Rosalind Raine | |
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Awards | Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences 2020 |
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Institutions | University College London |
Rosalind Raine is a British applied health research scientist,public medicine doctor,professor of health care evaluation and the founding head of the Department of Applied Health Research at University College London (UCL). [1]
She has made major contributions to UK national health policy,particularly around health and health care inequalities and on service effectiveness.
Raine holds a BSc in Psychology and an MBBS in Medicine both from University College London (UCL),an MSc in Public Health Medicine and a PhD in Public Health,both from the London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). [1] [2]
She spent her early career training as a Junior Doctor in London,specialising in Public Health and she practiced as an honorary consultant in public health medicine in London between 1998 and 2005.
Raine also worked as an academic in Public Health:she was a Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Research Fellow (1997–2001),MRC Clinician Scientist (2001–2005) and then a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Public Health Career Scientist (2005–2010). [3] She joined UCL as a professor of health care evaluation in 2005.
Raine's expertise is in the design and examination of health service/public health interventions and policies,including digital health innovation,and of the determinants of implementation of evidence-based care. She has a particular interest in the measurement of health inequalities and in designing interventions to reduce the social gradient in health. Her research has been implemented nationally and informed the UK Government's health inequalities policies.[ citation needed ]
She was Chair of UK Heads of Academic Departments of Public Health,2010–2014; [4] a member of the HEFCE Research Excellence Framework Panel for her specialty (2011–2014), [5] has advised on health policy internationally and regionally and is a member of the Lancet Commission on The Future of the NHS. [6]
Raine was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2020,selected by the British Medical Association as one of 29 national role models in academic medicine and by NIHR as one of the country's leading-edge scientists. [3] [7] She has also been selected as an NIHR Senior Investigator. [8]
She has been involved in grants totalling £120 million, [2] has over 200 publications and an h-index of 41. [9] Key programmes include:
Director of NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) and NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC),North Thames (Europe's largest partnership of world leading applied health and care researchers). [10] [11]
Vice Director of NIHR Policy Research Unit:Cancer awareness,screening and early diagnosis. [12]
Raine has advised many national and international bodies including:
The Medical Research Council (MRC) is responsible for co-coordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom. It is part of United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI),which came into operation 1 April 2018,and brings together the UK's seven research councils,Innovate UK and Research England. UK Research and Innovation is answerable to,although politically independent from,the Department for Business,Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The Institute of Psychiatry,Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) is a research institution dedicated to discovering what causes mental illness and diseases of the brain. In addition,its aim is to help identify new treatments for them and ways to prevent them in the first place. The IoPPN is a faculty of King's College London,England,previously known as the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP).
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) is a health services research centre based at the University of York,England. CRD was established in January 1994,and aims to provide research-based information for evidence-based medicine. CRD carries out systematic reviews and meta-analyses of healthcare interventions,and disseminates the results of research to decision-makers in the NHS.
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is the British government’s major funder of clinical,public health,social care and translational research. With a budget of over £1.2 billion in 2020–21,its mission is to "improve the health and wealth of the nation through research". The NIHR was established in 2006 under the government's Best Research for Best Health strategy,and is funded by the Department of Health and Social Care. As a research funder and research partner of the NHS,public health and social care,the NIHR complements the work of the Medical Research Council. NIHR focuses on translational research,clinical research and applied health and social care research.
Sir Alimuddin Zumla,,FRCP,FRCPath,FRSB is a British-Zambian professor of infectious diseases and international health at University College London Medical School. He specialises in infectious and tropical diseases,clinical immunology,and internal medicine,with a special interest in HIV/AIDS,respiratory infections,and diseases of poverty. He is known for his leadership of infectious/tropical diseases research and capacity development activities. He was awarded a Knighthood in the 2017 Queens Birthday Honours list for services to public health and protection from infectious disease. In 2012,he was awarded Zambia's highest civilian honour,the Order of the Grand Commander of Distinguished services - First Division. In 2022,for the fifth consecutive year,Zumla was recognised by Clarivate Analytics,Web of Science as one of the world's top 1% most cited researchers. In 2021 Sir Zumla was elected as Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences.
Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed is a British clinical pharmacologist and geneticist. Since 2007 he has been the NHS Chair of Pharmacogenetics at the University of Liverpool.
Dame Caroline Leigh Watkins,is an English academic,the Professor of Stroke and Older People's Care - and Director of Research and Innovation - of the College of Health and Wellbeing,University of Central Lancashire. She leads the Clinical Practice Research Unit (CPRU) for stroke research and is Director of Lancashire Clinical Trials Unit. She is also the Director of Capacity Building and Implementation for National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care North West Coast.
Rosalind Louise Smyth CBE is an Irish-British paediatrician. She is Professor of Child Health at UCL the Director of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health from 2012 until 2022. She has been Vice Dean Research in the UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences since 2022.
Ramani Moonesinghe OBE MD(Res) FRCP FRCA FFICM SFFMLM is Professor of Perioperative Medicine at University College London (UCL) and a Consultant in Anaesthetics and Critical Care Medicine at UCL Hospitals. Moonesinghe was Director of the National Institute for Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA) Health Services Research Centre between 2016 and 2022,and between 2016 and 2019 was Associate National Clinical Director for Elective Care for NHS England. In 2020 on she took on the role of National Clinical Director for Critical and Perioperative care at NHS England and NHS Improvement.
Sharon Jayne Peacock is a British microbiologist who is Professor of Public Health and Microbiology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge.
Nita Gandhi Forouhi is a British physician and academic,specialising in nutrition and epidemiology. She is Professor of Population Health and Nutrition at the University of Cambridge,the programme leader of the nutritional epidemiology programme of its MRC Epidemiology Unit,and an honorary consultant public health physician with Public Health England.
Kate Tilling is a British statistician who specialises in developing and applying statistical methods to overcome problems encountered in epidemiological research. Tilling has been a professor in medical statistics. in population health sciences within Bristol Medical School,University of Bristol,since 2011. She joined the University of Bristol in 2002 as a Senior Lecturer,following nine years as a lecturer at King's College London.
Lucy Yardley is a British psychologist and professor of health psychology based at both the University of Bristol and University of Southampton. She is a senior investigator at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and has a continuing role at the University of Southampton as Director of the LifeGuide Research Programme,and the Behavioural Science theme of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre.
Christina Pagel is a German-British mathematician and professor of operational research at University College London (UCL) within UCL's Clinical Operational Research Unit (CORU),which applies operational research,data analysis and mathematical modelling to topics in healthcare. She was Director of UCL CORU from 2017 to 2022 and is currently Vice President of the UK Operational Research Society. She also co-leads,alongside Rebecca Shipley,UCL's CHIMERA research hub which analyses data from critically ill hospital patients.
Monica Lakhanpaul FRCPCH is a British Indian consultant paediatrician at Whittington Health NHS Trust,and professor of integrated community child health at University College London (UCL). She is deputy theme lead for Collaborations in Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care –North Thames,adjunct professor at Public Health Foundation India,and also Global Strategic Academic Advisor (India).
Russell Mardon Viner,FMedSci is an Australian-British paediatrician and policy researcher who is Chief Scientific Advisor at the Department for Education and Professor of Adolescent Health at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. He is an expert on child and adolescent health in the UK and internationally. He was a member of the UK Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) during the COVID-19 pandemic and was President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health from 2018 to 2021. He remains clinically active,seeing young people with diabetes each week at UCL Hospitals. Viner is Vice-Chair of the NHS England Transformation Board for Children and Young People and Chair of the Stakeholder Council for the Board. He is a non-executive director (NED) at Great Ormond St. Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust,also sitting on the Trust's Finance &Investment and the Quality and Safety sub-committees.
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