Jasmina joined the RPT in January 2018. With undergraduate, MSc and DPhil degrees in applied mathematics, Jasmina’s research focuses on applying different quantitative techniques to explore a variety of biological and physiological systems, comminicable and non-communicable diseases and answer emerging public health and healthcare questions. In conjunction with her role within the RPT, Jasmina also holds Honorary Lectureships at the Department of Mathematics and Institute for Global Health at UCL and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), as well as an Honorary Academic Researcher Post at Public Health England.
Category: Team-Core
This category is used to when creating a ‘Post’ that acts as as a profile page for a new member of the CLAHRC Core Team.
Dr Elena Pizzo
Elena is a Senior Health Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics and Management from Padua University, a Master degree in Economics and Management of Health Care Services from Ferrara University and a first degree in Economics from Padua University.
Prior to coming to UCL she was a Research Associate at the Imperial College Business School, working on the economic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for Northwest London.
She previously held a research post at the Department of Economics, Ferrara University, where she collaborated to a multi-year research project and undertook an economic evaluation of a Regional Colorectal Cancer Screening Program.
Dr Helen Barratt
Helen is a consultant in public health medicine and a health services researcher. She is a member of the CLAHRC research partnership team, and Deputy Director of the CLAHRC Academy. Her research uses qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate health care and public health services.
Professor Rosalind Raine
In the last 5 years Rosalind Raine has been awarded £16M (as PI and co-applicant) in AHR grants from NIHR, MRC, Wellcome Trust and other funders. Her research is of value to policy makers due to its diversity (spans acute & chronic conditions and all NHS settings), representativeness (national datasets,long time periods) and applied nature, allowing direct policy translation.
Her analyses have influenced national inequalities policies, EU policy makers, the Cabinet Office, the GLA, LAs and PCTs. She has held national leadership positions including the National Chair of the Heads of Academic Departments of Public Health (2010-2014). Her commitment to internationally competitive research which makes a major contribution to NHS, patients and the public is demonstrated by her membership of the: REF2014 Sub Panel for Public Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care; MRC Career Development Panels (2005-12); NIHR Programme Grant Experts Panel (2007-12) and the MRC Health Services & Public Health Research Board (2005-8). As National and Regional Chair of the UK Clinical Research Network (CRN) NIHR Health Services Research (HSR) Speciality Group (2009-11), she established networks of applied researchers across London Universities to promote research collaborations.
Nationally she worked with the CRN to achieve more appropriate inclusion of HSR in the CRN. Raine’s effective leadership and commitment to capacity building, led her to being asked to establish and lead the UCL Department of Applied Health Research (2012-). Current grants in the Department total £59.3M (as lead and co-applicants).
Prof Mike Roberts
Mike Roberts is an NHS Consultant Respiratory Physician at The Princess Alexandra Hospital and Community Services for West Essex. He also holds posts as Clinical Academic Lead for Population Health for UCLParters Academic Health Science Network, Clinical Director of the National Asthma and COPD Audit Programmes, and is hosted within the Institute of Primary Care and Population Health at Queen Mary University of London.
Dr Nora Pashayan
Nora is a Clinical Reader in Applied Health Research / Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine and has a clinical background with specialty training in both Family Medicine and Public Health Medicine. Her research is in cancer screening, particularly personalised screening. She is the graduate tutor, and the educational supervisor for public health specialty registrars at the UCL Department of Applied Health Research. http://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=NPASH45
Dr Elena Pizzo
Elena is a Senior Health Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics and Management from Padua University, a Master degree in Economics and Management of Health Care Services from Ferrara University and a first degree in Economics from Padua University.
Prior to coming to UCL she was a Research Associate at the Imperial College Business School, working on the economic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for Northwest London.
She previously held a research post at the Department of Economics, Ferrara University, where she collaborated to a multi-year research project and undertook an economic evaluation of a Regional Colorectal Cancer Screening Program.
Dr Silvie Cooper
Silvie is a Teaching Fellow at the CLAHRC Academy. She has a PhD in Health Sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, where she also lectured and tutored while conducting her research. Before joining UCL, she completed a Research Fellowship at the University of Michigan, USA and was the Research Lead at a child health charity in London, UK. Her research interests include management of chronic pain, digital health, and patient education, using qualitative, mixed methods, and translational research approaches
Dr Fiona Aspinal
Fiona worked as a registered nurse in elderly care and palliative care settings and went on to complete a BA (Hons) in Social Policy and a MA in Public Policy and Administration. After conducting research on assessing outcomes of palliative care at Kings College London, Fiona completed her PhD in Politics/Health Sciences at the University of York.
Fiona has joined the North Thames CLAHRC this year after working as a Research Fellow in the Social Policy Research Unit, University of York since 2006, where she undertook complex evaluations of systems, services and interventions across health and social care settings using qualitative and mixed-methods approaches.
