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Dr Viktoria Eleftheriadou is a Consultant Dermatologist at Walsall Healthcare & The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trusts.

Her research interests include vitiligo and skin pigmentary disorders, evidence-based dermatology, trials methodology, outcome measures and qualitative research. She was awarded her PhD on vitiligo in 2013, which was conducted at the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology, ...

Zainab is working as a Research Fellow at the Health Economics Unit (HEU), University of Birmingham. She is interested in applied health economics alongside clinical trials and modelling with a particular interest in non-communicable diseases especially cardiovascular diseases and cancer.  She is also interested in developing health economic capacity in low-and middle-income countries. ...

Aditya Acharya is a Computer Scientist with expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and works as a Research Fellow in the Health Informatics, THINKING Research Group at the Institute of Applied Health Research. His research work combines Data Analytics, Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), leading to several projects in diverse areas and topics.

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Peymané is a public health physician and Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology & Public Health in the Institute of Applied Health, University of Birmingham.  She is also Lead of the PHRESH consortium, part of the NIHR School for Public Health Research.

Her research interests are in chronic disease epidemiology and behavioural medicine. This includes a portfolio of work ...

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.

Nafsika’s research interests are in the Economics of Obesity and the use of health economics methods to support a systems approach to obesity policy. She is particularly interested in the application of economic evaluation and decision-analytic modelling to direct decision making in the realm of obesity. 

Nafsika has recently joined the Centre for Economics of Obesity led by Professor ...

Ridhi is a medical statistician based in the Test Evaluation Research Group (TERG) within the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation (BESaTE)research group. Her main interests are in risk prediction modelling and evaluating the accuracy of medical tests in clinical trial setting. Ridhi also works on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy and ...

Lee is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Patient-Reported Outcome Research (CPROR), University of Birmingham, UK. 

He is also one of the Deputy Directors at CPROR and a co-Lead for the PRO theme, MRC-NIHR Trial Methodology Research Partnership (TMRP) Outcomes working group.

Esther works as a systematic reviewer in the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluationteam conducting evidence syntheses, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and health technology assessments (HTA) to aid decision making within local and national healthcare. Esther has carried out systematic reviews in a range of therapy areas including head and neck cancer, obesity, neuroimaging, ...

Hareth is a Professor of health economics. He holds a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award (2020-2024) to research investments in mental health promotion in schools and workplaces. 

Hareth’s research interests include the measurement of wellbeing and preferences, the role of family (informal) care in the economic evaluation and decision-making, the economics of mental health, and ...

Camille Allard is a research fellow at the University of Birmingham. She recently completed her PhD on workplace support for working carers—employees who combine work alongside their care responsibilities.

Camille's research interests include unpaid care, care ethics, work, and organisations. Her current research examines how employers invest in health and wellbeing promotion at work.

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Nicola Anderson, PhD, is a Research Fellow within the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research (CPROR) at the University of Birmingham and Lead Nurse for RD & I Research Education at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.  Nicola's primary research interests are mixed methods outcomes research, with a focus on the use and implementation of electronic patient-reported ...

Luiz Andrade is a Health Economist within the Institute of Applied Health Research. He works primarily on the economic evaluation of health care interventions. 

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Patricia Apenteng is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research and is funded by the West Midlands Applied Research Collaboration (ARC). 

Her research is centred on improving outcomes for patients and the efficiency of healthcare services.  She uses a range of research methodologies, and her work spans several disciplines including implementation science, ...

Dr Asamane is a nutritionist and worked previously as a district nutrition officer with the Ghana Health service for 5 years in the areas of maternal and child health nutrition.

As a Marie-Sklodowska Curie early stage researcher at the University of Birmingham (UK), Dr Asamane obtained his PhD exploring nutrition and physical function of ethnic older minorities, using mixed methods. Afterwards, ...

Simon is a postgraduate research student on a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) funded PhD. He is a member of the University of Birmingham Test Evaluation Research Group (TERG) and Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation (BESaTE) group, and an honorary contract holder at University Hospitals Birmingham in the Health Informatics ...

Mohammed Baragilly is an Honorary Research Fellow in medical statistics based in the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham.

He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics in 2016 from School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham. His PhD thesis is on clustering multivariate and functional data using some non-parametric methods.

Mohammed has worked, ...

Dr Marco Bardus' research in health communication aims to understand how to effectively influence behaviours to prevent public health and environmental health issues.

His research focuses on developing, implementing, and evaluating public health interventions using a strategic social marketing framework. His research is placed at the intersection between social and behaviour change ...

Dr Suzanne Bartington is a public health clinician and environmental epidemiologist with research interests focusing on three core themes: (1) health and environmental impacts of ambient and indoor air pollution; (2) sustainable transport mobilities specifically links between active travel infrastructure and health; (3) environmental public policy formulation, implementation and evaluation. ...

Pelham Barton is an Honorary Reader in Mathematical Modelling in the Health Economics Unit. He has over 120 publications, of which over 100 are academic papers published in peer-reviewed journals. On almost all of these his contribution was to lead the economic and mathematical modelling aspects of the study.   

Pelham is an internationally recognised expert in modelling applied ...

Sophie works as a Systematic Reviewer in the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation group, having previously held a Research Methods Fellowship in Systematic Reviews.

She recently graduated with an MPH from the University of Birmingham and has specialist knowledge in evidence synthesis and research methods. Sophie has worked on reviews of test accuracy, effectiveness and risk ...

Sarah Berhane is a research fellow in medical statistics based in the Institute of Applied Health Research. She is a member of the Test Evaluation Research Group (TERG) and the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation (BESaTE) teams.

Sarah’s main research interests are diagnostic and prognostic modelling for clinical prediction, and systematic reviews of diagnostic test ...

Mr Aneel Bhangu is a Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Birmingham and a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at University Hospital Birmingham. His clinical practice includes management of colorectal cancer, common proctological problems, and a range of general and emergency conditions. Aneel is based in the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences. His full online CV can be found on ...

Jon Bishop is a senior medical statistician at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) and the NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC).

Jon is interested in the design, conduct and analysis of large scale late phase randomised controlled clinical trials (RCTs). In his BCTU work he assesses medical, surgical, and complex interventions in a diverse portfolio of ...

Steven is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham. An applied health researcher, with specific expertise in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement. Steven is the lead for public involvement in NIHR Research Design Service (RDS) West Midlands. Current Chair of the national RDS Public Involvement Community and Public Involvement Lead ...

Sonja joined the Health Economics Unit in October 2018 as a PhD student focussing on the measurement of costs and benefits for sexual health control programmes. Sonja is supervised by Health Economics Unit’s Dr Louise Jackson, Professor Emma Frew and Professor Jonathan Ross (University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB). It is a three year Umbrella Sexual Health ...

Kristien Boelaert is a Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Birmingham and a Consultant Endocrinologist at University Hospitals Birmingham. Her clinical research interests include the management of thyroid dysfunction, nodules and endocrine disorders in pregnancy. Her laboratory research programme focuses on the pathogenesis of thyroid cancer and she is involved in a number of clinical ...

Elizabeth Brettell is Trials Management Team Leader at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU), where she has worked since 1998 co-ordinating large randomised controlled clinical trials in Alzheimer’s Disease, Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, women’s health and renal disease.

Peter Brocklehurst is Professor erasmus of Women’s Health and Director of Research and Development for the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Peter trained as an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist before moving into academia to train as a perinatal epidemiologist.  He is a consultant in public health and his major research focus has ...

