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Read more at: Mike Kelly

Mike Kelly

Professor Kelly is a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge and a member of St John’s College. Between 2005 and 2014 he was the Director of the Centre for Public Health at the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) where he led the teams producing public health guidelines. While at NICE he appeared regularly on the Today Programme and BBC, ITV and Sky Television. He has advised the House of Commons Health Select Committee and been a witness before parliamentary committees on a number of occasions.


Read more at: Rajwin Kanagarajah

Rajwin Kanagarajah

I'm a medical doctor from Malaysia currently pursuing my MPhil in Population Health Sciences at Cambridge. My interest lies in public health and more specifically in expanding AI/digital health use in the clinical setting.


Read more at: Chaorui Li

Chaorui Li

I'm a medical doctor in Public Health specialty training and Academic Clinical Fellow at UEA.

My research interests are in health inequity in cancer, tobacco control and young people's mental health, and have received prizes at international conferences and competitions in these areas.


Read more at: Anthony Torres-Ruesta

Anthony Torres-Ruesta

I am a versatile scientist with a strong background in virology and immunology, specializing in infectious diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential. My research career evolved during the COVID-19 crisis, shifting from laboratory-based investigations to a broader focus on global health. Now, my interest centers on science policy, pandemic preparedness and response, and ensuring equitable access to resources during health crises.


Read more at: Malik Malik

Malik Malik

A public health enthusiast with an interest in fostering health equity.


Read more at: Dr Shobhana Nagraj

Dr Shobhana Nagraj

Dr Shobhana (Shobi) Nagraj is an Assistant Professor of Primary & Community Care in the Department of Public Health & Primary Care. She works in partnership with the East London NHS Foundation Trust in the fields of Health Systems research and Implementation Science, with a focus on life course approaches to improving maternal child health. She is a co-theme lead for global health on the MPhil in Population Health Sciences.


Read more at: Dr Lois Kim

Dr Lois Kim

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.


Read more at: Case study: How health and care systems can improve ethnicity data collection to help combat inequality
Ethnicity data completion dashboard

Case study: How health and care systems can improve ethnicity data collection to help combat inequality

Here, we discuss an example of current efforts in the East of England to address the problem of completing ethnicity data.


Read more at: Yaning Wu

Yaning Wu

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.


Read more at: Giacomo Bignardi

Giacomo Bignardi

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.