People

The NPEU is staffed by a diverse range of highly skilled and high achieving professors, researchers, scientists, support staff and students from wide variety of backgrounds from both academia and industry. Many of our staff are experts and world-leaders in their fields.

Marian Knight

Director - NPEU; Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health

Staff

Hayley Acton

Trial Manager
Naseem Akhtar

PA
Fiona Alderdice

Senior Social Scientist and Co-Director NIHR Policy Research Unit Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care
Benjamin Allin

Post Doctoral Clinical Research Fellow in Paediatric Surgery
Harindra Amarasinghe

Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Adriana Amorim Francisco

Research Nurse
Zainab Aslam

Trial Administrator/Data Coordinator
Vasha Bari

SurfON Trial Manager
Diya Bhandari

Medical Statistician
Helen Campbell

Health Economics Researcher
Claire Carson

Senior Researcher in Epidemiology
Sarah Chamberlain

Graphic & Multimedia Designer
Kudzai Chinjekure

UKOSS Programme Coordinator
Victoria Coathup

NDPH Intermediate Fellow
Christina Cole

Senior Trials Manager
Pip Crowley

Research Nurse
Zoe Daskalopoulou

Project Data Co-ordinator/Administrative Assistant
Katherine De Blanger

Events Organiser
Victor Diaconu

UKOSS Programme Coordinator
Megan Douthwaite

Listen2Baby Researcher
Alan Downs

DOLFIN Data Co-ordinator, UKOSS OpenClinica developer
Abby Edwards

MAMA Trial Administrative Assistant and Data Coordinator
Allison Felker

Senior Researcher - MBRRACE-UK
Gracia Fellmeth

NDPH Clinical Research Fellow
Kate Fitzpatrick

Senior Researcher in Statistical Epidemiology
Michaela Graham-Travis

Clinical Trials Administrator
Shan Gray

Trial Manager, MAMA Trial
Claudia Grimaldo

CSOR Programme Manager
Pollyanna Hardy

Director of NPEU Clinical Trials Unit
Sian Harrison

Social Scientist
Ian Henderson

Clinical Research Fellow
Madeleine Hurd

Data Manager, NPEU CTU/ Study Coordinator, ToSCiN
Evan Ireson-Dalton

Full-stack Software Developer
Ann Kennedy

Clinical Trial Manager
Emma Kentish

Policy Research Unit Coordinator
Mishal Kiani

Administrative Assistant for MBRRACE-UK
Andy King

Head of Trials Programming
Andy Kirk

Design, Publications and Website Manager
Jenny Kurinczuk

Emeritus Professor of Perinatal Epidemiology
Rachel Lawrence

Data Assistant for MBRRACE-UK
Ramon Luengo-Fernandez

Associate Professor - Senior Researcher in Health Economics
Jennifer Maclellan

Qualitative Researcher
Jenny McLeish

Health Services Researcher
David Murray

Senior Trials Programmer
Manisha Nair

Senior Research Fellow
Tabitha Newman

Midwifery Researcher
Elizabeth Nuthall

Trial Manager
Heather O'Connor

Senior Statistician
Melanie O'Connor

Programme Manager UKNeS/UKOSS/BAPS-CASS
Maria Quigley

Professor of Statistical Epidemiology
Rema Ramakrishnan

Senior Statistician
Svetlana Ratushnyak

Researcher in Health Economics
Scott Redpath

C# Developer and Data Manager
Oliver Rivero-Arias

Associate Professor of Health Economics - Senior Health Economist
Jemima Roberts

MBRRACE-UK Maternal Programme Data Coordinator
Miguel Francisco Rodrigues das Neves

Senior C# Developer and Data Manager
Charles Christoph Roehr

Clinical Advisor to NPEU CTU
Rachel Rowe

Associate Professor and Senior Health Services Researcher
Pauline Rushby

SurfON Administrative Assistant/Data Coordinator
Shalimar Sahota

MBRRACE-UK Data Assistant
Oliver Shaw

Administrative Assistant
Lisa Shelton

Personal Assistant
Anshita Shrivastava

C# Programmer and Web Developer
Peter Smith

MBRRACE-UK senior programmer
Rachel Smith

Maternal Programme Manager - MBRRACE-UK
Victoria Soriano

Epidemiologist/Health Researcher
Kayleigh Stanbury

Head of Operations, NPEU CTU
Catherine Thompsett

Clinical Trial Administrator
S'thembile Thusini

Implementation Scientist
Ruth Tunn

Research Facilitator
Nicola Vousden

Clinical Lecturer in Maternal and Child Population Health
Usharani Wahengbam

Trial Manager
Richard Welsh

Senior Software Developer
Pamela White

Personal Assistant
Joy Wiles

Quality Assurance Manager