Stephanie is a Senior Trial Manager for the ECAL trial.

Ceren is a postgraduate student working on late effects in survivors of cancer in childhood, teenage or young adulthood at the Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivor Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Melanie Calvert, PhD, Professor of Outcomes Methodology at the University of Birmingham, has extensive experience in the design and analysis of clinical trials, trials methodology, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, economic evaluation and epidemiology. Her primary research interests are outcomes research, including the use of composite outcomes and best practice for patient reported outcome ...

Hilary is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Her current research seeks to identify the impact of colleague suicide on NHS staff, and what needs they have following colleague suicide in order to inform postvention guidance. Her research background is in adult mental health and qualitative methods, her interests include workplace wellbeing and the impact of adverse ...

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 ...

Versha is a Medical Statistician at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit. She works on clinical trials in the Women’s Health area. Her main responsibilities include the analysis and reporting of trials as well as the design and development of new trials under the mentorship of a senior statistician.

KK Cheng (郑家强) has been Professor at the University of Birmingham since 1995. His main interests are in the epidemiology, prevention and control of important non-communicable diseases, and the development of primary care in China.

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Peter Chilton works as a Research Fellow and Communication Lead for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West Midlands. 

As a Research Fellow his work includes researching and writing papers and reviews for peer-reviewed publication and external funding bodies; sourcing references; and preparing presentations. As Communication Lead he is ...

Sopna is a highly motivated and versatile research professional with over 15 years of health research and clinical project management experience, both in the UK and international. A passionate individual who is eager to help improve the lives of people living with ill health. A strategic project manager with expertise in management of medical research programmes and clinical trials development ...

Bircan is a research fellow working in the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research and the NIHR ARC (National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Centre) West Midlands. She is further delivering seminars as a Lecturer at the Business School, University of Birmingham and works as a Consultant at the Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge.

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Professor Clarke has a long history of research in Parkinson's disease and headache disorders. He runs large pragmatic clinical trials examining medical, surgical and rehabilitation interventions in Parkinson's disease (PD MED, PD SURG, PD REHAB, PD COMM and PD GEN).

 

Joanne Clarke is a Research Fellow for the ABA-feed Infant Feeding Study

Jo is a mixed-methods researcher with a particular interest in public health, infant feeding, obesity prevention, school health and FGM.

 

Dr Connor’s areas of research include 1) the history of anaesthesia, particularly military anaesthesia and 2) the history of provincial medicine and provincial medical societies and associations in the nineteenth century.
He is a member and previous council member of the History of Anaesthesia Society. He is a member of several societies relating to the history of medicine and has lectured ...

April Coombe is an experienced information specialist who works in the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and Modelling (BESTEAM) research group at the Institute of Applied Health Research.

April trained as a librarian, and has substantial Information Specialist experience working across the academic and NHS sectors.

Her current focus is on developing search ...

Fiona is a Research Fellow for the Applied Research Collaborative (West Midlands) in the Maternity Theme. She is particularly interested in postnatal care, ethnicity and perinatal and maternal morbidity. She has previously worked on the evaluation of the Birmingham and Solihull United Maternity and Partnership (BUMP) implementation of the Better Birth (2016) ...

Francesca Crowe is a nutritional epidemiologist with an interest in how diet and nutrition influences health. Most of her work has involved assessing the associations of the intake of certain foods and nutrients with the risk of developing diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and digestive diseases (e.g. diverticular disease) in large prospective cohort studies. She has a special ...

Samantha Cruz Rivera, PhD, has expertise in the design and analysis of Delphi methodology, systematic reviews, surveys and co-designing research with patient advocates and members of the public. Her main research interests are assessment of patient reported outcomes (PROs) and maximising the impact of PROs from clinical trials. Other research interests include artificial intelligence and ...

Carole Cummins is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Applied Health Research and Director of the Birmingham and Brunel External Assessment Centre for NICE.

Her current research includes health services research focussed on children’s healthcare as part of the NIHR Birmingham and Black Country Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care and primary and ...

Amanda Daley is a reader in behavioural medicine and leads the behavioural medicine team in primary care.  Her work is focused on investigating the effects of lifestyle interventions on health outcomes, particularly around women’s health.  She is the principal investigator on several on-going trials that are examining the effectiveness of physical activity and weight control ...

Sarah Damery has been a Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research since September 2008. She was initially part of the cancer research team within the Department of Primary Care Clinical Sciences and worked on a number of projects centred on cancer and chronic disease early diagnosis and screening uptake. 

From 2014 to 2019 she was a research fellow in the chronic ...

Clare Davenport is an Associate Clinical Professor working in the Institute of Applied Health Research. She is a member of the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and Modelling team.

Clare collaborates on methodological and applied health research projects. Her research interests include methods for undertaking systematic reviews of test accuracy, methods for evaluating the impact ...

Professor Justine Davies' aim is to do research that informs development of health systems that deliver quality care in lower- or middle-income countries. All of her research aims to answer a policy relevant question and she often works with policy makers, including the WHO, to develop and answer questions of relevance to them. 

Professor Davies is passionate about capacity building, ...

Jon Deeks is Professor of Biostatistics and leads the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation Research Group in the Institute of Applied Health Research. He is also a Theme Lead within the NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre.

Jon trained as a medical statistician, and has followed a career which has given him broad experience across health research through working ...

Andy is an Honorary Research Fellow for the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham. Andy is  Lead Research Fellow for Breathe Well; an NIHR-funded Global Health Research Group on COPD in Primary Care. The aim of the programme is to foster research in primary care and the community to improve the diagnosis, management and prognosis of COPD patients in low and middle ...

Dr Emma Dickinson-Craig is pursuing a PhD researching air pollution interventions and maternal health in Mongolia.

Her main research interests are maternal health, environmental health and health systems in LMIC.

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Jac Dinnes is a Senior Researcher in the Test Evaluation Research Group at the Institute of Applied Health Research. Her main interests are in diagnostic test accuracy systematic reviews and in methodological research to identify and validate the best ways of designing and analysing studies to evaluate medical tests used for diagnostic and monitoring purposes. 

Dr Diwakar is a Consultant in Immunology at the University Hospitals of North Midlands.

She is currently funded by the Wellcome Trust for a PhD in Health Economics. Her project is aimed at carrying out an economic evaluation of paediatric allergy services in the West Midlands. She is looking at ways to incorporate end user preferences into planning allergy services for the West Midlands and will ...

Dr Alexandra Dobell is a research fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research.  She currently works across the NIHR funded EPIC study and as a Research Site Manager for the NAP SACC study.

Dr Lucy Doos is a senior trial manager at Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit.

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Janine has considerable experience in conducting evidence syntheses, systematic reviews, meta-analyses and health technology assessments (HTA) to inform local and national healthcare decision making. Research outputs include reports commissioned by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme. Janine has an interest in ...

Christina Easter is a Medical Statistician in the Institute of Applied Health Research and a member of the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation (BESaTE) research group. Christina’s main research interests are in prognosis and more recently cluster randomised trials. Christina also works for the West Midlands Research Design Service (RDS) as a statistical advisor.

Dr Khalifa Elmusharaf is an Associate Professor and Director of the Public Health Programme at the University of Birmingham Dubai. 

