Dr Clare Herd

Clare Herd

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Honorary Research Fellow

Contact details

Telephone
+44 121 415 9107
Email
c.p.herd@bham.ac.uk
Address
Public Health Building
College of Medicine and Health
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Clare Herd is a systematic reviewer working predominantly in the areas of Parkinson’s disease and headache. Her main responsibility is the undertaking of systematic literature searching to identify existing evidence as a basis for development of clinical trial proposals, grant applications and synthesis of the worldwide research evidence. 

Qualifications

  • PhD 2010
  • MChem 2005

Biography

Clare's background is in Chemistry and she achieved her undergraduate degree in 2005, followed by her PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Leeds, under Dr Julie Fisher researching the non-duplex folding states of the telomeric region of human DNA. She has worked for the last seven years as a systematic reviewer. Most of her work has used Cochrane methods to produce comprehensive reviews of interventions for neurological conditions. More recently she has been involved in processing qualitative data in the form of over 3500 responses to a patient and healthcare worker survey to determine research priorities for Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension.

Teaching

Clare teaches the Reviewing the Evidence module on the Research Methods Course run by BCTU three times a year.

Research

Research Themes

Parkinson Disease, Migraine, Systematic Reviews, Clinical Trials.

Research Activity

Migraine: Currently working on reviewing the evidence for botulinum toxin for migraine prophylaxis.
Parkinson’s disease: Currently working on reviewing the evidence for anti-depressive therapies for people with Parkinson’s disease. Recent work includes reviews of physiotherapy and of speech and language therapy interventions for people with Parkinson’s disease.

Publications

Herd CP, Tomlinson CL, Rick C, ScottonWJ, Edwards J, Ives N, Clarke CE, Sinclair A. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2018, Issue 6. Art. No.: CD011616.

Muzerengi S, Herd C, Rick C, Clarke CE. Parkinsonism & Related disorders 2016; 24: 3-7

Palin O, Herd C, Morrison KE, Jagielski AC, Wheatley K, Thomas GN, Clarke CE. Parkinsonism & Related disorders 2015 Mar;21(3):243-8.

Tomlinson CL, Herd CP, Clarke CE, Meek C, Patel S, Stowe R, Deane KHO, Shah L, Sackley CM, Wheatley K and Ives N (2014) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (In Press)

Tomlinson CL, Patel S, Meek C, Herd CP, Clarke CE, Stowe R, Shah L, Sackley CM, Deane KHO, Wheatley K and Ives N (2013) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 9

Tomlinson CL, Patel S, Meek C, Herd CP, Clarke CE, Stowe R, Shah L, Sackley C, Deane KHO, Wheatley K and Ives N (2012) . British Medical Journal 345:e5004

Herd CP, Tomlinson CL, Deane KHO, Brady MC, Smith CH, Sackley CM and Clarke CE (2012) . Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 8:CD002814

Herd CP, Tomlinson CL, Deane KHO, Brady MC, Smith CH, Sackley CM and Clarke CE (2012) . Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 8:CD002812

Fenna CP, Wilkinson VJ, Arnold JR, Cosstick R and Fisher J (2008) . Chem Commun (Camb) 14(30):3567-9