Dr Tiffany E Gooden BSc, MPH, PhD

Ms Tiffany Gooden

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Research Fellow in Global Health

Contact details

Email
g.tiffany@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Tiffany is a research fellow in global health with a focus in epidemiology and health systems research using both quantitative and qualitative methods. She has worked on various projects in Brazil, China, Nepal, Tanzania, The Gambia, Sri Lanka and the UK. Tiffany’s PhD was focused on the epidemiology of and health services for people living with HIV and comorbidities of non-communicable diseases including mental health conditions. Tiffany has a strong interest in improving the health and wellbeing of people often marginalised and disadvantaged (e.g. people living with HIV) and preventing and reducing the global burden of poor mental health.

Tiffany has an active role within the Department which includes small group teaching for undergraduates on the public health and epidemiology modules, supervising masters and PhD students, leading research tasters for 1st year medical students, and being a member of the Institute’s People and Culture Working Group.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Applied Health Research 2024. University 麻豆精选
  • Masters in Global Health 2016. University 麻豆精选
  • BSc in Psychology 2013 

Biography

Tiffany completed her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 2013. During this time, she worked as a part-time research assistant in the Laboratory in the Department of Psychology (i.e. Translational Research in Cognitive and Affective Mechanisms) on projects aiming to understand the decision-making processes of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. After graduating, Tiffany took time off to travel solo through various African and Southeast Asian countries.

In 2016, Tiffany completed her master’s in global health from the University 麻豆精选. She then worked as a senior research associate for Picker Institute Europe, a non-profit focused on person-centred care. She worked closely with the NHS, CQC and advisory groups and led national studies aimed to monitor and benchmark person-centred quality of care for mental health, emergency, inpatient, maternity and cancer care in the UK.

Tiffany began working for the University 麻豆精选 on a casual contract in 2018; she worked with Dr Semira Manaseki-Holland on various maternal and child health research projects in LMICs. Tiffany joined the University in 2020 as a full-time research fellow, first working with the Brazilian and Sri Lankan partners on the NIHR Global AF Group with Prof G Neil Thomas (Co-PI) among many others at the University. Tiffany then worked on various projects in LMICs regarding critical care, primary healthcare, maternity care and gender-based violence.

Tiffany is in the process of applying for a post-doc fellowship and grant applications to further her research on HIV and associated comorbidities including mental health in the UK and LMIC settings.

Teaching

  • Public Health and Epidemiology small group undergraduate teaching MBChB

Postgraduate supervision

Vethanayagam Antony Sheron; PhD lead supervisor

Doctoral research

PhD title
Epidemiology of and health services for people living with HIV and comorbidities of non-communicable diseases, including mental health conditions.

Research

Research interests 

  • Improving the wellbeing and support for marginalised groups, disadvantaged populations and people with chronic infectious diseases (e.g. HIV, TB)
  • Interventions to reduce and prevent mental health symptoms in low-resourced settings
  • Understanding and addressing the complex psychosocial factors related to poor mental health and stigma

Current grants 

  • NIHR Global Health Research Group on Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children. Co-investigator; Country co-lead, Sri Lanka.
  • DIGIPATHS Study: Digitally Integrated Care Pathways for Multiple-Long-Term-Conditions Management in Primary Care, Sri Lanka. Co-investigator; Work package co-lead, process evaluation.

Other activities

  • Member of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Member of the International AIDS Society

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Sheron, VA, Surenthirakumaran, R, Gooden, TE, Y. H. Lip, G, Thomas, GN, J. Moore, D, Nirantharakumar, K, Kumarendran, B, Subaschandran, K, Kanesamoorthy, S, Uruthirakumar, P, Guruparan, M & NIHR Global Health Research Group on Atrial Fibrillation Management 2024, '', PLOS One, vol. 19, no. 5, e0301729.

Gunathilaka, N, Gooden, T, Cooper, J, Flanagan, S, Marshall, T, Haroon, S, D'Elia, A, Crowe, F, Jackson, T, Nirantharakumar, K & Greenfield, S 2024, '', BMJ open, vol. 14, e077156.

de Goes, ACG, Souza, KAS, Tunes, G, Alencar, AP, Varella, AC, Gooden, TE, Lip, GY, Santos, IS, Lotufo, PA, Bense帽or, IM & Goulart, AC 2024, '', Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, vol. 33, no. 1, 107487.

