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Amanda Daley is a reader in behavioural medicine and leads the behavioural medicine team in primary care.  Her work is focused on investigating the effects of lifestyle interventions on health outcomes, particularly around women’s health.  She is the principal investigator on several on-going trials that are examining the effectiveness of physical activity and weight control ...

Sarah Damery has been a Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research since September 2008. She was initially part of the cancer research team within the Department of Primary Care Clinical Sciences and worked on a number of projects centred on cancer and chronic disease early diagnosis and screening uptake. 

From 2014 to 2019 Sarah was a research fellow in the chronic ...

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 ...

Professor Justine Davies' aim is to do research that informs development of health systems that deliver quality care in lower- or middle-income countries. All of her research aims to answer a policy relevant question and she often works with policy makers, including the WHO, to develop and answer questions of relevance to them. 

Professor Davies is passionate about capacity building, ...

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 .

Jon trained as a medical statistician, and has followed a career which has given him broad experience across health research through working ...

Professor Alastair Denniston is Professor of Regulatory Science and Innovation at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist at University Hospitals Birmingham NHSFT. He is a leader in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Health Technologies.

Professor Denniston and Dr Xiaoxuan Liu co-lead the AI & Digital Health Group, a research and policy ...

Renuka is a qualified clinician by background and is based in the Department of Applied Health Sciences at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ and at the Department of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes at Birmingham Children’s Hospital (BCH).

Her main research focus is in Type 1 Diabetes and rare disease (specifically Wolfram Syndrome and Thyroid Disorders).  She is specifically focussed ...

Andy is an Honorary Research Fellow for the Institute of Applied Health Research, University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡. Andy is  Lead Research Fellow for Breathe Well; an NIHR-funded Global Health Research Group on COPD in Primary Care. The aim of the programme is to foster research in primary care and the community to improve the diagnosis, management and prognosis of COPD patients in low and middle ...

Dr Emma Dickinson-Craig is pursuing a PhD researching air pollution interventions and maternal health in Mongolia.

Her main research interests are maternal health, environmental health and health systems in LMIC.

Jac Dinnes is a Senior Researcher in the Test Evaluation Research Group in the Department of Applied Health Sciences. Her main interests are in diagnostic test accuracy systematic reviews and in methodological research to identify and validate the best ways of designing and analysing studies to evaluate medical tests used for diagnostic and monitoring purposes. 

Dr Lavanya Diwakar clinical academic, with expertise in immunology and health economics. Lavanya is currently working with various colleagues across the midlands as a part of an NIHR development and skills enhancement fellowship.

 

Dr Alexandra Dobell is a research fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research.  She currently works across the NIHR funded EPIC study and as a Research Site Manager for the NAP SACC study.

Dr Lucy Doos is a senior trial manager at Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit.

Janine has considerable experience in conducting evidence syntheses, systematic reviews, meta-analyses and health technology assessments (HTA) to inform local and national healthcare decision making. Research outputs include reports commissioned by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme. Janine has an interest in ...