Students
Rupa Chilvers
Background
As part of her training, Rupa completed a BSc in Psychology from the University of Bangor, Wales and an MSc in Psychological Research Methods from the University of Exeter. Her career started in the field of evidence-based health and social care, initially as a research assistant in the Centre for Evidence-Based Social Care before moving to University of Bristol to initiate a project on changing prescribing behaviour amongst Psychiatrists as part of an evidence-based psychiatry project. With an increasing interest in healthcare systems and influencing strategic decision-making, she took up a position within a regional health authority as a project leader in workforce development working across a number of hospitals in the South West of England. In her current position as a Senior Analyst/Director for Tangerine Bee Analysts, I have been contracted on a number of short-term projects across the healthcare sector. Her experiences in the last two years have included workforce analysis and strategy development, implementing small-scale research projects, and developing performance indicators at national level with a specific focus on public health.
Research
Rupas main drive in research is to seek out innovative solutions to inform strategic decisions today about tomorrow’s healthcare outcomes. Her main areas of research interests are forecasting healthcare requirements including human resources and technologies, operations research and the study of health systems, geographical factors impacting on healthcare service delivery, and role of technology in improving efficiency, resource utilisation and health outcomes. She started her part-time PhD in January 2007 on forecasting healthcare human resource demand for maternity and neonatal services in the United Kingdom. This project will seek to combine methodologies from operations research, health economics, and spatial analysis to inform workforce strategy development today to ensure a sufficient supply tomorrow. This project will identify secondary sources of information for estimating potential demand and supply and will include England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Richard Ma
Richard graduated in medicine from the University of Sheffield in 1995 and trained as a general medical practitioner in London. During this time, he gained experience in the disciplines of sexual & reproductive health and public health. He was awarded MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene in 2004 and has started the Doctorate of Public Health programme on a half-time basis at the School. He was awarded MRC/ESRC interdisciplinary studentship in 2007.
His interests are in primary care and sexual health. His DrPH thesis will focus on incentives to deliver sexual health in primary care.
He continues to work as a part-time general practitioner in North London.
Ali Tawfik-Shukor
Ali is currently a PhD student in the Health Services Research Unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine under the Teaching Studentship scholarship scheme. As a health services researcher with a multidisciplinary background, his interests are broad and cover topics related to the planning, funding, organization, management and delivery of health care. More specifically, he is interested in exploring healthcare governance and policy processes within the context of different constituencies using various regulatory regimes, as well as service delivery models for chronic disease integrated care. He is especially keen on promoting cross-national and cooperative learning through the use of multidisciplinary research, towards better-informed policymaking.
His project examines the impact of decentralization as a systems reform policy on the organization, management and delivery of Type 2 Diabetes Community-Based Integrated Care services in England, The Netherlands and Ontario, Canada. He possesses an HBSc (Analytical Chemistry, U. Toronto 2001), Masters of Biotechnology (U. Toronto, 2003) and an MSc in Health Services Research (Erasmus University, Rotterdam), and has worked in biotech/pharma project management and business development in Canadian industry and government.
Micky Wilmott
Micky graduated from Nottingham University with a BA(Hons) in Social & Cultural Studies and has a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Education & Health Promotion. She worked as a Health Promotion Specialist in the NHS and as the Health Policy Officer at Age Concern England. Following a period working as a researcher at the University of California San Francisco, Micky was a research associate at the National Patient Safety Agency in London. She also worked with Stephen Peckham on an impact assessment of the SDO Programme (2006).
Micky was awarded an ESRC(1+3) studentship at LSHTM to conduct research into the role of the voluntary organisation activity in the construction of local health services.