Dr Elmusharaf is medically qualified. He obtained his PhD in Public Health from University of Galway in Ireland. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health at the Royal College of Physicians UK, and is accredited reviewer by the European Agency for Public ...

Alexandra Enocson is the Programme manager of several Global Health projects, set in Low-middle income countries.

Alex also managed Breathe Well, an NIHR-funded Global Health programme, in the Institute of Applied Health Research and the Birmingham Lung Improvement StudieS (BLISS) programme, which is a series of connected research studies about COPD, funded by an NIHR five-year programme grant. ...

Dr Amanda Farley is an Associate Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology working in the Institute of Applied Health Research. She has over 15 years’ experience of research within the field of public health and teaches epidemiology and research methods on the masters in public health (MPH), undergraduate medical sciences (BMedSc) and undergraduate medicine degree ...

Qulsom is a social psychologist with an interest in all things human. She is particularly interested in the social and cultural factors that influence psychological illness and mental wellbeing both in terms of the role they play in triggering mental illness and also in terms of presentation of illness whilst working with families with disabled children.

In 2000 and 2001, she developed both an ...

Dr Anthony Fenton is an Honorary NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Renal Medicine, with research interests in chronic kidney disease (CKD), prognosis research, medical statistics, and big data. In this role, he will build on his previous work on prognosis research in CKD by examining the use and validity of a prognostic model (Kidney Failure Risk Equation) in the UK primary care population. He is also a ...

Lavinia Ferrante di Ruffano is a methodologist working in the Medical Test and Biomarker Evaluation Research Group, led by Professor Jon Deeks. Her main research focus is developing the methods for evaluating the clinical effectiveness of diagnostic tests.

Dr Finnikin is a GP who is interested in shared decision making and personalised care. He has done research into how risk scores are used in CVD prevention and experience of using primary care datasets to answer investigate clinical decision making.

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Ben joined the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research (CPROR) in November 2019 to work on a three year project funded by Kidney Research UK.  The objective of the project is to develop a new electronic questionnaire to measure patient outcomes and improve the management of kidney diseases.

Ben has an interest in mixed-methods research, particularly stated preference studies.

Emma’s research interests are in the Economics of Obesity and the use of health economics methods to generate evidence to support public health decision making.  The application of these methods includes economic evaluation, econometric and decision-analytic modelling methods. 

Emma leads The Centre for Economics of Obesity, a new Centre for using health economics to support ...

Clare Frobisher is an Honorary Research Fellow on the British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (BCCSS). 

Clare has published over 20 research papers in scientific journals and presented her work at several International and European conferences on the late effects of childhood cancer.

Her work from the BCCSS has explored the following areas of research in relation to 5-year survivors of ...

Lin’s research interests are in the economics of obesity; migration, vulnerability, and wellbeing; and the determinants of health-compromising behaviours.

Lin joined the Centre for Economics of Obesity led by Professor Emma Frew in December 2021. Her research focuses on transforming urban food systems funded by the UK Research and Innovation Mandala consortium programme. 

Mike Gardner is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research.

He has more than 10 years’ research experience in epidemiology, systematic reviewing, meta-analyses and health-related research. Mike is a Research Design Service (RDS) Advisor at the Birmingham Hub of the NIHR West Midlands RDS. In this role he provides advice to health and social care professionals on health ...

Dr Geiringer is a social and cultural historian of modern Britain, with a particular interest in the histories of sexuality, religion, gender and emotions. He has published on Catholicism and sexuality, participatory oral history methods, the history of the home computer and anti-racism in the inner city.

His current role involves working with Dr Anne Hanley on the UKRI-funded project Histories ...

Senior Researcher at Global Health Unit. Currently working on “Equitable Access to Quality Health Care for Injured People in Four Low or Middle Income Countries”.

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Alan Girling has published research papers in Statistical Methodology, Applied Statistics and Health Economics, and has contributed to many medical research projects.

 

Eleni is a Medical Statistician working at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in the Institute of Applied Health Research. She works on clinical trials in the areas of Women’s Health, Portfolio V, Primary Care, and Renal. Her main responsibilities include the analysis and reporting of trials as well as the design and development of new trials under the mentorship of a Senior ...

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 ...

Wenjie Gong, BM, PhD, is Professor at the Department of Maternal and Child Health of Central South University and the founding Executive Deputy director of H.E.R (Health, Education & Research for Women) Center at the Hunan Provincial Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital. 

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Tiffany is a research fellow in gloabl health with experience in epidemiology, global health and health systems and applied health research using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Tiffany is currently working on various projects through the NIHR Global Groupin Atrial Fibrillation management in Brazil, China and Sri Lanka and Critical Care Asia and Africa (CCAA) -  a network of ...

Sheila Greenfield is Professor of Medical Sociology in the Institute of Applied Health Research.  She teaches medical sociology on the MBChB  5 year and 4 year Graduate Entry programmes.  She is a qualitative methodologist and her research is focussed on two main areas; the design and implementation of qualitative methodology as a component of mixed methods research; the methods ...

Ryan is a Senior Trial Manager at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU).

James is a personable and enthusiastic research fellow in Health Economics at the University of Birmingham.

James recently passed his PhD VIVA, entitled “An exploration of the use of decision analytic modelling in low back pain and sciatica”.  Accordingly, he is interested in the novel application of decision modelling in a variety of research areas, such air pollution and ...

Kelly Handley is a Senior Medical Statistician at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Kelly is interested in the design, conduct and analysis of large scale late phase randomised controlled clinical trials. She is the senior statistician on a wide variety of clinical trials in the areas of colorectal cancer, surgery, hepatology and cardiology, ...

Dr Hanley is a historian of medicine and modern Britain and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, with particular interest in the history of sexual and reproductive health. Her publications span a broad range of topics in medicine, welfare and sexuality during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In recent years, her research and teaching have become increasingly interdisciplinary, drawing ...

Stephanie is a Research Fellow working on the MuM-PreDiCT project. Her research focuses on pregnancy and postpartum care, working in collaboration with women and staff. She has skills in qualitative and quantitative research and analysis, and co-designing research with service users.

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Sayeed Haque is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics. 

 

Shamil is a clinical epidemiologist with a special interest in respiratory and chronic diseases. Shamil's research focuses on long COVID, asthma, and COPD, although he does have a broad interest in public health, primary care, and health data science.

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Lorraine Harper is Professor of Nephrology at the University of Birmingham. She has published over 70 research papers in scientific journals as well as reviews and book chapters in the fields of inflammation and nephrology. She has received major grants from Kidney Research UK and the Medical Research Council. 

Lorraine is a strong supporter of academic training supporting the ...

Bella works in the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation team as a systematic reviewer and previously held an NIHR Research Methods Fellowship. She is also one of the managing editors for the Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy (DTA) Editorial Team. She graduated from the University of Birmingham with honours degrees in Medical Studies and Psychological Medicine, and most recently ...

Melita is based in the Institute of Applied Health Research.  She works as PA to Professor Richard Lilford and Senior Administrator for ‘Team Lilford’. 

Previously she worked as Senior Administrator for the NICE External Assessment Centre, directed by Dr Carole Cummins.  Prior to this she was the 5^th Year CBM coordinator and support for Dr Russell Cherry.

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Ciara Harris is a chartered physiotherapist, who worked clinically full-time within the NHS, across a range of clinical specialities, for 4 years before moving to the University of Birmingham as a research associate in February 2018. She also continues some clinical work alongside her research role.

