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Dr Peymane Adab

Dr Peymane Adab

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

Dr Edwina Affie

Dr Edwina Affie

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

Dr Behnoush Ahranjani

Dr Behnoush Ahranjani

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

Dr Ruth Backman

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

Mrs Susan Bayliss

Mrs Susan Bayliss

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

Mrs Louise Bentham

Mrs Louise Bentham

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

Mrs Beth Boddice

Mrs Beth Boddice

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

Mr Philip Breen

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

Dr Amanda Chapman

Dr Amanda Chapman

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

Dr Yen-Fu Chen

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