Our people

Our team comprises researchers, statisticians and clinicians with a wealth of experience in their field.

Dr Nicola Adderley

Dr Nicola Adderley

Associate Professor of Health Informatics and Epidemiology
Deputy Lead for Birmingham BRC Data, Diagnostics and Decision Tools theme
Deputy IAHR Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead

Institute of Applied Health Research

Nicki Adderley is an Associate Professor of Health Informatics and Epidemiology. She co-leads the THINKINGroup, a multi-disciplinary group of researchers and clinicians who aim to use real world, routinely collected data to produce high quality research on epidemiology, clinical practice and health care utilisation relevant to patients and clinicians.

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 5643
Email
n.j.adderley@bham.ac.uk

Dr Mohammed Baragilly

Dr Mohammed Baragilly

Research Fellow
Honorary Research Fellow – Medical Statistics, Institute of Applied Health Research

Institute of Inflammation and Ageing

Mohammed Baragilly is a Research Fellow based at the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing and holds an Honorary Research Fellowship in medical statistics at the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham. Additionally, he serves as an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics, Insurance and Applied Statistics at Helwan University, Egypt.

With a ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3477
Email
m.h.h.baragilly@bham.ac.uk

Dr Joht Singh Chandan

Dr Joht Singh Chandan

Clinical Associate Professor in Public Health

Institute of Applied Health Research

Dr Chandan is a Clinical Associate Professor in Public Health at the University of Birmingham. His primary research focuses on identifying and addressing health inequalities, supported through novel data science approaches. He has expertise in population health data science, data linkage and medical education.

To date, Joht has spent considerable time working on designing and delivering a public ...

Email
j.s.chandan.1@bham.ac.uk

Dr Francesca Crowe

Dr Francesca Crowe

Lecturer in Epidemiology and Health Informatics

Institute of Applied Health Research

Francesca Crowe is an epidemiologist and health informatician with an interest in using health data to understand modifiable risk factors for common health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Francesca's other main area of interest is conducting data-enabled clinical trials in primary care that leverage health data collection and analysis to enhance the efficiency and ...

Telephone
+44 (0)7733450666
Email
f.crowe@bham.ac.uk

Mr Krishna Margadhamane Gokhale

Mr  Krishna Margadhamane Gokhale

Research Fellow (Health Informatics)

Institute of Applied Health Research

Krishna Gokhale is a computer scientist focused on building game changing technologies to automate the process of data extraction and analysis for routine epidemiological research and developing scalable solutions to securely and safely integrate various healthcare data sources across patient care pathway.

Krishna is the architect and the developer of DExtER (Data Extractor for Epidemiological Re ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3027
Email
k.m.gokhale@bham.ac.uk

Professor Tom Marshall

Professor Tom Marshall

Professor of Public Health and Primary Care

Institute of Applied Health Research

Tom Marshall is a Professor of Public Health and Primary Care. His main medical speciality is in Public Health Medicine but he also has trained in General Practice and has studied Health Economics.

Tom has over 70 peer reviewed publications to date, over 35 as first author and a significant number as sole author. His research publications cover a number of related areas.

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Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7832
Email
t.p.marshall@bham.ac.uk

Professor Krish Nirantharakumar

Professor Krish Nirantharakumar

Professor in Health Data Science and Public Health
Joint Director of the Centre for Health Data Science
Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine; Deputy Director IAHR

Institute of Applied Health Research

Krish is the Joint-Director for the Centre for Health Data Science and Deputy Director for the Institute of Applied Health Research at University of Birmingham.

Krish is passionate to support junior staff, particularly from under-represented backgrounds to develop into self-sustaining leaders. His contribution was recognised and highlighted in BMJ as a role model. He has made significant ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 8344
Email
k.nirantharan@bham.ac.uk

Dr Malcolm James Price

Dr Malcolm James Price

Associate Professor of Biostatistics

Institute of Applied Health Research

Malcolm Price is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Modelling (BESTEAM), and Health Informatics research groups in the Institute of Applied Health Research.  He is also a member of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Global Women’s Health.

Malcolm trained as a medical statistician and has extensive ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 2530
Email
m.price.2@bham.ac.uk

Mr Gavin Rudge

Mr Gavin Rudge

Research Fellow

Institute of Applied Health Research

Gavin is a Research Fellow specialising in observational studies in healthcare. He is particularly interested in linkage studies, secondary care service utilisation, cohort studies and the use of spatial data in health research.  He also works as a front-line advisor in the West Midlands Research Design Service, where he provides specialist advice to clinicians and academics who are ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7852
Email
g.rudge@bham.ac.uk

Dr Chris Sainsbury

Dr Chris Sainsbury

Honorary Senior Clinical Research Fellow
Consultant Physician, Diabetes & Endocrinology, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Senior Fellow

Institute of Applied Health Research

Dr Sainsbury is a consultant diabetologist in Glasgow. He has a longstanding interest in data analysis and coding, leading to a number of projects in the areas of mathematical modelling and machine learning.

He is currently an NHS Research Scotland Senior Fellow, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.

Email
c.sainsbury.1@bham.ac.uk

Mr Mark Sheldon

Honorary Research Associate

Institute of Applied Health Research

Mark's role as an Honoray Research Associate primarily consists of supporting the British Heart Foundation with the production of key statistics and analysis. The British Heart Foundation is the nation's heart charity and the largest independent funder of cardiovascular research. They collect the most comprehensive statistics on the effects, prevention, treatment, costs and causes of ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 8679
Email
m.p.sheldon@bham.ac.uk

Dr Dana Sumilo

Dr Dana Sumilo

Honorary Clinical Research Fellow in Public Health

Institute of Applied Health Research

Dana Sumilo is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.

Her main research interests are in the areas of health services research, policy evaluation, maternal and child health and infectious disease epidemiology.

She is the Chief Investigator of the NIHR HTA funded project (16/150/01) “Long term impact of giving ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7692
Email
d.sumilo@bham.ac.uk

Dr Rasiah Thayakaran

Dr Rasiah Thayakaran

Research Fellow in Health Informatics (Statistics)

Institute of Applied Health Research

Thayakaran (Thaya) is a Research Fellow in Health Informatics (Statistics) in the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham.

His research focuses on propensity score matching for observational data and on survival analysis using extended Cox proportional hazard model with time varying covariates. Also his research interests have focused recently on methods for dealing with ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3027
Email
r.thayakaran@bham.ac.uk

Professor G. Neil Thomas

Professor G. Neil Thomas

Professor of Epidemiology and Research Methods
Director, NIHR Research Support Service National Collaborative
Director NIHR Research Support Service Birmingham Hub and partners Keele, and Warwick

Institute of Applied Health Research

Professor Neil Thomas is the Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) National Collaborative providing strategy and oversight to the NIHR Research Support Service. He is also the Director of the NIHR Research Support Service that provides expert research design, methodological support, advice, and collaboration to all researchers in England throughout the pre- and ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 8696/PA : Karen Biddle +44 (0)121 414 7578
Email
g.n.thomas@bham.ac.uk

Dr Brian Willis

MRC Clinician Scientist

Institute of Applied Health Research

Brian Willis is an MRC Clinician Scientist in Primary Care.

This divides his time between working in clinical practice as a GP and being a research investigator where his principal interest is in diagnostic test research.

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7949
Email
b.h.willis@bham.ac.uk