Evidence synthesis

I am a Senior Research Associate based in the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit in the Dept of Public Health & Primary Care, where I also hold an affiliation to the NHS Blood & Transplant Research Unit. My research focuses on the use of simulation modelling to evaluate novel public health strategies both in terms of clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness.

Yaning (she/her) is a PhD student at the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Behaviour. Using world-first large-scale datasets of voluntary blood donors in England, she is investigating the short- and long-term health effects of donation and hopes to generate evidence that will impact upon policy and practice in donor selection, care, and communications. Yaning has a background in epidemiology, social determinants of health, data science, and causal inference.

Giacomo is a research associate in the Department of Psychology.

Giacomo’s research centres on social inequalities in educational and mental health outcomes in childhood and adolescence. He has a particular interest in psychometrics and data science. Before his post-doctoral appointment, Giacomo completed his PhD at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge.

I am an applied infectious diseases epidemiologist. My research focusses on emerging and high consequence infectious diseases, covering aspects such as risk factor identification, development of novel surveillance systems and outbreak response mechanisms.

I am a Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE)-funded Policy Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy, working with the Public Health Directorate at Cambridgeshire County Council on their Health in All Policies strategy. As part of this work, I am focusing on the development and implementation of equity-focused Health Impact Assessments to reduce health inequalities across the County in the long-term.

Isla Kuhn, is Head of Medical Library Services since 2014, with extensive experience in teaching, research support, and co-authoring systematic reviews including cross-disciplinary topics. She is embedded librarian at THIS Institute, as well as being named on several successful grant applications. Isla was awarded Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in April 2019.