PhD Students

Nicola is a postgraduate student currently working on a qualitative study exploring the use of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) in patients receiving haemodialysis.

 

Kumarendran is pursuing a split site PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health course focusing his research on polycystic ovary syndrome, androgen excess and cardio-metabolic outcomes.

He is a Board Certified consultant in Community Medicine in Sri Lanka.

Kumarendran is also Senior Lecturer in a Medical school in Sri Lanka.

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 ...

Dr Chandan is an Academic Clinical Lecturer on the West Midlands Public health registrar training scheme based at the University of Birmingham. His primary research focuses on a public health approach to abuse and violence. He has expertise in population health data science, data linkage and medical education. Joht completed doctoral work focussing on the outcomes of individuals who have suffered ...

Claire graduated with a BSc in Psychology from the University of Birmingham in 2015. Following this, for 12 months she worked for a charity and assisted in the management of a number of public health projects across the West Midlands. This experience motivated Claire to return to the University to complete a Masters in Public Health with a focus on global health.

Shortly before graduating from ...

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 ...

Satyam is a clinician and works in the area of Obstetrics and Gynaecology with particular interest in gynaecological cancer. He is currently working on the quality of life outcomes following surgery in advanced ovarian cancer and at the same time studying for  his MD. Satyam is passionate about improving and providing care for women with gynaecological cancer. Our research will provide an ...

Nakawala is a doctoral researcher within the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Her doctoral research is a multi-method study in which she investigates the relationship between energy poverty and child undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa. 

Nakawala also has prior research experience in the following areas:

• Maternal mortality in low and middle income countries
• Universal health ...

Mark has been working in the Health Economics Unit since November 2013. He is also affiliated with the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Unit on Global Surgery where he provides health economic input to the global surgery programme.

Mark is currently doing a PhD on exploring modelling methods for informing resource allocation decisions in Lower Middle Income Countries within the ...

Elaine O’Connell Francischetto is a Research Fellow and Doctoral Researcher in the NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care - West Midlands (CLAHRC-WM) team, working on Theme 4 – Chronic diseases.

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. 

An is a part-time doctoral student in the Institute of Applied Health Research.  He is interested in factors influencing hospital care quality judgements. His mixed-methods research is concerned with identifying the patient, reviewer and hospital-wide factors influencing hospital mortality case note reviewer care quality judgements. An wishes to identify to mitigate and combat the ...