Her research interests lie in the evolving delivery of acute healthcare outside the traditional ...

Mike Hawkins is Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivors Studies.

He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed scientific and clinical journals mostly relating to the long-term health and social consequences of being treated for cancer. Mike has received programme grant funding from Cancer Research UK, the Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund and the ...

Dr Heggie is a historian of modern science and medicine, with a particular interest in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century biomedical and life sciences. She also dabbles in the philosophy of science.

She has published books on the history of exploration and physiology, and on sports medicine, and many articles and chapters on a range of topics from Victorian nursing and public health ...

Karla Hemming leads a research programme related to stepped wedge trials, this includes both theoretical and applied research. Karla has close links with the West Midlands CLAHRC (Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care) and through this collaboration has helped establish and complete three stepped-wedge studies. Karla is affiliated with the Birmingham Clinical Trials ...

Clare Herd is a systematic reviewer working predominantly in the areas of Parkinson’s disease and headache. Her main responsibility is the undertaking of systematic literature searching to identify existing evidence as a basis for development of clinical trial proposals, grant applications and synthesis of the worldwide research evidence. 

Bethany Hillier is based in the Test Evaluation Research Group within the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Bethany is finishing her MSc Medical Statistics at the University of Leicester. Once complete, Bethany will be exposed to a variety of projects, methods and techniques under the guidance of the research group. The group’s interests include systematic reviews, meta-analyses ...

Jo has overall management of Institute administration processes and procedures, in addition, she manages the IAHR/BCTU admin team.

Her varied role includes ensuring compliance to a full range of University requirements and delivery of key priorities in support of the Institute leadership team.

 

Victoria is a NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. With a special interest in preterm birth prevention and support the running of the specialised preterm birth service at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. The clinic works to prevent pregnancy loss and reduce preterm birth.

Victoria's research interests include all aspects of maternal and fetal health. She is currently ...

James Hodgkinson is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham. James is both a medical sociologist with a particular interest in qualitative methodology, and an experienced systematic reviewer who has led and supported a range of reviews. He has, however, enjoyed using a full range of research methodologies in health services research, also including ...

Sarah is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research (CPROR), Institute of Applied Health Research. Her research interests focus on the development and validation of patient reported outcomes and their implementation within the evolving landscapes of health and social care. She has methodological expertise in qualitative and mixed-methods research, evidence ...

Chris is a current West Midlands Respiratory Medicine Registrar with a specialist interest in Interstitial (ILD) and Occupational Lung Diseases (OLD). His primary research interests are epidemiological studies exploring association and causation within ILD and OLD and studies handling and analysing real world data on fibrotic ILD. He is a clinical member of the Birmingham Regional Interstitial ...

Agnieszka Ignatowicz is an Assistant Professor in Health Research Methods.

She is an experienced applied health researcher with a unique profile through her previous experiences of leading and working on projects at the interface between health services, education and clinical ethics. Her scholarship is grounded in qualitative methodology with application to organisation and delivery of care ...

Dr. Ilozumba is a Qualitative Research Fellow

She is a public health researcher, behavioural scientist and educator. Her research interests centre on improving the health of individuals and communities, particularly in resource limited contexts and for marginalized and minority populations.

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Fatihah (Frankie) Iman is a qualitative researcher currently working on the P-PAF project exploring patient pathways to diagnosis of atrial fibrillation.

Becky is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Unit at the Institute of Applied Health Research. She is currently working on the NIHR School for Social Care Research funded project “When the money runs out?” with Dr Phil Kinghorn and Dr Denise Tanner, investigating what happens in cases of capital depletion for people living in care homes.

Ryan Irwin is a Population Health Executive with Cerner and has a particular interest in primary care and population health improvement.  He has wide experience across health and care strategy, development and delivery and has served as a director and non-executive director across public, private and third sector health and care organisations. 

Ryan has a clinical background with a BSc ...

Jonathan Ives is a Honorary Senior Lecturer with the Institute of Applied Health Research.  Jonathan's current post is with the University of Bristol. 
 
Jon publishes predominantly in the field of biomedical ethics, focussing on fatherhood and families, methods in empirical bioethics and research ethics  He is also interested in, and publishes on, public health ethics and ...

Louise Jackson is a Senior Lecturer within the Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham. She is Deputy Programme Lead for MSc in Health Economics & Health Policy and MSc Health Economics & Econometrics.

Louise has broad range of methodological experience and expertise. She is interested in applied research that improves health and care ...

Rebecca is a mixed methods researcher whose interests lie in implementation science spanning health and social care. She focuses on three areas of study: mixed methods data integration; the implementation and evaluation of health and social care interventions, and knowledge mobilisation: the movement of research knowledge into active practice-based use. Rebecca is interested in realist evaluation ...

Kate Jolly is a Professor of Public Health and Primary Care.

Her main research interests are on the prevention and management of important non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular and respiratory conditions; behaviour change to reduce obesity and increase physical activity and maternal and child health.

 

Ellie is currently undertaking an NIHR Advanced Fellowship to explore smoking cessation interventions for pregnant women with moderate to severe mental illness.

Ellie’s primary research interests are maternal health, perinatal mental health, pelvic floor muscle exercises for preventing urinary incontinence and postnatal care.

Ellie is involved in teaching and is a mentor for postgraduate ...

Dr Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Applied Health Research.

Laura is an experienced applied health researcher and her research focusses on undertaking qualitative and mixed-methods research to answer challenging questions around women’s and maternal health and within maternity care. She is the chief investigator of a large qualitative study funded by the National ...

Janet Jones is a Research Fellow in the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations, West Midlands team, working on theme 1, Long Term Conditions.

Janet’s research interests include: safety in care homes, health and social care service delivery for the elderly and those with long-term conditions, The use of virtual software for routine hospital outpatient appointments, evaluating the ...

Rachel Jordan is a Professor in Epidemiology & Primary Care. Her research focuses mainly on the early diagnosis, management and prognosis of COPD in the primary care setting.

She has successfully led several NIHR-funded programmes including a £2.4m programme grant and a £2m Global Health Research Group grant. Rachel is a member of the research leadership team and immediate ...

Linju is a Global Challenges PhD scholar at UoB College of Medical and Dental Sciences. Her project will be a mixed methods study which will include preliminary qualitative research and the development and piloting of a patient held booklet (intervention) for non-communicable disease in India. 

This project is a continuation of the Clinical Handover project in India by University of ...

Sue Jowett is a Professor in the Health Economics Unit (HEU) and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Primary Care Centre Versus Arthritis at Keele University.

Sue has an extensive portfolio of applied research concerning trial and model-based economic evaluations in chronic diseases. Sue oversees all health economics research within studies undertaken by the Primary Care Centre Versus ...

Mwayi Kachapila is a Research Fellow in Health Economics at the Health Economics Unit/NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery, University of Birmingham. He has research interest in economic evaluations of surgical interventions in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).

Mwayi's research outputs include economic evaluations of surgical interventions, cost of untreated surgical ...

Dr Punith Kempegowda is an Assistant Professor and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy at the University of Birmingham. He is also a consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham with special interest in reproductive endocrinology and acute diabetes. His research interests are in providing best possible care to people with diabetes and endocrine conditions and developing ...

Sara Kenyon is midwife by background who leads a programme of maternity research. This includes the large randomised controlled trials, mixed methods studies and implementation studies.

She is also a collaborator on the UK confidential enquiries into maternal and perinatal death (MBRRACE UK).  

