Staff A-Z

Staff in the Department of Applied Health Sciences

Professor Melanie Calvert

Professor Melanie Calvert

Professor of Outcomes Methodology
NIHR Senior Investigator

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Professor Melanie Calvert, PhD, is Professor of Outcomes Methodology at the University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ UK. She is and Director of the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Researchwhich aims to optimize the use of patient reported outcomes (PROs) in clinical trials and routine care, to improve service delivery, ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 8595/PA: Anita Walker (0)121 414 3354.
Email
m.calvert@bham.ac.uk

Dr Hilary Causer

Dr Hilary Causer

Research Fellow

Department of Applied Health Sciences

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 ...

Email
h.causer@bham.ac.uk

Professor Joht Singh Chandan

Professor Joht Singh Chandan

Clinical Professor of Public Health
Health Inequalities Lead, Birmingham Health Partners
Honorary Public Health Consultant, NHS England

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Professor Chandan is a Clinical Professor of Public Health at the University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡. His primary research focuses on identifying and addressing health inequalities, supported through novel data science approaches.

To date, Joht has spent considerable time working on designing and delivering a public health approach to abuse and violence. This includes research into finding what works to ...

Email
j.s.chandan.1@bham.ac.uk

Mrs Versha Cheed

Senior Medical Statistician

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Versha Cheed is a Senior Statistician at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in the School of Health Sciences.

Versha works on a portfolio of clinical trials mainly in obstetrics and gynaecology as well as intraoperative care, social care and assessing medical, surgical and complex interventions.

 

Email
v.cheed@bham.ac.uk

Professor KK Cheng

Professor KK Cheng

Professor of Public Health and Primary Care

Department of Applied Health Sciences

KK Cheng (郑家强) has been Professor at the University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ 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.

 

Email
k.k.cheng@bham.ac.uk

Mr Peter Chilton

Mr Peter Chilton

Research Fellow

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Peter Chilton works as a Research Fellow and Communication Lead for the

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 ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 8288
Email
p.j.chilton@bham.ac.uk

Mrs Sopna Choudhury

Mrs Sopna Choudhury

Research Programme Manager

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Sopna is a highly motivated and versatile research professional with over 15 years of health research and 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 nationally ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7864
Email
s.m.choudhury.1@bham.ac.uk

Miss Bircan Ciytak

Miss Bircan Ciytak

Research Fellow
Teaching Fellow

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Bircan is a qualitative and mixed-method researcher specialising in Migration, Community Engagement, and Equity, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EEDI), with a particular focus on the identity and belonging of migrants without migration experience, and consensus methodology. Currently, Bircan is working with the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and prediction Models (BESTEAM) ...

Email
b.ciytak.1@bham.ac.uk

Professor Carl Clarke

Professor Carl Clarke

Professor of Clinical Neurology
Honorary Consultant Neurologist

Department of Applied Health Sciences

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).

 

Telephone
+44 (0)121 507 4073
Email
c.e.clarke@bham.ac.uk

Dr Joanne Clarke

Dr Joanne Clarke

Research Fellow

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Joanne Clarke is a Research Fellow (Research Design Lead) for the NIHR Specialist Centre for Public Health Research Support Service (RSS). 

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

 

Email
j.l.clarke@bham.ac.uk

Dr Henry Connor

Honorary Research Fellow

Department of Applied Health Sciences

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 ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 415 8174
Email
j.reinarz@bham.ac.uk

Mrs April Coombe

Mrs April Coombe

Information Specialist

Department of Applied Health Sciences

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

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 ...

Email
a.r.coombe@bham.ac.uk

Ms Fiona Cross-Sudworth

Ms Fiona Cross-Sudworth

Research Fellow

Department of Applied Health Sciences

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  implementation of the Better Birth (2016) ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 415 8182
Email
f.cross-sudworth@bham.ac.uk

Dr Francesca Crowe

Dr Francesca Crowe

Lecturer in Epidemiology and Health Informatics

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Francesca Crowe is an epidemiologist and health informatician with an interest in using health data to understand modifiable risk factors for common health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Francesca's other main area of interest is conducting data-enabled clinical trials in primary care that leverage health data collection and analysis to enhance the efficiency and ...

Telephone
+44 (0)7733450666
Email
f.crowe@bham.ac.uk

Dr Samantha Cruz Rivera

Dr Samantha Cruz Rivera

Research Fellow, Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes
Research Fellow at Demand Hub

Department of Applied Health Sciences

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 ...

Telephone
+44 0121 414 3354
Email
s.rivera@bham.ac.uk

Dr Carole Cummins

Dr Carole Cummins

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Carole Cummins is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Health Sciences 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 ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 8625
Email
c.l.cummins@bham.ac.uk