Dr Tiffany E Gooden BSc, MPH, PhD

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Research Fellow in Global Health

Contact details

Email: g.tiffany@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @TiffanyGooden3

Address: University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Tiffany is a research fellow in global health with a focus in epidemiology and health systems research using both quantitative and qualitative methods. She has worked on various projects in Brazil, China, Nepal, Tanzania, The Gambia, Sri Lanka and the UK. Tiffany’s PhD was focused on the epidemiology of and health services for people living with HIV and comorbidities of non-communicable diseases including mental health conditions. Tiffany has a strong interest in improving the health and wellbeing of people often marginalised and disadvantaged (e.g. people living with HIV) and preventing and reducing the global burden of poor mental health.

Tiffany has an active role within the Department which includes small group teaching for undergraduates on the public health and epidemiology modules, supervising masters and PhD students, leading research tasters for 1^st year medical students, and being a member of the Institute’s People and Culture Working Group.

Qualifications

PhD in Applied Health Research 2024. University of Birmingham
Masters in Global Health 2016. University of Birmingham
BSc in Psychology 2013

Biography

Tiffany completed her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 2013. During this time, she worked as a part-time research assistant in the TRiCAM Laboratory in the Department of Psychology (i.e. Translational Research in Cognitive and Affective Mechanisms) on projects aiming to understand the decision-making processes of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. After graduating, Tiffany took time off to travel solo through various African and Southeast Asian countries.

In 2016, Tiffany completed her master’s in global health from the University of Birmingham. She then worked as a senior research associate for Picker Institute Europe, a non-profit focused on person-centred care. She worked closely with the NHS, CQC and advisory groups and led national studies aimed to monitor and benchmark person-centred quality of care for mental health, emergency, inpatient, maternity and cancer care in the UK.

Tiffany began working for the University of Birmingham on a casual contract in 2018; she worked with Dr Semira Manaseki-Holland on various maternal and child health research projects in LMICs. Tiffany joined the University in 2020 as a full-time research fellow, first working with the Brazilian and Sri Lankan partners on the NIHR Global AF Group with Prof G Neil Thomas (Co-PI) among many others at the University. Tiffany then worked on various projects in LMICs regarding critical care, primary healthcare, maternity care and gender-based violence.

Tiffany is in the process of applying for a post-doc fellowship and grant applications to further her research on HIV and associated comorbidities including mental health in the UK and LMIC settings.

Teaching

Public Health and Epidemiology small group undergraduate teaching MBChB

Postgraduate supervision

Vethanayagam Antony Sheron; PhD lead supervisor

Doctoral research

PhD title: Epidemiology of and health services for people living with HIV and comorbidities of non-communicable diseases, including mental health conditions.

Research

Research interests

Improving the wellbeing and support for marginalised groups, disadvantaged populations and people with chronic infectious diseases (e.g. HIV, TB)
Interventions to reduce and prevent mental health symptoms in low-resourced settings
Understanding and addressing the complex psychosocial factors related to poor mental health and stigma

Current grants

NIHR Global Health Research Group on Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children. Co-investigator; Country co-lead, Sri Lanka.
DIGIPATHS Study: Digitally Integrated Care Pathways for Multiple-Long-Term-Conditions Management in Primary Care, Sri Lanka. Co-investigator; Work package co-lead, process evaluation.

Other activities

Member of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Member of the International AIDS Society

Publications

Recent publications

Article

NIHR Global Health Research Group on Atrial Fibrillation Management, Paschoal, E, Olmos, RD, Gooden, TE, Lotufo, PA, Bensenor, I, Jolly, K, Lip, GYH, Neil Thomas, G, Greenfield, S, Lane, D & Goulart, AC 2025, 'Coping with a chronic condition that requires lifelong medication: a qualitative study with people living with atrial fibrillation in São Paulo, Brazil', BMJ open, vol. 15, no. 6, e088226. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088226

NIHR Global Health Research Group on Atrial Fibrillation Management, Kanesamoorthy, S, Abdali, Z, Gooden, T, Sheron, VA, Uruthirakumar, P, Kodippily, C, Kumarendran, B, Thomas, GN, Nirantharakumar, K, Lip, G, Guruparan, M, Haniffa, R, Surenthirakumaran, R, Beane, A, Subaschandran, K & Jowett, S 2025, 'Cost-effectiveness of three screening strategies for atrial fibrillation in Sri Lanka: A decision-tree modelling analysis using community-based prevalence data', BMJ Global Health.

