The Clinical Effectiveness Group (CEG) uses primary care health data for research, with a focus on reducing health inequalities and improving population health. Our academics, primary care clinicians, health data scientists, analysts and primary care facilitators turn knowledge into action which improves clinical care. Our work involves interdisciplinary teams, and includes the perspectives of patients, and health care professionals, and values team science. We are founding partners of the Discovery Data Service, which integrates data from GPs, hospitals, and community settings in near real-time.
Our research is supported by major funders, including Barts Charity programme grants: ‘REAL Health - Research Enabled Learning Health Systems’ and ‘Precision Medicine’. These use health data for research to improve equitable disease prevention and treatment. We lead the Wellcome Trust PhD in science programme ‘Health Data in Practice’ and are members of the NIHR School of Primary Care Research. We lead the Wolfson Institute Digital and Health Data Science theme. More information about our work is available here.
OUR TEAM
Ana GutierrezSenior Primary Care Facilitator - Childhood Immunisation Leada.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk
Karishma BhuruthClinical Facilitatork.d.bhuruth@qmul.ac.uk
Jayne CallaghanSenior Primary Care Facilitator - Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge, Newhamj.callaghan@qmul.ac.uk
Ranjan PatelPrimary Care Facilitator - Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridgeranjan.patel@qmul.ac.uk
Billie-Jo CorfieldPrimary Care Facilitator - Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridgeb.corfield@qmul.ac.uk Tracey GibbonsPrimary Care Support Officer - Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridget.gibbons@qmul.ac.uk
Jo TissierSenior Primary Care Facilitator - City & Hackneyj.r.tissier@qmul.ac.uk
Luis RivasPrimary Care Facilitator - City & Hackneyl.o.rivastaquias@qmul.ac.uk Shazia ShahzadPrimary Care Facilitator - City & Hackneyshazia.shahzad@qmul.ac.uk
Pritt KallahPrimary Care Facilitator - Newhamp.kallah@qmul.ac.uk
Toyin OmisorePrimary Care Facilitator - Tower Hamletst.omisore@qmul.ac.uk
Khairun MoolankunnanPrimary Care Support Officer - Tower Hamletsk.moolankunnan@qmul.ac.uk
Fae WilkinsSenior Primary Care Facilitator - Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forestf.wilkins@qmul.ac.uk
Isabel DostalResearch Assistanti.dostal@qmul.ac.uk
Hajar HajmohammadiSenior Data Analysth.hajmohammadi@qmul.ac.uk
Crystal WilliamsSenior Data Analystcrystal.williams@qmul.ac.uk
Dr Anna De SimoniGP, Clinical Lecturer in Primary Carea.desimoni@qmul.ac.uk
Dr Gill HarperUKRI Rutherford postdoctoral research fellow, REAL Child Healthg.harper@qmul.ac.uk
Meredith HawkingESRC LISS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, REAL Child Healthm.k.d.hawking@qmul.ac.uk
Natalia ConchaQualitative Research Fellow, ActEarlyn.concha-arango@qmul.ac.uk
Nicola FirmanHealth Data Scientist, REAL Child Healthnicola.firman@qmul.ac.uk
Dr Stuart RisonGP, Clinical Research Fellow, REAL Health CVDs.rison@qmul.ac.uk
Marta WilkPhD student, REAL Child Healthmarta.wilk@qmul.ac.uk
Hira TanvirData Analysth.tanvir@qmul.ac.uk
Shahad AljifriData Analysts.aljifri@qmul.ac.uk
Kelvin Smith Senior Data Analystkelvin.smith@qmul.ac.uk
Martin Sharp Data Analystm.a.sharp@qmul.ac.uk
Zaheer AhmedInformatics Leadzaheer.ahmed@qmul.ac.uk
Thomas BradshawData Analysis Assistantt.bradshaw@qmul.ac.uk
Rumana Malik Data Analysis Assistant r.malik@qmul.ac.uk
Tommy LayData Analysis Assistantt.lay@qmul.ac.uk
Fahmida AktharData and Communications Assistantfahmida.akthar@qmul.ac.uk
Shirley Dryden Administrators.a.dryden@qmul.ac.uk
Laura Dexter Operations Administratorl.dexter@qmul.ac.uk
Charlotte YeoPrimary Care Support Administratorc.yeo@qmul.ac.uk
CONTACT
CEG administration: Shirley Dryden s.a.dryden@qmul.ac.uk
Primary care support enquiries: Charlotte Yeo c.yeo@qmul.ac.uk
Primary care web resources and dashboards: Fahmida Akthar fahmida.akthar@qmul.ac.uk
Health Data in Practice PhD: Eleanor Groves e.groves@qmul.ac.uk
We are based in in the Abernethy Building, Whitechapel Campus. Our postal address is Yvonne Carter Building, 58 Turner Street, London E1 2AB