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Jesse Kigozi is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Unit (HEU), University of Birmingham and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre at Keele University.  He is an experienced researcher in applied research concerning trial-based evaluations particularly in the area of musculoskeletal disease. Jesse is the health economist on health economics ...

Philip is a Senior Lecturer in the Health Economics Unit. His research interests relate to the measurement and valuation of outcomes in economic evaluation.  In particular, Philip is interested in the inclusion of broader outcomes within economic evaluations of health and social care interventions and the use of the capability approach within health economics.

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Mrs Katie Kirkham is a Senior Trial Manager for the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU), within the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham.

Laura Kudrna is an Assistant Professor in Health Research Methods at the University of Birmingham.  She researches behaviour change and wellbeing and has specific interests in topics related to workplaces, income and inequalities. 

Derek Kyte, PhD, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, has extensive experience in trials methodology, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and epidemiology. His primary research interests surround health outcomes, including the best-practice use of patient-reported outcome (PRO) assessment in clinical trials and routine practice.

Emma Lancashire is currently the trial coordinator for a cluster randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of an obesity prevention intervention in primary school age children. Prior to that she was the research manager for the British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, a long term follow up study of the survivors of childhood cancer.

Professor Deirdre Lane is an Honorary Professor of Cardiovascular Health at the University of Birmingham and an Adjunct Professor of Cardiovascular Health at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Her background is in health psychology and cardiovascular epidemiology and her research examines how cardiovascular disease affects patients’ quality of life and psychological well-being, their ...

Professor Dan Lasserson is the only Professor of Ambulatory Care in the UK. His research group tackles one of the biggest challenges that healthcare is facing – the delivery of acute medical care, where needs are increasing year by year but the available resources to meet those needs are limited. Both primary and secondary care acute services are increasingly stretched and calls for new ...

Anna Lavis is an Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology in the Institute of Applied Health Research, and the Institute for Mental Health. 

In a range of collaborations across academic, policy and clinical interfaces, her work has two core focuses:

1. Anna leads a programme of research into social media and health, with a particular focus on mental health. She directs the Social Media ...

Ing joined the public health training scheme as an academic clinical fellow after completing her general practitioner training

Richard was a full time NHS general practitioner for over 30 years and has previously held academic positions at Oxford and Yale. He is committed to an overarching view of medicine as a scientific and humane enterprise to be shared with patients and society. The term Shared Understanding of Medicine is a fusion of Evidence Based Medicine, Shared Decision Making and Patient-Centred Medicine.

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Dr Li’s research focuses on the development, evaluation and implementation of complex health interventions in low and middle income countries, in order to tackle leading global health challenges such as obesity and undernutrition. Dr Li has a strong track record in international academic citizenship and global media engagement. She is a Visiting Professor at the Guangxi Medical University ...

Professor Richard Lilford has pursued a successful career in medicine for over 40 years, specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology and more recently, health service research. He has research methodological expertise in the evaluation of complex interventions and prospective health economic evaluations of service delivery interventions. He has designed a framework for the evaluation of complex ...

Rachel’s primary focus at present is in global health, particularly in the fields of surgery and maternal health, addressing urgent clinical needs of people living in the global south. As Deputy Trials Management Team Leader, Rachel oversees a portfolio of trials managed by Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, in strategic partnership with NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgeryand ...

Professor Lip is a clinical researcher, with a major interest into the epidemiology of atrial fibrillation (AF), as well as the pathophysiology of thromboembolism in this arrhythmia.  Furthermore, he has been researching stroke and bleeding risk factors, and improvements in clinical risk stratification.  The CHA₂DS₂-VASc and HAS-BLED scores - for assessing stroke and bleeding risk, ...

Ian Litchfield is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, with a background in occupational medicine and interests in health service delivery. He uses qualitative and quantitative research methods in the evaluation of service delivery interventions in both primary and secondary care. Ian is currently co-lead of the Centre of Primary Care ...

Zulian Liu is a Honorary Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research and currently a Senior Systematic Reviewer at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford.

Zulian has worked in various research capacities, undertaking systematic reviews, rapid evidence reviews and health technology assessments for UK regional and national organisations including ...

Christine MacArthur is Professor of Maternal and Child Epidemiology in the Institute of Applied Health Research.  Her main research is on childbirth-related health problems especially longer-term, as well as the evaluation of maternity health services. She has published many papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as several books and ...

Clare is a PhD student exploring how to improve identification and management of mental and other health problems in the GP postnatal check.  She started her studentship with the NIHR ARC West Midlands Maternity Theme in April 2021. She is also a practicing GP in Leicestershire and completed her medical training in Norfolk and Derbyshire. Clare has a longstanding interest in postnatal ...

Bassit’s research interests are in public health economics and obesity. He is particularly interested in the use of decision-analytical modelling methods.

He has recently joined the Centre for Economics of Obesity, led by Professor Emma Frew, where he is pursuing a National Institute of Health and Research funded PhD.

Bassit’s research explores decision-analytical modelling to ...

Semira Manaseki-Holland trained as a public health physician in England with joint qualifications in paediatrics with research leadership focus on health systems and maternal-child health, mainly in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) over a 25 year period. Semira worked in the NHS for 9 years after which she intensified her global health research and health systems delivery, including ...

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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Dr Martin is a social and cultural historian of modern Britain, with a particular interest in histories of gender and sexuality, histories of health and the body, and queer history.

Her current role involves working with Dr Anne Hanley on the UKRI-funded project Histories of Sexual Health in Modern Britain. The project maps sexual health histories from the end of the First World War to ...

James Martin is an Assistant Professor in Biostatistics in the Institute of Applied Health Research. He is a member of the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and Modelling (BESTEAM) research group.

Since joining the Institute in 2012, James has been involved in many exciting projects, collaborating with other members of the BESaTE team, colleagues from the University of ...

Jonathan is an Associate Professor in Qualitative and Mixed Methods Applied Health Research.  He has broad based expertise in the application of qualitative and mixed methods research approaches in a range of applied health and policy contexts.

He is currently the qualitative research lead for several UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded clinical trials and trial ...

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Lynsay is a Honorary Research Fellow on the LAVA trial, comparing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of laparoscopic hysterectomy with abdominal hysterectomy. Lynsay undertakes the qualitative process evaluation addressing the acceptability and feasibility of the trial to women and health care professionals.

For more info on LAVA please see www.bham.ac.uk/lava 

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Christel is a Qualitative Research Fellow in the Centre for Patient-Reported Outcomes Research in the Institute of Applied Health Research. Her main interests lie in electronic Patient Reported Outcomes and using Qualitative Research to explore and understand patients’ experiences of disease and trial processes.

She is currently leading/working on a range of projects around using ...

Mrs Razia Meer-Baloch is responsible for the development and management of postgraduate modules and programmes, and professional development courses for staff involved in clinical trials at all levels. She oversees and plans the training to meet the needs of staff within the unit, in addition to identifying further opportunities to develop taught postgraduate programmes.

Samir Mehta has over 10 years’ experience in the design and analysis of clinical trials working as a Medical Statistician for the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU).

Samir's main portfolios within BCTU are trials related to Renal disease, surgical interventions and Atrial Fibrillation (AF).

Samir has also worked in trials related to Parkinson’s and cardiovascular disease, ...

