Staff

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

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 Hareth Al-Janabi

Dr Hareth Al-Janabi

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

Miss Christina Anderson

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

Mr Lazaros Andronis

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

Dr Daphne Austin

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 Paul Aveyard

Professor Paul Aveyard

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 Jon Ayres OBE

Professor Jon Ayres OBE

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

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