Dr William Whittaker

Dr William Whittaker

Will is a Senior Lecturer in Health Economics at University of Liverpool. He has a PhD in Economics and expertise in health econometrics, particularly quasi-experimental methodology. His research interests are broad spanning primary care, social care, urgent and emergency care, dentistry, resource allocation, and health and work. A common thread across these is a passion … Read more

Dr Jennifer Downing

Jenny Downing is a researcher with a background in public health and health service research and experience in conducting both quantitative and qualitative research. In this role she supports and contributes to the development of a programme of research focusing on prioritised areas of complex care (Digital Health, Multimorbidity, and Continuity of Care). This collaborative … Read more

James Watson

Dr James Coleman Watson

I have interests in dementia care, inequities and inequalities in health outcomes, care access and on-going support among people with dementia and unpaid carers, the quality and inequalities in end-of-life and palliative care, and support and experiences of unpaid carers. I have a background of mixed-methods research, using data science methods in quantitative research and … Read more

Dr Kostas Daras

I am a Research Associate in Health Data Analysis within the Department of Public Health, Policy & Systems at University of Liverpool, with expertise in quantitative geography methods, big data analysis and geocomputation applied in population studies. Currently, I am working on the development of linked neighbourhood datasets using large datasets including Hospital Episode Statistics; … Read more

Dr Georgie Schofield

I have taken a few turns on my road to the Care & Health Data Innovation sub-theme, but most have been closely associated with computing one way or another. I started as a FORTRAN analyst-programmer in finance in London the 1980s, worked as computer systems manager for a pharmaceutical company laboratory in Cambridge in the … Read more

Prof Sarah Rodgers

Prof Sarah Rodgers

I am a Professor of Health Informatics with expertise in evaluating natural experiments and non-randomised intervention studies using anonymised linked administrative and health datasets, and I am the joint lead of ARC NWC’s Evidence4Impact Theme. I am principal investigator for an NIHR funded study evaluating the mental health and wellbeing impact of access to green … Read more