Lee Middleton is Reader in Clinical Trials and Statistics Lead at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Lee’s main research interests are in the design, conduct and analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs). He is the lead methodologist and statistician on a portfolio of clinical trials in obstetrics, gynaecology and intraoperative ...

Hamideh conducts research in behavioural economics using experimental methods. Her research focuses on social preferences and decisions made in the presence of a moral wiggle room. She joined the Centre for Economics of Obesity in 2021, where she is involved in research targeting the determinants of obesity across the retail workstream. With this project she explores how interventions can modify ...

El is a qualitative Research Fellow who focuses on experiences of healthcare alongside other interests.

She is currently working on an evaluation of the NIHR Associate Principle Investigator (API) Scheme.  The qualitative element of this evaluation will explore the experiences of participation in the scheme of a variety of stakeholder. These include the API participant, local PIs and CIs of ...

Mark has been working in the Health Economics Unit since November 2013 and has built up a career in health economics over the years. Mark was previously affiliated with the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Unit on Global Surgery where he provided health economic input to the global surgery programme.

Mark is at the write up stage for a PhD on the economics of safe surgery in Low- and ...

Dr Moore specialises in directing multidisciplinary teams of researchers undertaking systematic reviews, health technology assessments and associated research. He is co-Director of the MSc/Diploma/Certificate in Health Research Methods and a curriculum advisor and previous deputy director of the MSc/Diploma/Certificate in Public Health at the University of Birmingham. He leads a post-graduate ...

Sarah is the Senior Trial Manager for the Colour-COPD trial, a 2-arm, multi-centre, randomised controlled trial investigating the use of a sputum colour chart to guide antibiotic self-treatment when patients experience acute exacerbation of COPD.

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Katie’s research aims to improve the care for women with multiple pregnancies, fetal anomalies, growth restriction, reducing infection in maternity and prevention of preterm birth, employing prognostic and diagnostic research, modelling, systematic reviews and trials. As Director of Birmingham Clinical Trials Unitshe is responsible for leading, developing and delivering a robust and ...

After Dion received his degree in Medicine from Bristol University in 1985, he took up an honorary consultant appointment at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust in 1996 and was appointed Professor of Surgery in 2006. In 2015, he became Barling Chair of Surgery. He is also Surgery Section Head at the Institute of Cancer and Genomics.

Dion was appointed Officer of the Order of ...

Marie is Research Fellow and Project Coordinator for the FUEL Study (Food Provision, Culture and Environment in Secondary Schools). This is a mixed methods study to evaluate the implementation of national school food standards in secondary schools and their impact on the school food environment and pupil intake of free sugars. The project is funded through the NIHR Research Public Health Research ...

Walter-Rodney Nagumo joined Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in January 2023 as Quality Assurance Manager.

He is responsible for ensuring best practices within the unit, identifying risks and mitigation strategies, enhancing local Standard Operating Procedures, interpreting regulatory and audit requirements and providing local guidance, training and support for clinical researchers and ...

Michael Newnham is an Associate Professor and Consultant in Respiratory Medicine.

Michael’s research interests are predominately focused on pulmonary vascular diseases including pulmonary embolism and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. He has experience in research methods that include genomics, big data, biostatistics, clinical research trials and risk prediction ...

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 ...

Elaine O’Connell Francischetto is a PhD student at the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Lucy Oakey is a Programme Manager for PHRESH, which is one of nine leading academic centres with excellence in applied public health research, which make up the NIHR School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR).

The PHRESH Consortium includes researchers from the Universities of Birmingham, Warwick and Keele. It will address important public health challenges to improve the health and ...

Maria Lisa is an Honorary Research Fellow in Global Health. Maria Lisa has been interested in global health before starting medical school in 2007 and spent her training in several different countries; Brazil, Australia and Malawi in addition to Norway.

She has a particular interest in reproductive health and holds a PhD on post abortion care from Malawi. Maria Lisa has recently started as a ...

Chidubem is a Research Fellow at the Health Economics Unit, University of Birmingham. 

She is an enthusiastic researcher and is interested in outcome valuations and costing particularly in the areas of maternal, child and sexual health.  

She recently completed an economic evaluation alongside the PRISM trial,  which is funded solely by NIHR-HTA (UK is a ...

Kelvin is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Dr Raymond Oppong is a Senior Lecturer at the Health Economics Unit, University of Birmingham. 

He is an enthusiastic researcher who is interested in issues such as economic evaluation in the area of musculoskeletal disease, the economics of antimicrobial resistance, quality of life research and economic analysis alongside multinational, cluster and factorial trials. 

He has published ...

Miranda’s research mainly focuses on the health of children and adolescents. She has undertaken research into the epidemiology, prevention and management of overweight and obesity in children, and is also expanding her research to include general health and wellbeing in childhood and adolescence. Her research seeks to improve health in childhood, and in the longer term to reduce adult ill ...

Helen is an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer and GP working in the child, maternity and lifestyle research group. Her work is focussed on weight management and obesity. She primarily works on clinical trials investigating new weight management interventions.  

She has also published a systematic review on the clinical effectiveness of very low energy diets. She led the development of a ...

Jayne is Professor of Policy and Public Health in the Institute of Applied Health Research. She holds an honorary consultant contract with Public Health England. 

Jayne’s research focuses on the assessment and evaluation of the health impacts of national policy initiatives. Her present main focus of enquiry is on the impact of policies directed at changing the recruitment, ...

Rosie is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research. In her current role, she combines qualitative and quantitative research methods to understand self-harm in young people with an eating disorder.

Rosie is interested in employing longitudinal research methods to explore risk and protective factors for suicide and self-harm, eating disorders, and psycho-oncology. She also has ...

Sam Perry is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Unit. He is currently working on the SAMA Project which aims to develop and test school-based interventions to support the wellbeing of adolescents in India. 

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Thomas Pinkney received his Medical Degree from the University of Birmingham in 2000. He was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Surgery in 2012 and awarded an honorary consultant appointment at the University Hospitals Birmingham at the same time.  In 2019 he was appointed as George Drexler and Royal College of Surgeons Chair of Surgical Trials at the University of Birmingham

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Emma comes from a mathematical background and chose to apply her mathematical skills to solving medical problems rooted in statistics. She is based in the Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivor Studies and is working on several projects simultaneously.

Irina joined the Health Economics Unit and the Centre for Economics of Obesity led by Professor Emma Frew in 2021.  Irina’s research interests are in the field of economics of mental health and obesity, and the use of health economics methods to capture the complexity of public health interventions.

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Mr Popplewell has been recently appointed as Clinical Lecturer in Vascular Surgery at the University of Birmingham. He works clinically at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire. Mr Popplewell's keen interest is in limb ischaemia, peripheral arterial disease and interventions for patients with infrapopliteal arterial disease.

 

Chris is a Research Fellow within the Institute for Applied Health Research. His main interest is the lived experience of disease, treatment and support and his background is in dementia studies. He is currently the qualitative researcher on the NIHR funded CALIBRE trial, investigating the effectiveness of variceal banding ligation vs carvedilol.

Malcolm Price is a Lecturer in Biostatistics at Institute of Applied Health Research.

Malcolm has a keen interest in tackling important applications in evidence synthesis and decision modelling that require development of new methodology.

He has published over 20 research papers in scientific journals in the fields of statistics, epidemiology, health economics and clinical Sciences. He is ...

