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Anita is Personal Assistant and Research Administrator to Professor Melanie Calvert and the Centre for Patient Reported Outcome Research within the Institute of Applied Health Research, University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡.

Gareth is an NHS consultant in occupational respiratory medicine and interstitial lung diseases in Birmingham, and leads the supra-regional NHS occupational lung disease service.  Gareth's research broadly concerns the aetiology and identification of occupational airways diseases and pneumoconiosis.

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Jingya is a research fellow working at the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Xin Wang is a Project Engagement Officer within a Chinese project unit in the Department of Applied Health Sciences at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡.

Xin’s role involves relationship development with partner institutes, communication, and administrative support. Xin coordinates activities and ensures project success through effective teamwork.

Derek Ward is a Reader in Public Health and Medical Education and holds an honorary contract with Public Health England. He teaches on a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and he has a particular interest in medical education, selection and assessment.

Currently, Derek leads the popular Master’s in Public Health (MPH) programme, co-leads the intercalated Public Health ...

Jane has a specialist interest in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), both in supporting patients and the healthcare staff that care for this population. Jane has worked within respiratory medicine since 2000 in a variety of clinical and teaching roles across primary, community, secondary, tertiary, health care settings. Jane maintains clinical practice, whilst also ...

Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Health Sciences working on applied statistics in public health and healthcare. Dr Watson's current research looks at methods of evaluation in low resource settings including cluster trial and survey methodology particularly using Bayesian methods. Current grants/projects include evaluation of water and sanitation interventions in ...

Sara is a registered midwife specialising in childbirth related perinea trauma with a special interest in obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASI).  As well as working at Birmingham Women's & Children's Hospital as Specialist Midwife – Perineal Trauma, Sara champions midwife-led translational research and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives in 2016 in ...

Katinka is an Anthropologist with interests in Medical Anthropology, Political Anthropology, the Anthropology of Development and Social Change and political ecology. Her research has focused particularly on Latin America and, more recently, western Africa.

She currently works as a Qualitative Research Fellow on the MaaCiwara Project,a large-scale trial of an intervention focusing on the ...

Indrakantha is a post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Global Health unit based in the Department of Applied Health Sciences. He is a public health physician and is currently working on Trauma Registry related studies in several countries.

Rebecca is a medical statistician based in the BESTEAM research group. Her main research interests lie in prognosis and prediction, with a focus on improving the reporting and development of prediction modelling. Rebecca has also been involved in many applied health research projects, mainly using large data from electronic health records. 

Adrian Wilcockson has been working within the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) programming team since 2003. 
This team creates and supports bespoke database applications for trials run by the unit. These are typically SQL Server/ASP.NET systems for large, multi-centre/international phase 3 studies.

Dr Stuart Wildman is a former lecturer in the School of Nursing within the University and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Social Studies in Medicine group.

Professor Andrew N. Williams PhD FRHistS is a consultant community paediatrician, medical historian, archive curator, playwright and film maker. He was trained in paediatrics/ paediatric neurodisability in Birmingham under Dr Geoff Debelle, Dr William Whitehouse and the late Dr S.H. Green.

• Since 1999, Andrew has had an honorary affiliation with the History of Medicine Unit, firstly with ...

Eleanor Williams is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Unit. She is currently working on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded E-MOTIVE project which aims to evaluate the implementation of early detection and the use of the WHO MOTIVE 'first response' treatment bundle for postpartum haemorrhage.

Brian Willis is an MRC Clinician Scientist in Primary Care.

This divides his time between working in clinical practice as a GP and being a research investigator where his principal interest is in diagnostic test research.

Amie Wilson is a Research Fellow in Global Maternal Health and Midwife. Amie has real passion for improving care for women in resource limited settings. Amie’s PhD examined interventions to reduce maternal death in low-and-middle income countries (supervised by Professor Arri Coomarasamy and Professor Christine MacArthur). Amie’s work in evidence synthesis has achieved publications in ...

David is the I.T. Manager for the Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivor Studies (CCCSS). He started his career in Oxford in 1982 and moved to the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ in 1998. He has been an author on over 20 peer-reviewed publications in the field of childhood cancer epidemiology.

Dr Annette Wood is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Institute of Applied Health Research. Her substantive employer is where she is a Consultant in Public Health. She works with NHS England/Improvement both locally in the Midlands and nationally where she provides public health advice for Specialised Services Commissioning. She has an interest in training in ...

Katherine Woolley is a Global Challenges Doctoral Researcher, in the Institute of Applied Research, taking a mixed-methods approach to researching effective health interventions for household air pollution in urban Rwanda. She holds a Masters of Public Health (2018) and a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Geoscience (2017) both from Cardiff University

Katherine’s research interest revolve around ...

Rebecca Woolley is a Senior Statistician within Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit with experience in clinical trials, from the design at grant application stage, through to the final analysis.

Rebecca is an Honorary Research Fellow for the four-year AHRC-funded project, ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injuries and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’.

Rebecca is a historian of medicine and of Quakers. Her research and publications centre on the history of psychiatry, mental health, neurosurgery, neurodiversity, and First World War medicine and disability. She has worked with ...