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Jabez Barnabas | Fiona Beyer | Katie Brittain | Dawn Craig | Barbara Hanratty | Andrew Kingston | Patience Kunonga | Oleta Williams | Anosua Mitra | David Sinclair | Gemma Spiers
Jabez Barnabas
Jabez is a Research Associate – Information Specialist for the Information Specialist Team, NIHR Innovation Observatory (IO) and the Evidence Synthesis Group (ESG).
Jabez Barnabas is a graduate in Science and Library and Information Science with 17 years of experience as Trial Search Coordinator, Information Specialist for various Evidence Synthesis projects in Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
He has previously worked for the Cochrane Centre in India at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India and then the Data Science, IQVIA Company in Chennai, India.
Jabez has been assisting various systematic reviews projects and data-driven KOL identification projects in India.
Jabez is interested in information retrieval methods, evidence synthesis and analysis, and he is interested in learning the AI methods for information retrieval.
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Fiona Beyer
Fiona is a member of the Evidence Synthesis Team and the NIHR Innovation Observatory, based in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University.
She has a background as an information specialist and has worked on systematic reviews for many years on a range of topics relating to health, public health and social care. She previously worked for Cochrane and the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. Her PhD is entitled “Evidence synthesis methods to inform decisions about complex behaviour change interventions in public health: brief alcohol interventions as a case study”.
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- Email: fiona.beyer@ncl.ac.uk
Katie Brittain
Katie is Professor of Applied Health Research & Ageing in the Population Health Sciences Institute.
Katie is a social gerontologist with an educational background in sociology. This has enabled her to pursue her research interests in the social impact that illness can have on the lives of older people.
During her time as an applied health researcher, Katie has researched and published widely about the impact of ill health on older people and their carers.
More recently her work has focused on how aspects of the physical, social and technological environment pose challenges and opportunities for older people and their wider community.
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Dawn Craig
Dawn leads the Evidence Synthesis Group and is co-Lead of the Health Economic Group in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University. Dawn is also the Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Innovation Observatory.
Dawn has a background in health economics and evidence synthesis, with over 20 years of research experience. She has a portfolio of funding from a range of funders including, NIHR, DHSC, Public Health England, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, European Commission and WHO.
Her research interests focus on areas of evidence synthesis, including systematic review and meta-analysis, network meta-analysis and decision modelling/economic evaluation; the application of evidence synthesis techniques to deliver timely and appropriate research; the role and usefulness of evidence in decision making; methods and value of futures/horizon scanning; and the use of AI tools to support evidence synthesis and horizon scanning.
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- Email: dawn.craig@newcastle.ac.uk
Barbara Hanratty
Barbara is Director of the Healthy Ageing Policy Research Unit and Professor of Primary Care and Public Health in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University. She leads the Multimorbidity, Ageing and Frailty theme in the North East and North Cumbria NIHR Applied Research Collaboration, and is co-lead of a research theme in the Newcastle NIHR Patient Safety Research Collaboration.
Barbara has degrees in medicine, public health and health economics and her research training was supported with fellowships from the Medical Research Council and NIHR. She now leads a programme of work concerned with healthy ageing, and the health and wellbeing of older adults. Her work cuts across health and social care, with key themes of inequalities, care homes and home care, end of life, loneliness and frailty. She supervises students at PhD, masters and undergraduate level.
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Andrew Kingston
Andrew is a Chartered Statistician and Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University’s Population Health Sciences Institute. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, a master’s degree in Medical Statistics, and a doctorate in Epidemiology.
Andrew’s primary technical focus is on developing statistical methods to analyse complex longitudinal data, with a particular interest in investigating the pathways that lead to disability and dependency in older people. In addition, Andrew has a specialisation in calculating health expectancies and examining the factors that contribute to disparities in the duration of healthy living.
Andrew utilises longitudinal data to better understand how age-related functional decline can be constrained to the shortest possible period before death. He is the Principle Investigator for several high-profile healthy ageing grants, and he shares his expertise by teaching both undergraduate and post-graduate students, as well as supervising several PhD students.
Ultimately, Andrew’s goal is to improve the quality of life for older adults by compressing their period of dependency and age more healthily.
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- Email: andrew.kingston@ncl.ac.uk
Patience Kunonga
Patience Kunonga is a Research Associate and member of the Evidence Synthesis Group within the Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University.
Patience works across the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing and the NIHR Innovation Observatory. The NIHR Innovation Observatory, hosted by Newcastle University, is the national horizon scanning research centre.
Patience’s research interests include health inequality, health inequity and evidence synthesis, and is currently working towards a PhD to develop a bespoke framework for the incorporation of assessments of health inequalities and/or inequities within evidence synthesis.
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Oleta Williams
I am Research Assistant and Information Specialist within the Evidence Synthesis Team, based in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University. I have been a part of many different projects relating to health and social care including systematic, rapid, and scoping reviews.
I have a background in Biomedical Sciences and I completed a master’s degree in Information Science with Data Analytics at Northumbria University, Newcastle.
My research interests are in text mining and automation.
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- Email: oleta.williams@io.nihr.ac.uk
Anosua Mitra
Anosua is the Senior Research Administrator for the Healthy Ageing PRU team at Newcastle University.
She has 22 years’ experience working in university research supporting a variety of health and social research projects. She has been based within the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University since 2012.
While working full-time for the Families & Social Capital ESRC Research Group at London South Bank University, she completed a part-time MA in Media Writing. She spent three years living and working in Kolkata, India where she taught English and supported applicants preparing for the IELTS exam.
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- Email: anosua.mitra@newcastle.ac.uk
David Sinclair
David is a Senior Research Associate at the Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, where he specialises in statistics and computational modelling of healthy ageing. David’s research interests include frailty, healthy life expectancies and the application of routinely collected electronic health records.
David previously worked at the University of Pittsburgh, where, where he developed simulations of infectious disease spread, drug use and mortality. He holds a master’s degree in physics and a doctorate in Astrophysics.
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Gemma Spiers
Gemma has worked in applied health and social care policy research since 2005.
Having worked previously at Teesside University and York University, Gemma moved to Newcastle University in 2016.
Her current research interests include understanding and mitigating the impact of material deprivation on staying independent in later life, socioeconomic inequalities in health, unmet social care needs, and identifying ways to improve equitable access to health and social care for older populations.
Gemma is a mixed methods researcher with a particular focus on systematic review methodology. Gemma is also the Ageing Lens Lead in the NIHR Innovation Observatory at Newcastle University.
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