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
Research Fellow
Hareth has a background in analysing economic issues in healthcare policy. Since 2005, he has been engaged in research to develop new techniques to capture the broader outcomes of healthcare interventions. He also teaches health economics to undergraduate and postgraduate students
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 8483
Email h.aljanabi@bham.ac.uk
Clinical Tutor
Nursing and Physiotherapy
Christina Anderson has responsibility for the physiotherapy clinical team, ensuring that there are appropriate practice placements for students to support their academic programmes. This involves training clinical staff both on and off-site, and ensuring appropriate guidelines and protocols are in place and maintained. As part of this role she visits placement areas in a number of Trusts ...
Telephone +44 (0) 121 415 8613
Email c.b.anderson@bham.ac.uk
Research Fellow in Health Economics
Health Economics
Lazaros Andronis is a Research Fellow and NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow in Health Economics, based in the Health Economics Unit of the College of Medical and Dental Sciences.
Lazaros has worked on applied economic evaluations, exploring the cost-effectiveness of interventions in areas such as cancer and leukaemia, orthopaedics and cardiovascular disease, as well as ...
Telephone +44 (0) 121 414 3197
Email l.andronis@bham.ac.uk
Commissioning Advisor to the WMCSU
Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Daphne Austin is an Associate with the West Midlands Commissioning Support Unit. She has lead responsibility for the WMCSU Training for Commissioners and the Commissioning Policy Programmes.
Her areas of special interests are priority setting, public funding of trials, the development of population medicine/health skills beyond public health practitioners and genetics commissioning.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 4454
Email d.austin@bham.ac.uk
Professor of behavioural medicine
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Paul Aveyard is a public health physician and GP working in the field of behavioural medicine. Most of his hundred or so publications concern tobacco control, particularly smoking cessation and harm reduction. He leads the behavioural medicine team which has interests in tobacco control, obesity management, and promotion of physical activity.
He is a regular ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 8529
Email p.n.aveyard@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Environmental & Respiratory Medicine
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Jon Ayres is Professor of Environmental & Respiratory Medicine and Head of the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
He has published over 300 research papers, reviews and editorials in scientific journals as well as a number of reports for various government departments. These have been in the fields of asthma treatment and management and the influence of ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 6671
Email j.g.ayres@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