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Dr Sainsbury is a consultant diabetologist in Glasgow. He has a longstanding interest in data analysis and coding, leading to a number of projects in the areas of mathematical modelling and machine learning.

He is currently an NHS Research Scotland Senior Fellow, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡.

Jo Sartori is an experienced programme manager with a speciality in research development and international stakeholder relations and engagement. In recent years Jo has developed and managed a large portfolio of global health projects worth over £30million such as the . Jo works with Professor Richard Lilford, CBEand other ...

Katie Scandrett is a statistician based in the Test Evaluation Research Group within the Department of Applied Health Sciences.

Her research interest is primarily in diagnostic test evaluation.

Fiona is a sociologist with expertise in qualitative research methodologies she is leading on WP1 of the Quantifying, Understanding and Enhancing Relational Continuity of Care (QUERCC) study.

Lena is a joint-PhD candidate in Health Economics at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ 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. 

Igor is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Unit, specialising in public sector economics, social policy, the economics of social care, and health economics. He is particularly interested in the feasibility of outsourcing social services to independent providers, the effectiveness of external care quality assessment systems, and the role of competition and transparency in health and social ...

Dr Karen Shaw is an experienced Research Fellow and Research Psychologist in the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research where she manages Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) for the . This is a collaboration with the University of Oxford that seeks to develop new kinds of cell therapies for blood ...

Mark's role as an Honoray Research Associate primarily consists of supporting the British Heart Foundation with the production of key statistics and analysis. The British Heart Foundation is the nation's heart charity and the largest independent funder of cardiovascular research. They collect the most comprehensive statistics on the effects, prevention, treatment, costs and causes of ...

After a number of years as a Market Researcher in the private sector, Jenny has spent the last ten years in public sector research roles, latterly as a public health research specialist. Her current role as Knowledge Exchange Facilitator combines working in a local authority public health information team, with researching epidemiology and health geography in the Institute of Applied Health ...

Diane is studying for a Doctorate in Applied Health Research with the College of Medical and Dental Sciences. Looking at the social implications of long-term chronic illness, her PhD – using qualitative research methods – investigates how people with Malygic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome build and maintain social and community networks and relationships, both online and ...

Dr Shukla is a Clinical Research Specialty Lead (CRSL) for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) with experience of research delivery within Primary Care settings including General Practice.  

Dr Shukla is a GP Partner at Eve Hill Medical Practice, in Dudley, a CQC ‘outstanding’ rated practice. 

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Dr Ajit Singh is an environmental scientist with particular interest in air pollution measurements and management. His research and associated activities are focused on improving air quality and related knowledge in both developed and developing countries through interdisciplinary and life-cycle approaches by better understanding the climate, health and socio-economic consequences of poor air ...

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Alice Sitch is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics working in the Department of Applied Health Sciences and leads the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and prediction Models (BESTEAM) research group. The team is internationally recognised for their work on test and prediction research and cluster trial methodology. Alice is the deputy lead for the Data, Diagnostics and ...

Magdalena Skrybant is Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Lead for NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West Midlands (ARC WM).  Magdalena’s role ensures that there is meaningful involvement with patients and the public in applied health research.

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Anita Slade PhD is the ITM Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes(PRO) research at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡. She is experienced in evaluating and developing patient reported outcome measures in a range of clinical settings.   She is experienced in using Rasch analysis as a tool for evaluating health outcomes and educational assessments.   She ...

Gemma is a Trials Management Team Leader at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU).

Leonard Smith is a social historian with a special interest in the history of psychiatry and mental health institutions from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. His research has focussed primarily on England and the former British West Indian colonies. It encompasses the development of both private madhouses and public lunatic asylums, those who established and managed them, and the ...

Dr Kym Snell is an Associate Professor in Biostatistics and works within the Department of Applied Health Sciences. She is a member of the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and prediction Modelling (BESTEAM) research group.

Kym’s interest is in applied and methodology research relating to risk prediction models. This includes development, validation and updating of ...

Tom Sorahan has published more than 60 first-authored peer-reviewed papers on the identification and quantification of occupational cancer risks.

Dr Matthew South is a Research Software Engineer with twenty plus years of experience developing and supporting web applications for clinical and scientific research.  He is also the technical director of Openclinical CIC, a community interest company that supports the development of the Open PROforma System (OPS) for developing, sharing and deploying Clinical Decision Support Systems. In ...

Tommer Spence is a Research Fellow on the Perinatal Culture and Leadership Programme (PCLP) Evaluation, a project linked to the Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West Midlands maternity theme. The PCLP Evaluation is using ethnographic methods to explore how an NHS England intervention has impacted leadership and working culture in maternity and neonatal units across the country.

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Charlotte is a research fellow in the Health Economics Unit. She is currently working on the CONNECT project as qualitative researcher conducting in-depth interviews on the role of remote consultations in Sexual and Reproductive health services in the UK.

Andrew Stevens is Professor emeritus of Public Health and former Head of Department and Division (of Primary Care, Public and Occupational Health).

Andrew is interested in Health Services Research including health care needs assessment, health technology assessment and horizon scanning. He has edited the 4 volume Health Care Needs Assessment Series, and the Advanced Handbook of Methods in ...

Anuradhaa is a MSc Health Research Methods graduate from the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡. She works as a Research Fellow (Health Informatics) at the Institute of Applied Health Research. 

She conducts routinely collected primary care data based epidemiological studies by designing and performing data analysis from datasets extracted using the automated system for epidemiological studies (ACES) ...

Fatima is currently working on MEDAL trial as a data manager within primary care clinical trials team.

    

Dana Sumilo is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.

Her main research interests are in the areas of health services research, policy evaluation, maternal and child health and infectious disease epidemiology.

She is the Chief Investigator of the NIHR HTA funded project (16/150/01) “Long term impact of giving ...

Hannah is a Medical Statistician based within the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU).

Hannah works on a wide portfolio of clinical trials in areas including Primary Care, Women’s Health, Surgery and Prehabilitation.

Dr. Sun studied his BSc in mathematics at Shanxi university and MSc in Applied Mathematics at Sichuan University and had been working as a lecturer in higher education in China for about 10 years.

He then moved to the UK, completing a PhD in Pure Mathematics at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ in 2003 and an MSc in Medical Statistics at the University of Leicester in 2008.

Dr Zhaozhang Sun’s research lies at the intersection of digital health communication, chronic disease management, and behavioural health interventions, with a strong interdisciplinary focus and a commitment to translating research into impactful, real-world applications. She specialises in harnessing social media, digital engagement strategies, and co-produced interventions to enhance ...

Dr Muslim Abbas Syed is a public health specialist, health economist and medical educationist.