Professor Aileen Clarke MD FRCGP FFPH

• BA in Physiology, University of Oxford, 1976
• BM BCh in Medicine, University of Oxford, 1979
• DRCOG in Obs&Gyn, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1982
• DCH in Child Health, Royal College of Physicians, 1983
• MRCGP in General Practice, Royal College of General Practitioners, 1983
• MSc in Public Health, Community Medicine, University of London, 1988
• MFPHM in Public Health, Faculty of Public Health Medicine, 1990
• MD in Health Services Research, University of London, 1993
• FFPH in Public Health, Faculty of Public Health, 1997
• FHEA Fellowship, Higher Education Academy, 2002
• FRCGP in Public Health, Royal College of General Practitioners, 2011
• Service Medal Prize in Public Health, Faculty of Public Health, 2016 (Awarded with distinction and Chadwick Daley Prize)

Professor Aileen Clarke trained in General Practice and worked in East London, before changing career to become a specialist in Public Health.  She worked as a Public Health academic at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for 12 years, managing the Masters in Public Health and helping to design, introduce and run the first Service Delivery and Organization funding  body – the predecessor to the Health and Social Care Delivery Research Programme, before briefly moving to Queen Mary, University of London and then to the University of Warwick, becoming head of the Division of Health Sciences, Chair of the Faculty of Medicine (where I reorganised Warwick’s faculty structure) , and member of Warwick Council. At Warwick she developed a 40+ multidisciplinary health services research group. 

Professor Aileen Clarke founded Warwick Evidence which undertakes technology assessments and reviews for UK and international policy makers, and she now acts as their senior academic advisor. She was Deputy Director and Public Health lead for the National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration West Midlands which is a five-year initiative (2019-2024) with a mission to improve health and care services. More recently she has been working in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care health Sciences with Prof Trish Greenhalgh’s team investigating remote and digital care in general practice. 

Professor Aileen Clarke has extensive teaching experience, having designed and taught modules on epidemiology and screening, health care evaluation, health technology assessment, critical appraisal, public health, and health leadership. She is experienced in supervising both doctoral and master’s students through to completion. Within Warwick, she was highly successful in helping junior staff achieve fellowship funding and advance their careers. She was instrumental in helping staff achieve 12 personal fellowships, including four members who, having started with her in a junior research capacity, have achieved success as professors and research leaders in their own right

Professor Aileen Clarke's research interests lie at the interface between Public Health and Health Services Research, focusing on areas where it is often possible to achieve the most impact. She has a strong record of leading research teams and securing research funding, having attained chief investigator or co-investigator grant funding of over £40 million since 2014. She has led over 200 publications and reports, often serving as the first, second, or anchor (corresponding) author for most of her publications.

Professor Aileen Clarke is a past President of the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health and recently stepped down as Chair of the Picker Institute, a national health charity dedicated to achieving the highest quality person-centred care for all, always. She is an expert public speaker and networker, experienced in working at board level and representing herself and her institutions both nationally and internationally.