an honorary contract with Public Health England. He teaches on a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and he has a particular interest in medical education, selection and assessment.

Currently, Derek leads the popular Master’s in Public Health (MPH) programme, co-leads the intercalated Public Health ...

Jane has a specialist interest in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), both in supporting patients and the healthcare staff that care for this population. Jane has worked within respiratory medicine since 2000 in a variety of clinical and teaching roles across primary, community, secondary, tertiary, health care settings. Jane maintains clinical practice, whilst also ...

Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Applied Health Research working on applied statistics in public health and healthcare. Dr Watson's current research looks at methods of evaluation in low resource settings including cluster trial and survey methodology particularly using Bayesian methods. Current grants/projects include evaluation of water and sanitation interventions in the ...

Sara is a registered midwife specialising in childbirth related perinea trauma with a special interest in obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASI).  As well as working at Birmingham Women's & Children's Hospital as Specialist Midwife – Perineal Trauma, Sara champions midwife-led translational research and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives in 2016 in ...

Katinka is an Anthropologist with interests in Medical Anthropology, Political Anthropology, the Anthropology of Development and Social Change and political ecology. Her research has focused particularly on Latin America and, more recently, western Africa.

She currently works as a Qualitative Research Fellow on the MaaCiwara Project,a large-scale trial of an intervention focusing on the ...

Indrakantha is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Global Health unit at IAHR. He is a public health physician and is currently working on Trauma Registry related studies in several countries.

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Rebecca is a medical statistician based in the BESTEAM research group. Her main research interests lie in prognosis and prediction, with a focus on improving the reporting and development of prediction modelling. Rebecca has also been involved in many applied health research projects, mainly using large data from electronic health records. 

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Adrian Wilcockson has been working within the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) programming team since 2003. 
This team creates and supports bespoke database applications for trials run by the unit. These are typically SQL Server/ASP.NET systems for large, multi-centre/international phase 3 studies.

Dr Stuart Wildman is a former lecturer in the School of Nursing within the University and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Social Studies in Medicine group.

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Professor Andrew N. Williams PhD FRHistS is a consultant community paediatrician, medical historian, archive curator, playwright and film maker. He was trained in paediatrics/ paediatric neurodisability in Birmingham under Dr Geoff Debelle, Dr William Whitehouse and the late Dr S.H. Green.

• Since 1999, Andrew has had an honorary affiliation with the History of Medicine Unit, firstly with ...

Eleanor Williams is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Unit. She is currently working on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded E-MOTIVE project which aims to evaluate the implementation of early detection and the use of the WHO MOTIVE 'first response' treatment bundle for postpartum haemorrhage.

Brian Willis is an MRC Clinician Scientist in Primary Care.

This divides his time between working in clinical practice as a GP and being a research investigator where his principal interest is in diagnostic test research.

Amie Wilson is a Research Fellow in Global Maternal Health and Midwife. Amie has real passion for improving care for women in resource limited settings. Amie’s PhD examined interventions to reduce maternal death in low-and-middle income countries (supervised by Professor Arri Coomarasamy and Professor Christine MacArthur). Amie’s work in evidence synthesis has achieved publications in ...

David is the I.T. Manager for the Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivor Studies (CCCSS). He started his career in Oxford in 1982 and moved to the University of Birmingham in 1998. He has been an author on over 20 peer-reviewed publications in the field of childhood cancer epidemiology.

Dr Annette Wood is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Institute of Applied Health Research. Her substantive employer is Public Health Englandwhere she is a Consultant in Public Health. She works with NHS England/Improvement both locally in the Midlands and nationally where she provides public health advice for Specialised Services Commissioning. She has an interest in training in ...

Katherine Woolley is a Global Challenges Doctoral Researcher, in the Institute of Applied Research, taking a mixed-methods approach to researching effective health interventions for household air pollution in urban Rwanda. She holds a Masters of Public Health (2018) and a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Geoscience (2017) both from Cardiff University

Katherine’s research interest revolve around ...

Rebecca Woolley is a Senior Statistician within Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit with experience in clinical trials, from the design at grant application stage, through to the final analysis.

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Rebecca is an Honorary Research Fellow for the four-year AHRC-funded project, ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injuries and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’.

Rebecca is a historian of medicine and of Quakers. Her research and publications centre on the history of psychiatry, mental health, neurosurgery, neurodiversity, and First World War medicine and disability. She has worked with ...

Dr Fangzhou Xu is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research. He is currently working on UoB-Guangzhou collaborative research projects focusing on healthy aging and clinical trials led by Professor KK Cheng.

Dawit is a Research Fellow in the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Centre (CERC) at The University of Western Australia and an Honorary Research Fellow with the Centre for Health Data Science at University of Birmingham.

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