After completing his Masters in Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham, UK, Ryan qualified as a pharmacist following his pre-registration (foundation) year at the University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust. Having cultivated an interest in public health, and with an aspiration to contribute to the research community’s efforts to address the most significant health inequities around the globe, he undertook his PhD in the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, between 2018-2022.
Working with The Global Health Network, Ryan explored how enabling knowledge transfer could strengthen medicines safety research and practice in low-resource settings. Building on this background, his scientific research interests grew to span multiple disciplines, including knowledge exchange / mobilisation, capacity building, priority-setting and methodology research, tackling health inequity, pharmacovigilance (medicines safety) and antimicrobial resistance. Having joined the University of Birmingham in 2024, his current research aims to encompass each of these themes and focus on strengthening pharmacy practice and research in settings where it is needed most.
Ryan has significant experience of collaboration with diverse health research teams from around the globe and has coordinated priority-setting research projects in collaboration with both the WHO and global health funding organisations. He currently coordinates Global Pharmacovigilance, an open-access online knowledge hub and community of practice, dedicated to enabling pharmacovigilance research and practice in any setting where it doesn’t currently happen. In addition, he is actively involved in the University of Birmingham Global Health Impact Hub.