Freer, GB, Cooper, J, Nirantharakumar, K, Thomas, GN & Gooden, TE 2025, 'Trends in prevalence of anaemia among people living with HIV in the UK: 20 cross-sectional analyses using population-based electronic primary healthcare records', HIV medicine. https://doi.org/10.1111/hiv.70044

Sheron, VA, Surenthirakumaran, R, Gooden, TE, Y. H. Lip, G, Thomas, GN, J. Moore, D, Nirantharakumar, K, Kumarendran, B, Subaschandran, K, Kanesamoorthy, S, Uruthirakumar, P, Guruparan, M & NIHR Global Health Research Group on Atrial Fibrillation Management 2024, 'Diagnostic accuracy of digital technologies compared with 12-lead ECG in the diagnosis of atrial fibrillation in adults: A protocol for a systematic review', PLOS One, vol. 19, no. 5, e0301729. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301729

Gooden, TE, Mkhoi, ML, Mwalukunga, LJ, Mdoe, M, Senkoro, E, Kibusi, SM, Thomas, GN, Nirantharakumar, K, Manaseki-Holland, S & Greenfield, S 2024, 'Exploring the preferred integration approach for HIV, diabetes and hypertension care and associated barriers and facilitators in Central Tanzania: An exploratory qualitative study', PLOS Global Public Health, vol. 4, no. 7, e0003510. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003510

Gunathilaka, N, Gooden, T, Cooper, J, Flanagan, S, Marshall, T, Haroon, S, D'Elia, A, Crowe, F, Jackson, T, Nirantharakumar, K & Greenfield, S 2024, 'Perceptions on artificial intelligence-based decision making for coexisting multiple long-term health conditions: A protocol for a qualitative study with patients and healthcare professionals', BMJ open, vol. 14, e077156. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077156

de Goes, ACG, Souza, KAS, Tunes, G, Alencar, AP, Varella, AC, Gooden, TE, Lip, GY, Santos, IS, Lotufo, PA, Benseñor, IM & Goulart, AC 2024, 'Predictive value of functional disability scales among stroke survivors: A long-term mortality evaluation in a Brazilian stroke cohort', Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, vol. 33, no. 1, 107487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2023.107487

The Collaboration for Research, Implementation and Training in Critical Care in Asia and Africa (CCAA), KC, S, Gooden, TE, Aryal, D, Koirala, K, Luitel, S, Haniffa, R & Beane, A 2024, 'The burden of anxiety, depression, and stress, along with the prevalence of symptoms of PTSD, and perceptions of the drivers of psychological harms, as perceived by doctors and nurses working in ICUs in Nepal during the COVID-19 pandemic; a mixed method evaluation', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 24, no. 1, 450 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-10724-7

NIHR Global Health Research Group on Atrial Fibrillation Management, Vethanayagam, S, Gooden, TE, Uruthirakumar, P, Kanesamoorthy, S, Guruparan, M, Subaschandran, K, Lip, GYH, Nirantharakumar, K, Thomas, GN, Surenthirakumaran, R, Kumarendran, B & Manaseki-Holland, S 2024, 'The pathway to diagnosis and follow-up care for atrial fibrillation in Sri Lanka: a descriptive longitudinal study [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]', NIHR Open Research, vol. 4, 63. https://doi.org/10.3310/nihropenres.13497.2

Gooden, TE, Wang, J, Zemedikun, DT, Taylor, S, Greenfield, S, Manaseki-Holland, S, Nirantharakumar, K & Thomas, GN 2023, 'A matched cohort study investigating premature, accentuated and accelerated aging in people living with HIV', HIV Medicine, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 640-647. https://doi.org/10.1111/hiv.13375

Gooden, TE, Mkhoi, ML, Mdoe, M, Mwalukunga, LJ, Senkoro, E, Kibusi, SM, Thomas, GN, Nirantharakumar, K, Manaseki-Holland, S & Greenfield, S 2023, 'Barriers and facilitators of people living with HIV receiving optimal care for hypertension and diabetes in Tanzania: a qualitative study with healthcare professionals and people living with HIV', BMC Public Health, vol. 23, no. 1, 2235. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17069-6

Goulart, AC, Varella, AC, Tunes, G, Alencar, AP, Santos, IS, Romagnolli, C, Gooden, TE, Thomas, GN, Lip, GYH, Olmos, RD, Lotufo, PA & Bensenor, IM 2023, 'Cerebrovascular risk factors and their time-dependent effects on stroke survival in the EMMA cohort study', Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, vol. 56, e12895. https://doi.org/10.1590/1414-431X2023e12895

Gooden, T, Wang, J, Goulart, AC, Varella, AC, Tai, M, Sheron, VA, Zhang, H, Zhong, J, Kumarendran, B, Nirantharakumar, K, Surenthirakumaran, R, Benseñor, IM, Guo, Y, Lip, G, Thomas, GN, Manaseki-Holland, S & Hao, W 2023, 'Generalisability of and lessons learned from a mixed-methods study conducted in three low- and middle-income countries to identify care pathways for atrial fibrillation', Global Health Action, vol. 16, no. 1, 2231763. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2023.2231763

Comment/debate

Gooden, TE & Whitlock, G 2025, 'Chemsex must not be overlooked in Europe’s HIV prevention strategy', The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, vol. 56, 101423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2025.101423

Gooden, T, Nirantharakumar, K & Thomas, GN 2023, 'Author Reply: Letter to the editor on a matched cohort study investigating premature, accentuated, and accelerated aging in people living with HIV', HIV Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1111/hiv.13560

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