Ruth Pritchett is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research. Ruth is experienced in the field of behavioural medicine and has particular interests in maternal and child health and cardiovascular research. Ruth has experience in a range of research methodologies including randomised controlled trials, observational studies, analysis of national datasets, systematic reviews and ...

Anita Pye works predominantly in respiratory research and Phase 1 to 3 clinical trials looking at new treatments for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She also has considerable experience of assessment of bacteria in chronic lung disease.

 

Laura Quinn is a Medical Statistician working in the Institute of Applied Health Research. She works part-time on a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship in the Test Evaluation Research Group (TERG) and part-time as a Research Fellow in the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West Midlands.

Since joining the University in 2016, Laura has worked on a range of projects with collaborators both ...

Dr Kiran Rai is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research, involved with COPE-West Midlands; an MRC-funded project, investigating the contribution of occupational exposures to risk of COVID-19 in three large Trusts within the West Midlands.

Kiran is also the research fellow for eTHOS (Enhancing the Health of NHS Staff); an NIHR HS&DR funded project, ...

Karen Randall currently studies cases of medical negligence from various sources, including reported cases from coroners’ court proceedings, which have been publicised in newspapers and published clinical articles. Her key areas of focus include: Care of the Elderly & Insane, Human Experimentation, Scandals involving Medical Negligence, Obstetrics and Surgery & Anaesthesia.

Professor Jonathan Reinarz is the Director of The History of Medicine Unit. He is Professor of the History of Medicine.

Jonathan has published extensively on the history of hospitals and medical education, including a history of the Birmingham teaching hospitals (2009), the history of the senses, especially smell, and the history of accidents, including burns and scalds. Most recently has led an ...

Ameeta is a research fellow working in the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research and the NIHR ARC (National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Centre) West Midlands. 

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Raoul Reulen is a Senior Lecturer & NIHR Fellow at the Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivor Studies.

Raoul’s primary research interest is cancer survivorship, particularly long-term survival after childhood cancer. Raoul has co-authored over 25 publications. He has taught undergraduate and post-graduate courses in Epidemiology, cancer and medical statistics since 2005. His current ...

Dr Alistair Ritch is a former Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine at City Hospital, Birmingham, Senior Clinical Lecturer at University of Birmingham and Honorary Secretary of the British Geriatrics Society.

Tracy Roberts is Director of Global Engagement, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, Professor of Health Economics and Head of the Health Economics Unit.   In addition to these roles at the University of Birmingham, Tracy is an Honorary Professor of Health Economics at the University of Keele.

Tracy has specific research interests in the area of economic evaluation and is ...

Emma is the Marketing and Communications Assistant for the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Thomas Rose works for large multi-disciplinary and small specialist engineering functions in the manufacturing and service industries. His clients include multinationals; projects include total manufacturing facility electrical, electronic, and software control systems, and management systems. Establishing from the start:

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Natalie Rowland (née Ives) is a Reader in Clinical Trials. She is the Director of Statistics & Research Strategy, and a member of the Senior Management Team at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in the Institute of Applied Health Research. 

Natalie is interested in the design, conduct and analysis of large scale late phase randomised controlled clinical ...

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 ...

Rebecca Russell is a Specialist Registrar in Public Health, currently completing a placement with the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Rebecca previously trained as a Psychiatrist and during her time here has previously acted as Speciality Lead in Psychiatry for the MBChB course.

Rebecca currently has a role supporting teaching and assessment development in the POSH and MPH programmes.

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.

Jo Sartori is an experienced programme manager with a speciality in research development and international stakeholder relations and engagement. In recent years Jo has developed and managed a large portfolio of global health projects worth over £30million such as the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Improving Health in Slums. Jo works with Professor Richard Lilford, CBEand other ...

Katie Scandrett is a statistician based in the Test Evaluation Research Group within the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Her research interest is primarily in diagnostic test evaluation.

Fiona is a sociologist with expertise in qualitative research methodologies she is leading on WP1 of the Quantifying, Understanding and Enhancing Relational Continuity of Care (QUERCC) study.

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Lena is a joint-PhD candidate in Health Economics at the University of Birmingham and Maastricht University. She started her research project with the Health Services Research Department in Maastricht in February 2019 and will be joining the Health Economics Unit at UoB in September 2019. 

Karen Shaw is an experienced Research Psychologist with a track record in children’s health service development and research. Her research focuses on transitional health care for children with long-term or life-threatening conditions. This includes transitions between services (e.g. from paediatric to adult health services) and transitions along the condition trajectory (e.g. from curative ...

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 ...

After a number of years as a Market Researcher in the private sector, Jenny has spent the last ten years in public sector research roles, latterly as a public health research specialist. Her current role as Knowledge Exchange Facilitator combines working in a local authority public health information team, with researching epidemiology and health geography in the Institute of Applied Health ...

Diane is studying for a Doctorate in Applied Health Research with the College of Medical and Dental Sciences. Looking at the social implications of long-term chronic illness, her PhD – using qualitative research methods – investigates how people with Malygic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome build and maintain social and community networks and relationships, both online and ...

Dr Shukla is a Clinical Research Specialty Lead (CRSL) for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) with experience of research delivery within Primary Care settings including General Practice.  

Dr Shukla is a GP Partner at Eve Hill Medical Practice, in Dudley, a CQC ‘outstanding’ rated practice. 

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Alice Sitch is a Senior Lecturer working in the Institute of Applied Health Research and a member of the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation (BESaTE) research group.

Since joining the University in 2009, Alice has become involved in many exciting projects allowing her to collaborate with others in the BESaTE team and many other researchers at the University of Birmingham and ...

Magdalena Skrybant is Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Lead for NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West Midlands (ARC WM).  Magdalena’s role ensures that there is meaningful involvement with patients and the public in applied health research.

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Anita Slade PhD is the ITM Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes(PRO) research at the University of Birmingham. She is experienced in evaluating and developing patient reported outcome measures in a range of clinical settings.   She is experienced in using Rasch analysis as a tool for evaluating health outcomes and educational assessments.   She ...

Gemma is a Trials Management Team Leader at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU).

Harriet Smailes is a Research Associate on the NIHR-funded PROSPER study– the first national study to focus on the role and funding of specialist voluntary sector sexual violence services. After having joined the team in December 2021, Harriet supports the data collection and analysis for this mixed-methods research. This includes interviews with practitioners, commissioners and ...

Leonard Smith is a social historian with a special interest in the history of psychiatry and mental health institutions from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. His research has focussed primarily on England and the former British West Indian colonies. It encompasses the development of both private madhouses and public lunatic asylums, those who established and managed them, and the ...

Tom Sorahan has published more than 60 first-authored peer-reviewed papers on the identification and quantification of occupational cancer risks.

Andrew Stevens is Professor emeritus of Public Health and former Head of Department and Division (of Primary Care, Public and Occupational Health).

Andrew is interested in Health Services Research including health care needs assessment, health technology assessment and horizon scanning. He has edited the 4 volume Health Care Needs Assessment Series, and the Advanced Handbook of Methods in ...

Anuradhaa is a MSc Health Research Methods graduate from the University of Birmingham. She works as a Research Fellow (Health Informatics) at the Institute of Applied Health Research. 

She conducts routinely collected primary care data based epidemiological studies by designing and performing data analysis from datasets extracted using the automated system for epidemiological studies (ACES) ...

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 ...

Dr. Sun studied his BSc in mathematics at Shanxi university and MSc in Applied Mathematics at Sichuan University and had been working as a lecturer in higher education in China for about 10 years.