The Collaboration for Research, Implementation and Training in Critical Care in Asia and Africa (CCAA), KC, S, Gooden, TE, Aryal, D, Koirala, K, Luitel, S, Haniffa, R & Beane, A 2024, '', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 24, no. 1, 450 .

NIHR Global Health Research Group on Atrial Fibrillation Management, Vethanayagam, S, Gooden, TE, Uruthirakumar, P, Kanesamoorthy, S, Guruparan, M, Subaschandran, K, Lip, GYH, Nirantharakumar, K, Thomas, GN, Surenthirakumaran, R, Kumarendran, B & Manaseki-Holland, S 2024, '', NIHR Open Research, vol. 4, 63.

Gooden, TE, Wang, J, Zemedikun, DT, Taylor, S, Greenfield, S, Manaseki-Holland, S, Nirantharakumar, K & Thomas, GN 2023, '', HIV Medicine, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 640-647.

Gooden, TE, Mkhoi, ML, Mdoe, M, Mwalukunga, LJ, Senkoro, E, Kibusi, SM, Thomas, GN, Nirantharakumar, K, Manaseki-Holland, S & Greenfield, S 2023, '', BMC Public Health, vol. 23, no. 1, 2235.

Goulart, AC, Varella, AC, Tunes, G, Alencar, AP, Santos, IS, Romagnolli, C, Gooden, TE, Thomas, GN, Lip, GYH, Olmos, RD, Lotufo, PA & Bensenor, IM 2023, '', Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, vol. 56, e12895.

Gooden, T, Wang, J, Goulart, AC, Varella, AC, Tai, M, Sheron, VA, Zhang, H, Zhong, J, Kumarendran, B, Nirantharakumar, K, Surenthirakumaran, R, Bense帽or, IM, Guo, Y, Lip, G, Thomas, GN, Manaseki-Holland, S & Hao, W 2023, '', Global Health Action, vol. 16, no. 1, 2231763.

Goulart, AC, Varella, AC, Gooden, TE, Lip, GYH, Jolly, K, Thomas, GN, Lotufo, PA, Greenfield, S, Olmos, RD, Bensenor, IM, Manaseki-Holland, S & NIHR Global Health Research Group on Atrial Fibrillation Management 2023, '', PLOS One, vol. 18, no. 10, e0292463.

Rashan, A, Beane, A, Ghose, A, Dondorp, AM, Kwizera, A, Vijayaraghavan, BKT, Biccard, B, Righy, C, Thwaites, CL, Pell, C, Sendagire, C, Thomson, D, Done, DG, Aryal, D, Wagstaff, D, Nadia, F, Putoto, G, Panaru, H, Udayanga, I, Amuasi, J, Salluh, J, Gokhale, K, Nirantharakumar, K, Pisani, L, Hashmi, M, Schultz, M, Ghalib, MS, Mukaka, M, Mat-Nor, MB, Siaw-frimpong, M, Surenthirakumaran, R, Haniffa, R, Kaddu, RP, Pereira, SP, Murthy, S, Harris, S, Moonesinghe, SR, Vengadasalam, S, Tripathy, S, Tolppa, T, Pari, V, Waweru-Siika, W, Minh, YL & The Collaboration for Research, Implementation and Training in Critical Care in Asia and Africa (CCAA) 2023, '', Wellcome Open Research, vol. 8, 29.

Wilson, L, Gracie, L, Kidy, F, Thomas, GN, Nirantharakumar, K, Greenfield, S, Manaseki-Holland, S, Ward, D & Gooden, T 2023, '', BMC Infectious Diseases, vol. 23, 120.

NIHR Global Health Research Group on Atrial Fibrillation Management 2022, '', ABC Cardiol.

Comment/debate

Gooden, T, Nirantharakumar, K & Thomas, GN 2023, '', HIV Medicine.

Review article

NIHR Global Health Research Group on Atrial Fibrillation Management, Uruthirakumar, P, Surenthirakumaran, R, Gooden, TE, Lip, GYH, Thomas, GN, Moore, DJ, Nirantharakumar, K, Kumarendran, B, Subaschandran, K, Kaneshamoorthy, S, Sheron, VA & Guruparan, M 2023, '', Systematic Reviews, vol. 12, no. 1, 52.