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Wolfson Institute of Population Health

Clinical Effectiveness Group

  

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UNIT LEAD John Robson

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

  • CEG brings research and NHS partners together, builds capacity in health data science through national and local collaborations, and develops future leaders through doctoral and other postgraduate training.

  • Wellcome Trust Health Data in Practice Our doctoral training programme applies human-centred data research to health and care data, drawing on concepts, disciplines and methods underpinning qualitative and quantitative evaluation and decision-making in real-world settings.

  • Health data informatics and tools Our dashboards visualise health data from across the North East London Integrated Care System – covering 2.2 million patients - informing our research and providing valuable insight for NHS primary care commissioners and the region’s eight local authorities. Our data-driven searches, smart templates and pop-up alerts are used by 272 GP practices to improve direct patient care and make it easier to implement new programmes and meet targets.

  • Innovative data linkage We develop algorithms and innovative methods to link primary care data to other sources – including genetic research, the national cancer registries, geospatial information and school records on height and weight – to build a deeper understanding of population health.

  • Precision Medicine A major new research programme in collaboration with Barts Cancer Institute to use electronic patient records and linked information, derived from disease registers, tissue samples and imaging, to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of long-term conditions including cancers.

  • Reducing delay and inequalities in childhood immunisations We are researching inequalities in immunisation uptake, using geospatial data to map hotspots of infection susceptibility, and developing in-practice software that uses electronic health records to identify children, efficiently and equitably, for routine vaccinations.

  • Improving cardiovascular, respiratory and child health through research analyses of linked electronic health records and innovative decision support tools for GP practices across North East London.

OUR TEAM

CLINICAL LEADS
Professor Carol Dezateux
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Data Science, CEG Clinical Lead
c.dezateux@qmul.ac.uk 

Professor Rohini Mathur
Professor/Reader of Health Data Science 
r.mathur@qmul.ac.uk

Dr John Robson
Clinical Reader in Primary Care Research & Development, CEG Clinical Lead
 
Dr Chris Carvalho
GP, NIHR Fellow, CEG Clinical Lead
chris.carvalho@qmul.ac.uk 
 
Dr Mina Goyal
GP, CEG Clinical Lead
m.goyal@qmul.ac.uk 
 
Dr Michael O'Hanlon
GP, CEG Clinical Lead
m.ohanlon@qmul.ac.uk 

Dr Milena Marszalek
GP, CEG Clinical Lead, Childhood Immunisations
m.marszalek@qmul.ac.uk

Dr Asad Ashraf
GP/Clinical Director, CEG Clinical Lead

Dr Shaine Mehta
GP, CEG Clinical Lead

Dr Michael Naughton
GP, CEG Clinical Lead

Dr Maximillian Keech
GP, CEG Clinical Lead
 
MANAGEMENT
Keith Prescott
CEG Manager
 
Science and Impact Communications Manager

Dr Eleanor Groves
HDiP Programme Manager
e.groves@qmul.ac.uk 

Mary Thomas
Programme Manager, Precision Medicine
mary.thomas@qmul.ac.uk  

PRACTICE FACILITATION AND SUPPORT

Ana Gutierrez
Senior Primary Care Facilitator - Childhood Immunisation Lead
a.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk  

Karishma Bhuruth
Clinical Facilitator
k.d.bhuruth@qmul.ac.uk  

Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge

Jayne Callaghan
Senior Primary Care Facilitator - Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge, Newham
j.callaghan@qmul.ac.uk

Ranjan Patel
Primary Care Facilitator - Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge
ranjan.patel@qmul.ac.uk

Billie-Jo Corfield
Primary Care Facilitator - Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge
b.corfield@qmul.ac.uk 

Tracey Gibbons
Primary Care Support Officer - Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge
t.gibbons@qmul.ac.uk

City and Hackney

Jo Tissier
Senior Primary Care Facilitator - City & Hackney
j.r.tissier@qmul.ac.uk

Luis Rivas
Primary Care Facilitator - City & Hackney
l.o.rivastaquias@qmul.ac.uk 
 
Shazia Shahzad
Primary Care Facilitator - City & Hackney
shazia.shahzad@qmul.ac.uk  

Newham

Pritt Kallah
Primary Care Facilitator - Newham
p.kallah@qmul.ac.uk 

Tower Hamlets

Toyin Omisore
Primary Care Facilitator - Tower Hamlets
t.omisore@qmul.ac.uk  

Khairun Moolankunnan
Primary Care Support Officer - Tower Hamlets
k.moolankunnan@qmul.ac.uk 

Waltham Forest

Fae Wilkins
Senior Primary Care Facilitator - Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest
f.wilkins@qmul.ac.uk 

 
 
RESEARCH
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
 
Honorary Clinical Reader in Primary Care Development

Isabel Dostal
Research Assistant
i.dostal@qmul.ac.uk 

Hajar Hajmohammadi
Senior Data Analyst
h.hajmohammadi@qmul.ac.uk 

Crystal Williams
Senior Data Analyst
crystal.williams@qmul.ac.uk 

Dr Anna De Simoni
GP, Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care
a.desimoni@qmul.ac.uk 

Dr Gill Harper
UKRI Rutherford postdoctoral research fellow, REAL Child Health
g.harper@qmul.ac.uk 

Meredith Hawking
ESRC LISS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, REAL Child Health
m.k.d.hawking@qmul.ac.uk 

Natalia Concha
Qualitative Research Fellow, ActEarly
n.concha-arango@qmul.ac.uk 

Nicola Firman
Health Data Scientist, REAL Child Health
nicola.firman@qmul.ac.uk 

Dr Stuart Rison
GP, Clinical Research Fellow, REAL Health CVD
s.rison@qmul.ac.uk 

Marta Wilk
PhD student, REAL Child Health
marta.wilk@qmul.ac.uk 

Hira Tanvir
Data Analyst
h.tanvir@qmul.ac.uk 

Shahad Aljifri
Data Analyst
s.aljifri@qmul.ac.uk 

 

DATA ANALYSIS AND INFORMATICS

Kelvin Smith 
Senior Data Analyst

kelvin.smith@qmul.ac.uk 

Martin Sharp 
Data Analyst

m.a.sharp@qmul.ac.uk  

Zaheer Ahmed
Informatics Lead
zaheer.ahmed@qmul.ac.uk 

Thomas Bradshaw
Data Analysis Assistant
t.bradshaw@qmul.ac.uk 

Rumana Malik 
Data Analysis Assistant 
r.malik@qmul.ac.uk 

Tommy Lay
Data Analysis Assistant
t.lay@qmul.ac.uk 

Fahmida Akthar
Data and Communications Assistant
fahmida.akthar@qmul.ac.uk 

 

ADMINISTRATION

Shirley Dryden 
Administrator
s.a.dryden@qmul.ac.uk 

Laura Dexter 
Operations Administrator
l.dexter@qmul.ac.uk 

Charlotte Yeo
Primary Care Support Administrator

c.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

 

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