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Public Health Sciences Team

Areas of work covered by the team include

  • JSNA Development

  • Deaths data and death rates and life expectancy

  • Analysis and profiling of health data for the local population

  • Information about poor and deprived areas

  • Health Equity Audit and Health Needs Analysis

  • Monitoring population health and healthcare delivery at small area level

  • Advice and assistance on research, data collection and analysis.

  • Health and Lifestyle surveys of local adults and young people

  • Programme Budget Marginal Analysis

  • Predictive Modelling

Dr Andrew Taylor  - Assistant Director,  Public Health Science

Following a career in the Private Sector, received  the BSc (Hons) in Economics at the University of Bradford (1996)  and the MSc in Health Economics from the University of York (1997).  He was awarded a Phd in Public Health Economics by the University of Bradford School of Management in 2005.  Since  his Masters degree he worked as a Health Economist for the Medical Research Council, based in Nottingham, with visiting lectureships in Health Economics and Econometrics at the University of Bradford School of Management and the University of Hull.  In the year 2000 he came to Hull work as a Health Economist and since that time has been involved in a great deal of Clinical Policy and Epidemiological analysis.   He currently leads the Public Health Sciences team, the Clinical Policy Support team and Library and Information Services.

Clinical Policy

Jenny Walker - Clinical Policy Support Manager

BSc Hons (University of Southampton 1987) Pharmacology & Physiology, MSc (University of Hull 1998) Health Services Research.  Jenny Walker has had a varied career in the private, public and voluntary sectors. All her posts have involved a continuous thread of health related research - both laboratory and office based. Highlights include acting as scientific researcher for the London law firm ‘Leigh Day & Co’ acting on behalf of children affected by leukaemia living around Sellafield; researching ‘Shared Learning Needs in Health and Social Care’ for Hull University and developing and launching the local HEROS website at the North Bank Forum. Jenny has done laboratory based work at St Bartholomews Hospital, the Parkinson’s Disease Research Laboratory in London and locally at Hull Royal Infirmary. Jenny has lived in Hull since 1994 and has been in her current NHS post since 2004.  A description of Jenny's main work areas may be found here.

Epidemiology and Statistics

Tim Greene - Epidemiologist / Analyst

Has worked as a Statistician and Information specialist in the Civil Service, Local Government, University Research Groups and now the NHS. He has particular experience of epidemiology, medical statistics and demography.

Mandy Porter - Epidemiologist / Analyst

Mandy has a degree in Actuarial Science and an MSc in Statistics from the University of Kent at Canterbury.  She worked at the University of Edinburgh for 12 years as a medical statistician on various surveys and clinical trials involving health.  Her role involved survey and questionnaire design, setting up databases and data coding, checking data quality, analysing data, and writing reports and articles for medical journals.  She was also involved in offering statistical advice to a range of University and hospital staff, and teaching statistics to undergraduate medical students and postgraduate public health students.  She started working for the Public Health Sciences team within Hull PCT in January 2005.  Mandy has a wide range of publications in learned journals. 

Robert (Iddy) Sheikh Iddenden - Epidemiologist/Analyst

Has worked as a statistician / epidemiologist since completing his MSC in Medical Statistics form London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1998.  He has worked in stroke research and, for three of the UK’s cancer registries, where he was involved in monitoring cancer incidence, mortality and survival, as well as treatment patterns.  He recently moved to Hull with his young family to take up his current role.

 

Derek (Des) Cooper - Trainee Epidemiologist/Analyst

 

Jim Keech - Trainee Epidemiologist/Analyst

 

Library and Information Services

 

Diane Thompson - Library and Information Manager

Eric Morris -  Resource Centre

Rosemary Purcell - Library Administration and Research