About
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.
Qualifications
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Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
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MFPH
Faculty of Public Health Medicine 2005
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MPH
University of Birmingham 2000
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DipRCPath
Royal College of Pathologists 1995
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MB BS Medicine
University of London 1987
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BSc(Hons) Cell Biology & Biochemistry
Upper 2nd Class Honours 1982
University of York
Biography
After completing degrees in natural science and medicine, Edwina worked as a secondary care clinician for 10 years specialising in histopathology, before moving to the field of public health medicine in 1998.
Her public health career has included working for public health observatories, leading knowledge management services, leading health intelligence teams and commissioning healthcare. She has a special interest in cancer and has served on cancer network boards, cancer registry boards and chaired tumour boards. Before taking up her present position as Director of the West Midlands Commissioning Support Unit and Senior Clinical Lecturer in the School of Health & Population Sciences, she was Assistant Director of Public Health in a London PCT.
Teaching
Postgraduate supervision
Edwina is interested in supervising research students in the following areas:
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Cancer
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Healthcare Commissioning
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Health intelligence
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Knowledge management
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Evidence based professional education
Edwina supervises the postgraduate training of medical doctors and is an educational supervisor to registrars undertaking higher specialist training in public health.
Research
RESEARCH THEMES
Cancer, cancer screening, health care commissioning, health intelligence, evidence review.
RESEARCH ACTIVITY
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Evidence reviews and HTA
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Health needs assessment
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Commissioning policies
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Healthcare rationing
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Evaluating professional education
Other activities
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Board Member of West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit
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Board Member of West Midlands Public Health Observatory
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Member of Board of Trustees ‘Help on Your Doorstep’ (Charity)
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Member of Expert Working Party National Haemoglobinopathies Project
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West Midlands Bowel Cancer Screening Programme QARC Quality Assurance Team member
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Steering Group Member Commissioning Support Appraisal Service
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NICE Technology Appraisal Methods Guide review working party member
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Former board member of Thames Cancer Registry
Publications
Affie E, Boxall M, Grainger C, Russell M, Wallace L. (2002) Warwickshire Risk Management in Primary Care Project. Journal of Clinical Excellence. 4: Number 1 NICE Supplement
Chughtai SA. Crundewell MC. Cruickshank NR, Affie E. Armstrong S. Knowles MA. Takle LA. Kuo M. Khan N. Phillips SM. Neoptolemos JP. Morton DG. (1999) Two novel regions of interstitial deletion on chromosome 8p in colorectal cancer. Oncogene. 18 (3):657-65
Affie E.M. & Carey M.P. (1995) A case of progressive inflammatory meningeal fibrosis. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, 21, 454
Grobler SP. Hosie KB. Affie E. Thompson H. Keighley MR. (1993) Outcome of restorative proctocolectomy when the diagnosis is suggestive of Crohn’s disease. Gut. 34 (10):1384-8
Newrick PG. Affie E. Corrall RJ. (1990) Relationship between longevity and lifeline: a manual study of 100 patients. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 83 (8):499-501