
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
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

Analyst Programmer
Syed Ahmed is Analyst Programmer within an enthusiastic Programming Team that develops databases and management applications for the Primary Care Clinical Research and Trials Unit.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 5379
Email s.s.ahmed@bham.ac.uk

Research Assistant
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

Birmingham Fellow
Hareth is an economist with experience in health policy analysis and academic research. Since 2005, he has been involved in research to develop techniques to measure the benefits of healthcare interventions for economic evaluation. He teaches health economics to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 8483
Email h.aljanabi@bham.ac.uk

Lead Clinical Tutor in 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 across ...
Telephone +44 (0) 121 415 8613
Email c.b.anderson@bham.ac.uk
Lecturer in Health Economics
Lazaros Andronis is a Lecturer in Health Economics, based in the Health Economics Unit of the College of Medical and Dental Sciences.
In the past, Lazaros has undertaken research on economic evaluations, where he assessed the cost-effectiveness of interventions in areas such as cancer and leukaemia, orthopaedics and cardiovascular disease. In addition to applied research, Lazaros ...
Telephone +44 (0) 121 414 3197
Email l.andronis@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Environmental & Respiratory 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
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
Lecturer
Cara Bailey is a lecturer in nursing in the College of Medical and Dental Sciences.
Cara’s research maintains a broad interest in the care of people at the end of their lives beyond cancer in palliative and end of life studies and for those who work closely with the dying, the bereaved and the critically ill. She is primarily involved in research activity ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 3657
Email c.bailey.2@bham.ac.uk