
Senior Lecturer in Public Health & Epidemiology
Peymane Adab is a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Birmingham.
Peymané’s research interests are twofold, including behavioural epidemiology (specifically childhood obesity prevention) and chronic disease epidemiology (focusing on the epidemiology of COPD). She holds major grants in these areas from the National Institute of Health Research, and ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 3777
Email p.adab@bham.ac.uk

Director West Midlands Commissioning Support Unit and Senior Lecturer
Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Edwina Affie is Director of the West Midlands Commissioning Support Unit and a Senior Lecturer / Consultant in Public Health Medicine in the Department of Public Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics.
Her areas of special interest and expertise include cancer, healthcare commissioning, health intelligence and knowledge management.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 8394
Email e.affie@bham.ac.uk

Research Assistant
Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Behnoush is a Research Assistant on the WAVES study (West Midlands ActiVe lifestyle and healthy Eating in School children study).
Telephone +44 (0)121 415 8056
Email b.ahranjani@bham.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Ruth is a Research Fellow who is currently working on the BLISS Programme (Birmingham Lung Improvement Studies) and is responsible for the TargetCOPD study that is being run as part of the programme
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 5042
Email r.backman@bham.ac.uk

Information Specialist
Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Sue Bayliss is an information specialist who for the past 10 years has worked within the information support team in the Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Birmingham, developing search strategies to identify appropriate research literature for systematic reviews. These have included Cochrane reviews as well as many health technology assessment ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 7914
Email s.bayliss@bham.ac.uk

Project Manager
Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Louise Bentham is an experienced clinical research nurse and project manager with a background in clinical epidemiology, old age psychiatry, learning disability and group work.
Telephone +44 (0) 121 414 6805
Email l.m.bentham@bham.ac.uk

Research Associate (Horizon analyst)
Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Beth Boddice is a research associate (horizon analyst) at the NIHR Horizon Scanning Centre.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 9074
Email b.boddice@bham.ac.uk
Research Associate (Analyst)
Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Philip joined the NIHR Horizon Scanning Centre in August 2012 as a Research Associate (Horizon Analyst) and is a member of the pharmaceutical team. He graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2008 with an honours degree in Anatomy and Human Biology. Philip is also a qualified physiotherapist having completed his MSc in Physiotherapy at the University of Birmingham in 2011.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 6768
Email p.m.breen@bham.ac.uk

Research Fellow
Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Amanda Chapman is a research fellow in health economics, specialising in health technology assessment of medical devices in particular.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 7784
Email a.m.chapman@bham.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Yen-Fu Chen is a Research Fellow in Systematic Review and Quality Improvement. He joined the research team led by Professor Richard Lilford in 2010 and is currently working with the West Midlands Quality Institute on research related to quality improvement in health care.
Yen-Fu previously worked as a systematic reviewer in the West Midlands Health Technology Assessment ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 6095
Email y.chen.3@bham.ac.uk