BWHHS Staff
Professor Shah Ebrahim 
Shah Ebrahim is principal investigator of the British Women's Heart and Health Study and was director of the British Regional Heart and Study of men from 1992 to 1998. His interests are in the causation and prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Professor Debbie Lawlor 
Debbie Lawlor (Professor of Epidemiology, University of Bristol and Visiting Academic, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) is a co-director of the BWHHS and has worked with Professor Shah Ebrahim on the study since its inception. Her main research interests are concerned with the genetic and life course epidemiology of insulin resistance, diabetes and cardiovascular disease and with methods to minimize bias and cofounding in epidemiology.
Dr Juan P Casas
Dr Juan P Casas trained in medicine in Colombia and continue to train in cardiovascular science. In the UK, Dr Juan P Casas worked initially in Centre for Clinical Pharmacology at UCL and joined LSHTM in April 2005. Dr Juan P Casas joined the British Women's Heart & Health Study in April 2009 and currently is in charge of the research activities within the BWHHS. In conjunction with Professors Shah Ebrahim and Debbie Lawlor, they form the executive board of the BWHHS team. He is also Deputy-Editor of the Cochrane Heart Group. He currently teaches on extended epidemiology and genetic epidemiology. Dr Juan Pablo-Casas is also the co-organizer of the non-communicable disease epidemioloy unit. His major interest is in disease aetiology in non-communicable disease with focus on cardiovascular disease and pre-eclampsia.
Dr David Prieto 
David Prieto-Merino is working in the School since February 2007. Before he spent 8 years as an associate lecturer in Statistics at the University of Alcala de Henares in Spain (home town of Cervantes, the famous writer of "Don Quixote") and as a freelancer consultant. He is now a lecturer at the Medical Statistics Unit with an interest in Bayesian methods that he tries to apply whenever it makes sense...
Dr Caroline Dale 
Caroline Dale joined the British Women’s Heart & Health Study as Research Fellow in January 2010. Before this she was studying for her PhD in life-course trajectories of alcohol use at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine where she also gained her MSc in Demography & Health with distinction. Her research interests are in the lifestyle causes of cardiovascular disease with a particular interest in alcohol epidemiology. She is currently on maternity leave till 2013.
Dr Evelyn Nuesch 
Evelyn Nuesch has solid experience and a strong research interest in the epidemiology of chronic diseases and in methodological and statistical aspects of cohort studies, clinical trials and meta-analyses. She holds a PhD in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, a master degree in statistics and a master degree in Biology. Before joining LSHTM in 2011, she had worked as a research fellow and statistician at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Minkyoung Choi
Minkyoung Choi studied nursing science at Ewha Womens University in South Korea. After graduation, she worked as a nurse for about one year in South Korea. In 2009-2010 she took the MSc Social Epidemiology and Public Health course at UCL. For her thesis, she worked on aetiological association between depression and CHD. She is now working as a Research Assistant at the BWHHS team with an interest in cardiovascular disease and social inequalities.
Antoinette Amuzu 
Antoinette Amuzu is the Study Coordinator for the BWHHS. Antoinette's background in Social Sciences. After a degree in Geography at Queen Mary's, University of London, Antoinette completed a postgraduate degree in Globalisation and Development studies. She has recently completed a piece of research for the Consortium of Street Children in three African countries.
Christina Gutierrez 
Christina Gutierrez joined the BWHHS in November 2009 as a Fieldwork Coordinator. Her role is to conduct the day-to-day aspects of the new fieldwork/data collection of the next wave of the study. Following her BA degree from the University of California-Riverside in 2006 and a 2-year Research Assistantship at the University of California-Los Angeles, she received her MSc degree in Social &Applied Psychology from the University of Kent-Canterbury.
Manwai Lam
Manwai's background is in Social Sciences. She studied Social Policy at the University of Sussex. She then trained as a social worker at the University of Kent and followed by a career in social services. After a career change, she worked as an academic secretary at St George's Hospital, University of London before joining the BWHHS team in 2009. She provides daily admin support to the team and data entry from the current data collection.
