Claire Thompson, Daniel Lewis, Trisha Greenhalgh, Stephanie Taylor and Steven Cummins
Claire Thompson
Background in secondary and further education and teaching. She completed a PhD in Human Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Research interests include qualitative research methods, food, medical sociology and regeneration. Currently working as a Research Fellow on the ORiEL project (Olympic Regeneration in East London), which is five-year NIHR funded mixed-methods study investigating Olympic-led health and social regeneration in East London (www.orielproject.co.uk).
Research Fellow
Department of Environmental and Social Health Research
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1E 9SH
United Kingdom
Email: Claire.thompson@lshtm.ac.uk
Web: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/thompson.claire
Please direct correspondence about this article to Claire Thompson
Daniel Lewis
Background in Geography. He completed a PhD in Geographic Information Science at UCL. Research interests include spatial analysis, the role of place in public health, and regeneration. Currently working as a Research Fellow on the ORiEL project (Olympic Regeneration in East London), headed by professor Steven Cummins. Responsible for creating objective measures of individual environmental exposure, taking in a range of factors from access to parks and green spaces, via density of fast-food outlets, to characterising urban built form.
Research Fellow
Department of Environmental and Social Health Research
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1E 9SH
United Kingdom
Email: Daniel.lewis@lshtm.ac.uk
Web: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/lewis.daniel
Trisha Greenhalgh
An internationally recognised academic in primary health care and a non-principal general practitioner in north London. She joined Barts and the London Medical School in April 2010 to set up the Healthcare Innovation and Policy Unit within the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health. She gained her first degree in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University and later qualified in Medicine from Oxford University. She began her research career in laboratory science but retrained as a GP and worked at UCL for before transferring to Barts. Twitter @trishgreenhalgh
Professor of Primary Health Care and Co-Director
Global Health
Policy and Innovation Unit
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Yvonne Carter Building, 58 Turner Street, London E1 2AB
United Kingdom
Email: p.greenhalgh@qmul.ac.uk
Web: http://blizard.qmul.ac.uk/primary-care-and-public-health-staff/215-greenhalgh-trisha.html
Stephanie Taylor
Stephanie sits on the NICE Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee and is an expert advisor on self care of non-communicable diseases to the World Health Organization. She has led a number of systematic reviews of quantitative research evidence and is currently involved in a number of clinical trials of complex interventions in the community. She is an expert in chronic disease management, especially around chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure. Stephanie is also principal investigator on an NIHR programme grant looking at a novel self management intervention for chronic musculoskeletal pain (COPERS).
Professor in Public Health and Primary Care
Queen Mary University of London Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Blizard Institute, Yvonne Carter Building, 58 Turner Street London, E1 2AB
United Kingdom
Email: s.j.c.taylor@qmul.ac.uk
Web: http://blizard.qmul.ac.uk/primary-care-and-public-health-staff/323-taylor-stephanie.html
Steven Cummins
Background in geography with post graduate training in epidemiology (MSc) and public health (PhD). Steven has undertaken work as an ‘invited expert’ for the Food Standards Agency, Department of Health, Department for Transport, Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada, Scottish Government, US National Cancer Institute and the US National Academy of Science. He has been a full committee member of the Society for Social Medicine (2006"2009) and an appointed member of the Food Standards Agency Social Science Research Committee (2008"11).
Professor of Population Health & NIHR Senior Fellow
Department of Environmental and Social Health Research
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 15-17 Tavistock Place
London WC1E 9SH
United Kingdom
Email: Steven.cummins@lshtm.ac.uk
Web: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/cummins.steven