He then moved to the UK, completing a PhD in Pure Mathematics at the University of Birmingham in 2003 and an MSc in Medical Statistics at the University of Leicester in 2008.

Dr Muslim Abbas Syed is a public health specialist, health economist and medical educationist.

Professor Yemisi Takwoingi is based in the Test Evaluation Research Group within the Institute of Applied Health Research.  

Yemisi collaborates on methodological and applied health research projects. Her research interest is primarily in diagnostic test evaluation and systematic review methodology, especially meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy studies. 

Yemisi has several ...

Dr Clare Taylor graduated with distinction from the University of Cambridge and trained in hospital medicine gaining Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, London before undertaking further training in academic general practice and public health. She was an academic GP at the University of Birmingham and her main research interest is cardiovascular disease. She has published papers on ...

Beck is a Clinical Senior Lecturer working on the Maternity Theme of the NIHR West Midlands ARC programme. She is also an Honorary Consultant at Public Health England. Her research focuses on evaluating maternity services and policy, working in collaboration with women and staff. As a public health doctor she is trained to think at population and system-level. She has skills in qualitative and ...

Sarah Tearne is a  Trials Management Team Leader within the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit at the University of Birmingham. She has 10 years of experience working in clinical trials at multiple universities. Her area of expertise is primary care research however she works across a number of different research areas including, mental health, public health and neuroscience. Within the ...

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 ...

Professor Thomas is the Regional Director, NIHR Research Design Service West Midlands and Professor of Epidemiology and Research Methods in the Institute of Applied Health Research of the College of Medical and Dental Sciences, The University of Birmingham. 

Professor Thomas has an international portfolio of research in Europe, Africa and Asia investigating in the fields of cardiovascular ...

Dean is a Chartered Psychologist and Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research with an interest in mental health, psychosocial interventions and peer support. He is an advisor for the Research Design Service (RDS), offering consultation with health and social care researchers to produce competitive grant applications.

Rebecca is currently working as a Data Manager on the E-MOTIVE trial (Early detection and treatment of post-partum hemorrhage using the MOTIVE bundle: a World Health Organization cluster randomized trial with health economic analysis (the E-MOTIVE study). $10,915,588 USD. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 2019-2022)

Barbara Torlinska is a Research Fellow within the NIHR funded Research Design Service (RDS) West Midlands, Birmingham Hub.

As a general methodologist, Barbara supports healthcare professionals and researchers in the development of research funding proposals to national peer-reviewed funding programmes. She also conducts her own research within the Institute of Applied Health Research of the ...

Alice’s research interests are predominantly in clinical aspects of alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), fields in which she has published widely. Optimising monitoring and therapy for AATD is a major focus for her group. They are also studying aspects of care delivery for COPD, particularly those that span from secondary into primary care ...

Grace is currently undertaking a NIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship and is a Research Fellow for the NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC). 

Grace’s primary research interests are focused on the long-term impact of transient ischaemic attack (TIA); optimising stroke prevention; and Patient Reported Outcomes in Primary Care. She is also interested in use of ...

Natalie Tyldesley-Marshall is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research.

She is an experienced qualitative researcher, having undertaken mixed methods research in the areas of health and education.

Anita is Personal Assistant and Research Administrator to Professor Melanie Calvert and the Centre for Patient Reported Outcome Research within the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham.

Gareth is an NHS consultant in occupational respiratory medicine and interstitial lung diseases in Birmingham, and leads the supra-regional NHS occupational lung disease service.  His research broadly concerns the aetiology and identification of occupational airways diseases and pneumoconiosis.

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Jingya is a research fellow working at the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Derek Ward is a Reader in Public Health and Medical Education and holds an honorary contract with Public Health England. He teaches on a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and he has a particular interest in medical education, selection and assessment.

Currently, Derek leads the popular Master’s in Public Health (MPH) programme, co-leads the intercalated Public Health ...

Jane has a specialist interest in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), both in supporting patients and the healthcare staff that care for this population. Jane has worked within respiratory medicine since 2000 in a variety of clinical and teaching roles across primary, community, secondary, tertiary, health care settings. Jane maintains clinical practice, whilst also ...

Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Applied Health Research working on applied statistics in public health and healthcare. Dr Watson's current research looks at methods of evaluation in low resource settings including cluster trial and survey methodology particularly using Bayesian methods. Current grants/projects include evaluation of water and sanitation interventions in the ...

Sara is a registered midwife specialising in childbirth related perinea trauma with a special interest in obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASI).  As well as working at Birmingham Women's & Children's Hospital as Specialist Midwife – Perineal Trauma, Sara champions midwife-led translational research and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives in 2016 in ...

Dee Wherton is a Senior Trial Manager within the Women’s Health Team at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU), Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham.

Dee is responsible for the setup and coordination of the iHOLDS Trial: a double-blind randomised controlled trial of high or low dose oxytocin for induction of labour in nulliparous women.

Adrian Wilcockson has been working within the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) programming team since 2003. 
This team creates and supports bespoke database applications for trials run by the unit. These are typically SQL Server/ASP.NET systems for large, multi-centre/international phase 3 studies.

Dr Stuart Wildman is a former lecturer in the School of Nursing within the University and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Social Studies in Medicine group.

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Professor Andrew N. Williams PhD FRHistS is a consultant community paediatrician, medical historian, archive curator, playwright and film maker. He was trained in paediatrics/ paediatric neurodisability in Birmingham under Dr Geoff Debelle, Dr William Whitehouse and the late Dr S.H. Green.

• Since 1999, Andrew has had an honorary affiliation with the History of Medicine Unit, firstly with ...

Eleanor Williams is a Research Associate in the Health Economics Unit. She is currently working on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded E-MOTIVE project which aims to evaluate the implementation of early detection and the use of the WHO MOTIVE 'first response' treatment bundle for postpartum haemorrhage.

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.

Amie Wilson is a Research Fellow in Global Maternal Health and Midwife. Amie has real passion for improving care for women in resource limited settings. Amie’s PhD examined interventions to reduce maternal death in low-and-middle income countries (supervised by Professor Arri Coomarasamy and Professor Christine MacArthur). Amie’s work in evidence synthesis has achieved publications in ...

David is the I.T. Manager for the Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivor Studies (CCCSS). He started his career in Oxford in 1982 and moved to the University of Birmingham in 1998. He has been an author on over 20 peer-reviewed publications in the field of childhood cancer epidemiology.

Dr Annette Wood is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Institute of Applied Health Research. Her substantive employer is Public Health Englandwhere she is a Consultant in Public Health. She works with NHS England/Improvement both locally in the Midlands and nationally where she provides public health advice for Specialised Services Commissioning. She has an interest in training in ...

Katherine Woolley is a Global Challenges Doctoral Researcher, in the Institute of Applied Research, taking a mixed-methods approach to researching effective health interventions for household air pollution in urban Rwanda. She holds a Masters of Public Health (2018) and a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Geoscience (2017) both from Cardiff University

Katherine’s research interest revolve around ...

Rebecca is an Honorary Research Fellow for the four-year AHRC-funded project, ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injuries and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’.

Rebecca is a historian of medicine and of Quakers. Her research and publications centre on the history of psychiatry, mental health, neurosurgery, neurodiversity, and First World War medicine and disability. She has worked with ...

With a background working in occupational health, James has a particular interest in research surrounding workplace health and emergency services workers.

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