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Prof Andrew HaywardCo-Director Professor Andrew Hayward trained in medicine and subsequently as an epidemiologist and Public Health Physician. His early research focussed on epidemiology and control of infections of public health importance including tuberculosis, influenza and antibiotic resistance. A major part of this work has been in close collaboration with the UCLH Find&Treat Service to support the development and evaluation of effective interventions for Inclusion Health Groups such as People Experiencing Homelessness, drug users and prisoners. Andrew has extensive experience of supporting junior researchers to obtain competitive research fellowships and was recently awarded the UCL student choice award for PhD supervision. Andrew is an Educational Supervisor for public health Trainees on attachment to UCL. He was co-director of the UCL Institute of Health Informatics where his research group has now formed the UCL Centre for Public Health Data Science. He left this Institute to direct the UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care in 2017. Andrew has an Honorary Consultant Contract with Central and North-West London NHS Community Trust. In recent years Andrew focused on Inclusion Health. In partnership with Dr Alistair Story (Honorary Associate Professor and lead of the UCLH Find&Treat service), Andrew has co-founded and co-directs the UCL Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health. Andrew is happy to be approached by anyone who is seeking a placement at the Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health or who wishes to develop a fellowship or research proposal in this area. |
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Dr Al StoryCo-Director Dr Al Story is the founder and Clinical Lead of the pan-London UCLH Find&Treat Service. Working in partnership with Professor Andrew Hayward, they have a 20 year track record of translational research and health service innovation with excluded and marginalised populations. His research interests include Inclusion Health, Health Service models - integrated outreach, point of care diagnostics, peer led interventions, and using mobile digital technologies to promote engagement and treatment continuity. He was elected Fellow by Distinction to the Faculty of Public Health in 2015 and is an original member of the UK Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health and the Pathway Team. He is UCL Associate Professor of Inclusion Health (honorary) and co-founded and co-directs the UCL Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health with Professor Andrew Hayward.
Al is happy to be approached by anyone interested in inclusion health. |
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Janine DoughtyNIHR Doctoral Research Fellow/ Dentist Janine qualified in dentistry from the University of Bristol in 2010. Her most recent post was as a Special Care Dentistry Academic Clinical Fellow at the Eastman Dental Hospital. In the latter part of 2017, after 18 months of speciality training, Janine was awarded funding to undertake an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship (DRF). The DRF award has enabled her to take three years out of her speciality training programme to complete a PhD: the HIVDENTAL study is an acceptability and feasibility study implementing HIV testing in dental settings in London. Janine has achieved numerous awards including the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry Oral Health Promotion Prize, SAAD Essay Prize, British Association of Oral Surgery Senior House Officer Open Paper Prize, finalist for Barts Health Hero award, and in 2018 she was honoured to receive the British Dental Association award for contributions to the association. |
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Chantal EdgeNIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellow/Public Health Speciality Registrar Chantal is a Specialty Registrar in Public Health (St4) on the South West London, Surrey and Sussex NHS training scheme. She is currently based at UCL within the CCIH to undertake an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship supervised by Professor Andrew Hayward. Her fellowship centres on the implementation and evaluation of telemedicine for secondary care appointments within prisons in Surrey. Chantal also holds a grant from the Wellcome Trust to develop a short animated film based on qualitative data collection in prisons, to inform hospital clinicians of the issues prisoners experience when accessing secondary care appointments, to encourage them to design improved services for this traditionally underserved population. Chantal's primary research centres within the field of health and justice but she also has a strong interest in the wider field of inclusion health and healthcare public health. |
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Cassie FairheadUCL Medical Student Cassie studied medicine at the University of Cambridge. Whilst in Cambridge she joined Polygeia, a student-led multi-university global health think-tank. As a researcher, editor, and finally editor-in-chief of Polygeia she undertook research commissioned by charities such as MedicMobile, focusing on public and reproductive health. Cassie also had the opportunity to undertake an internship researching immune responses to the rotavirus vaccine at the Wellome Trust Research Laboratory in Vellore, Tamil Nadu.
Cassie joined UCL to complete her medical training and was inspired by the ability of patients to manage their health despite facing significant barriers to medical care. She was greatly inspired by the refugee and asylum-seeking women she collaborated with during the UCL Grand Challenges project 'Pathways to Education', when she co-led a group of women as part of a course based on "Women in Education/ Women in London". She is now in her final year of medical school and is working on research projects at the Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health. |
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Zana KhanInclusion Health GP Dr. Zana Khan is a GP specialising in the care of homeless and inclusion health groups (IHGs). Zana's research and clinical interests include managing complex health, care and overlapping needs in IHGs, Inclusion Health service design, implementation and evaluation, complex service interventions in Inclusion Health and education of health and wider staff in Inclusion Health. She worked as a portfolio and inner-city GP in primary care and urgent care before joining the Kings Health Partners Pathway Homeless Team as GP Clinical Lead in 2013, implementing the first Pathway Homeless Team in a Mental Health Trust at SLaM and the largest Pathway Homeless Team at GStT.
Zana contributes to research and steering groups for projects including the Viraemic Hep C study, Burdett Foundation nurse leadership grant, Oak Foundation End of Life in homeless study and Serena Luchenski's NIHR doctoral study in preventative healthcare in homeless people. |
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Emma KingPublic Health Specialty, Registrar Emma King is a Public Health Registrar passionate about inclusion health and improving the lives of those most vulnerable in society. Across 10 years experience of working in Public Health, Emma has worked on projects around improving mental wellbeing, prison health, assessing health needs of young offenders and improving end of life care for homeless people. She is currently on placement with the Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health at UCL, and developing research about Adverse Childhood Experiences. |
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Dan LewerNIHR Doctoral Research Fellow/Public Health Specialty Registrar Dan is a public health registrar and an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow at the Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health. His research focuses on how the NHS can provide better care for physical health problems in people who use heroin and crack cocaine. He uses 'real world data' (such as electronic health records of hospitals and GPs) to show how health services can be improved. |
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Serena LuchenskiNIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellow/Consultant in Public Health Serena Luchenski studied biology at the University of Victoria and then epidemiology at McGill University, Canada. She moved to London in 2008 and worked as an epidemiologist prior to joining the North London public health training scheme in 2011. During her registrar training, Serena's passion for reducing health inequalities flourished, particularly among people with experience of homelessness, drug use and other forms of social exclusion. She was awarded a 1-year CMO-funded Academic Public Health Fellowship to develop her interests in Inclusion Health in the UK. She worked at UCL and led a review of 'what works' for Inclusion Health populations, published in the Lancet. In 2017 Serena began an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship to work to prevent health problems and early mortality among people experiencing homelessness. She simultaneously completed her public health training and became an Honorary Public Health Consultant working with the Pathway Charity and Inclusion Health services at University College London Hospital. |
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Binta SultanNIHR Doctoral Research Fellow/Consultant in HIV Binta trained in medicine at UCL and in public health at Harvard. She completed specialist training in HIV and sexual health in 2015 and works as a consultant in HIV medicine in London. She also works as a forensic medical examiner for the Havens, sexual assault referral centres in London, providing medical care to victims of sexual assault. Binta's research interests are improving access to health for excluded populations using innovative methods, social justice methodologies and co-production of research. She is based across two UCL centres, the Centre for Research in Infection and Sexual Health and the Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health. Binta's clinical and research experience led her to develop a study to improve hepatitis C linkage to care in people who experience homelessness, using novel technologies. In 2018, Binta was awarded an NIHR doctoral research fellowship to implement and evaluate this study. |
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