Dr Ameeta Retzer BA, MA, DPhil

Ameeta Retzer

Health Services Management Centre
Associate Professor

Contact details

Email
a.retzer@bham.ac.uk
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Address
School of Social Policy, HSMC
Park House
40 Edgbaston Park Road
Birmingham
B15 2RT

Ameeta is a mixed methods researcher with expertise in outcome methodology, applied health, health inequalities and public health, and research equity. She is based at the Birmingham Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science, leading the Methods and Policy group.

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Qualifications

  • DPhil in Public Health, University of Oxford, 2015
  • MA in Human Rights, University College London, 2011
  • BA (Hons) in Politics, Queen Mary University of London, 2010

Biography

Ameeta has a background in social science and population health research, with particular focus on groups experiencing marginalisation.

Before joining the Department of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Birmingham in 2016, Ameeta worked at the University of Warwick on a Department for Education-funded project analysing serious case reviews and child protection data. In Birmingham, as a member of the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research, Ameeta developed core outcome sets and patient-reported outcome methodology for use across the translational pathway, from early phase trials to routine practice. Ameeta joined the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration West Midlands (ARC WM) public health theme in 2021, undertaking responsive intervention evaluations.  

Teaching

  • MBChB
  • MPH
  • MSc Clinical Trials

Postgraduate supervision

Ameeta is interested in supervising doctoral research relating to applied health, outcomes research, population health, and equitable health research.

Research

Funded by the NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, Ameeta led the development of a toolkit for capturing a representative and equitable sample in health research. Subsequently, Ameeta leads a research programme exploring use of the toolkit in a range of settings.

Ameeta serves as Equity, Diversity and Inclusion lead in a range of NIHR and charitably-funded regional and national research infrastructures, leading equitable research method development, inclusive research activities, health inequality evaluation and public health research.

She maintains a research strand focusing on patient-reported outcome implementation, methodology and outcome standardisation in research and routine practice, with particular focus on oncology and brain tumours.

Other activities

  • Institute for Applied Health Research (IAHR) equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in Research working group member
  • IAHR EDI Deputy Lead
  • MDS Athena SWAN self-assessment team member

Publications

Recent publications

Aiyegbusi, O.L., di Ruffano, L.F., Retzer, A. et al. Outcome selection for tissue-agnostic drug trials for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: a systematic review of core outcome sets and regulatory guidance. Trials 23, 42 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06000-w

Retzer A, Calvert M, Ahmed K, Keeley T, Armes J, Brown JM, Calman L, Gavin A, Glaser AW, Greenfield DM, Lanceley A, Taylor RM, Velikova G, Brundage M, Efficace F, Mercieca-Bebber R, King MT, Kyte D. International perspectives on suboptimal patient-reported outcome trial design and reporting in cancer clinical trials: A qualitative study. Cancer Med. 2021 Aug;10(16):5475-5487. doi: 10.1002/cam4.4111. Epub 2021 Jul 5. PMID: 34219395; PMCID: PMC8366078.

Calvert M, King M, Mercieca-Bebber R, et al SPIRIT-PRO Extension explanation and elaboration: guidelines for inclusion of patient-reported outcomes in protocols of clinical trials BMJ Open 2021;11:e045105. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045105

Slade, A.L., Retzer, A., Ahmed, K. et al. Systematic review of the use of translated patient-reported outcome measures in cancer trials. Trials 22, 306 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05255-z

Retzer A, Aiyegbusi OL, Rowe A, Newsome PN, Douglas-Pugh J, Khan S, Mittal S, Wilson R, O'Connor D, Campbell L, Mitchell SA, Calvert M. The value of patient-reported outcomes in early-phase clinical trials. Nat Med. 2022 Jan;28(1):18-20. doi: 10.1038/s41591-021-01648-4. PMID: 35039659.

Cruz Rivera S, Stephens R, Mercieca-Bebber R, Retzer A, Rutherford C, Price G, Slade A, Aiyegbusi OL, Edge P, Roberts L, Gosden L, Verdi R, Wilson R, Calvert M. 'Give Us The Tools!': development of knowledge transfer tools to support the involvement of patient partners in the development of clinical trial protocols with patient-reported outcomes (PROs), in accordance with SPIRIT-PRO Extension. BMJ Open. 2021 Jun 30;11(6):e046450. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046450. PMID: 34193492; PMCID: PMC8246365.

McMullan C, Retzer A, Slade A, Kyte D, Jones L, Belli A, Calvert M, Turner GM. Care providers' and patients' attitudes toward using electronic-patient reported outcomes to support patients with traumatic brain injury: a qualitative study (PRiORiTy). Brain Inj. 2020 May 11;34(6):723-731. doi: 10.1080/02699052.2020.1740944. Epub 2020 Mar 29. PMID: 32223338.

Retzer A, Sayers R, Pinfold V, Gibson J, Keeley T, Taylor G, Plappert H, Gibbons B, Huxley P, Mathers J, Birchwood M, Calvert M. Development of a core outcome set for use in community-based bipolar trials-A qualitative study and modified Delphi. PLoS One. 2020 Oct 28;15(10):e0240518. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240518. PMID: 33112874; PMCID: PMC7592842.

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