Key Staff

Professor Yemisi Takwoingi

Professor Yemisi Takwoingi

Head of the Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor of Test Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis

Institute of Applied Health Research

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

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 ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7833
Email
y.takwoingi@bham.ac.uk

Professor Hareth Al-Janabi

Professor Hareth Al-Janabi

Professor of Health Economics
Head of Health Economics Unit

Institute of Applied Health Research

Hareth is a Professor of Health Economics, with a track record of innovation in health economics, and current interest in studying real-world resource allocation decisions. He has experience across a wide range of quantitative and qualitative methods.  Hareth is head of the Health Economics Unit, Associate Editor for Social Science and Medicine, and sits on the shortlisting panel for ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 415 8483
Email
h.aljanabi@bham.ac.uk

Dr Clare Davenport

Dr Clare Davenport

Clinical Associate Professor
Joint Head of Education for the Department of Applied Health Sciences

Institute of Applied Health Research

Clare Davenport is an Associate Clinical Professor working in the Department of Applied Health Sciences. 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 ...

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 8036
Email
c.f.davenport@bham.ac.uk

Professor Laura Jones

Professor Laura Jones

Professor of Qualitative and Mixed Methods Women’s Health Research
Public Health and Women’s Health Team Lead Department of Applied Health Sciences
Deputy Director of Post Graduate Studies (Mental Health and Wellbeing) College of Medicine and Health

Institute of Applied Health Research

Professor Laura Jones is a Professor of Qualitative and Mixed Methods Women’s Health Research in the Department of Applied Health Sciences (AHS) and also Public Health and Women’s Health Team Lead in AHS.  Laura is also Deputy Director of Post Graduate Studies (Mental Health and Wellbeing) in the College of Medicine and Health.

Laura’s research focusses ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3024
Email
l.l.jones@bham.ac.uk

Professor Louise J Jackson

Professor Louise J Jackson

Professor of Health Economics and Health Policy

Institute of Applied Health Research

Louise Jackson is a Professor within the Department of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Birmingham.

Louise is Co-Head of Education for the School of Health Sciences which involves overseeing education provision across all postgraduate and undergraduate programmes for the Institute.

Louise has broad range of methodological experience and expertise. She is interested in applied ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6486
Email
l.jackson.1@bham.ac.uk

Professor Jon Deeks

Professor Jon Deeks

Professor of Biostatistics

Institute of Applied Health Research

Jon Deeks is Professor of Biostatistics and leads the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation Research Group in the Department of Applied Health Sciences. 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 ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 5328
Email
j.deeks@bham.ac.uk

Professor R. Katie Morris

Professor R. Katie Morris

Head of Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit
Professor of Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine
Honorary Consultant Maternal Fetal Medicine, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital

Institute of Applied Health Research

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 Head of Department for Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, she is responsible for leading, developing and ...

Telephone
PA: Amanda Davies +44 (0)121 414 7507
Email
r.k.morris@bham.ac.uk

Professor Dion Morton

Professor Dion Morton

Barling Professor of Surgery
Head of Surgery

Institute of Applied Health Research

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 Department of Cancer and Genomics.

Dion was appointed Officer of the Order ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 371 8910

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

Institute of Applied Health Research

Krish is the Joint-Director for the Centre for Health Data Science and Deputy Director for the Department of Applied Health Sciences 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

Professor Jonathan Reinarz

Professor Jonathan Reinarz

Director, Social Studies in Medicine

Institute of Applied Health Research

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 ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 415 8122
Email
j.reinarz@bham.ac.uk

Dr Alice M Turner

Dr Alice M Turner

Professor of Respiratory Medicine
Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician
Department Director of Research Knowledge and Transfer

Institute of Applied Health Research

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 ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 371 3885 (University Secretary)/+44 (0)121 424 0325 (NHS Secretary)
Email
a.m.turner@bham.ac.uk