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Mrs Rachel Abudu

Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Public Health & Policy

United Kingdom

As a doctoral candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, I research how research funders assess the impact of their investments. My thesis will examine the health and research impacts of an international, multi-funder portfolio of cancer research and how well the impacts of this portfolio align with both the needs of patients and carers and are primed for policymaking.

Within the area of research impact assessment, I am interested in the ways in which research funders approach evaluation and impact assessment of their research portfolios. Some of my special areas of interest include big-data tools that may be available to aid funders and researchers in performing impact assessment, the relationship between impact and research relevance/priority setting, and the use of patient and public involvement within impact assessment of research portfolios. I have also undertaken work to look at ways in which funders could improve the standardization and implementation of research impact assessments to make them more methodologically rigorous and useful.

Within the area of evidence-bases for public health policymaking, I am interested in the ways in which research portfolios and their associated impacts can be examined as evidence-bases for public health policymaking, and if and how research funders may be able to prime their research funding for the development of better evidence bases for policymaking.

Affiliations

Department of Health Services Research and Policy
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Research

Research impact assessment

Evaluation

Co-production in research funding and assessment

Research Area
Evaluation
Impact evaluation

Selected Publications

What funders are doing to assess the impact of their investments in health and biomedical research.
ABUDU, R; OLIVER, K; BOAZ, A;
2022
Health research policy and systems
Trends in International Cancer Research Investment 2006-2018.
ABUDU, R; Bouche, G; Bourougaa, K; Davies, L; Duncan, K; Estaquio, C; Font, AD; Hurlbert, MS; Jackson, P; Kroeskop-Bossenbroek, L; Lewis, I; Mitrou, G; Mutabbir, A; Pettigrew, CA; Turner, L; Weerman, A; Wojtanik, K;
2021
JCO Global Oncology
Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Personalized Genomic Medicine Research: Current Literature and Suggestions for the Future.
Callier, SL; ABUDU, R; Mehlman, MJ; Singer, ME; Neuhauser, D; Caga-Anan, C; Wiesner, GL;
2016
BIOETHICS
A Global Cancer Project Map Integrating Global Cancer Statistics to Guide International Efforts
Chisti, A; Sharara, N; Gupta, M; Craycroft, J; Rosenberg, I; Morgan, C; Duncan, K; ABUDU, R; Andre, B; Silkenson, S; Silva, J; Bhatt, A; Trimble, T; Huang, F;
2016
Journal of Global Oncology
Mapping global cancer research and control in areas of low and middle income: The need for shared data on a single, interactive platform.
Chisti, A; Sharara, N; Gupta, M; Rosenberg, I; ABUDU, R; Morgan, C; Duncan, K; Silkensen, S; Craycroft, J; Silva, J; Andre, B; Trimble, EL; Bhatt, AS; Huang, FW;
2016
Journal of Clinical Oncology
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