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Professor Aileen Clarke

Job Title
Professor
Department
WMS - Health Sciences
Phone
024 7615 0063
Research Interests
Current Roles

I am Emeritus Professor of Public Health at the Warwick Medical School in the Division of Health Sciences at the University of Warwick, and Honorary Clinical Research Fellow at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford where I work with the Interdisciplinary Research In Health Sciences team

I am an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford and Chair of its Sheila Kitzinger programme I am a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Biography
Background

I have a 30+-year career as a doctor and academic I am an experienced board member. I am past Chair of the Faculty of Medicine at Warwick, past Chair of the Picker Institute and past President of the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health. I have worked with NICE as a member of the NICE Technology Appraisal Committee. At Warwick I built up a 40+research group. I founded Warwick Evidence which undertakes technology assessments and reviews for UK and international policy makers, and I now act as their senior academic advisor.

I studied medicine at the University of Oxford and trained and practised for a short time as a GP. I went on to train and work in academic Public Health at the London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine, before joining Warwick Medical School in 2007 and the University of Oxford in 2022.

Teaching and Research

My research interests lie at the interface between Public Health and Health Services Research. I have a very strong record of leading research teams and attaining research funding (over £35m in the last 10years) and have led over 200 publications and reports. I am an expert public speaker and networker and am experienced in working at board level and representing my institutions nationally and internationally.

I use multidisciplinary methods to distil best evidence and to understand and promote its use at the policy, organisational, population and individual levels to improve health. I undertake research on:

  • Health technology assessments (HTAs) for NICE and other policy makers
  • The relationship between research evidence and decisions in health care.
  • Getting research evidence into individual clinical decisions including use of information, guidelines, shared decision making, decision analysis and choice
  • Prevention and detection of diseases with an emphasis on screening.

I work with teams who undertake:

  • research to provide NICE with the essential clinical and cost effectiveness information it needs to make decisions for current practice across the NHS
  • systematic reviews for the National Screening Committee and other policy makers to help shape policy and practice
  • research on remote care (video and telephone care) in general practice
  • Clarke, Aileen, Powell, John, Lansang, M. A., 2009. Needs assessment : a practical approach. Detels, R.; Beaglehole, R.; Lansang, M.A.; Gulliford, M. (eds.), Oxford textbook of public health, Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press
Title Funder Award start Award end
TAR 3 - Production of Technology Assessment Reviews (TAR) National Institute for Health Research (NIHR DoH) 01 Apr 2022 31 Mar 2027
Second Stage NIHR Advanced Fellowship: Advancing clinical leadership in healthcare organisations to mobilise evidence into practice. A mixed methods study of clinical leadership in orthopaedic surgery National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Dec 2019 31 Mar 2025
ARC 2018: NIHR Applied Research Collaborations National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Oct 2019 30 Sep 2024
NIHR HS&DR Stage 2: Adapting Breast Cancer Screening to MAximise Mortality Benefit and Minimise Overdiagnosis harm (Adapt-MAMMO) National Institute for Health Research (NIHR DoH) 01 Jan 2021 31 Dec 2023
Research Design Service renewal 2018 National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Oct 2018 30 Sep 2023
NIHR HS&DR Full stage. Termination of resuscitation in UK ambulance services PROTECTED National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Sep 2019 31 Aug 2022
NIHR TAR2 12 month extension and supplement - orginal award on IDEATE number 00169 under Aileen Clarke National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Apr 2021 31 Mar 2022
NIHR HTA 17/148 - Health Technology Assessment Programme researcher-led evidence synthesis: Determining optimal dietary and physical activity interventions for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: a global data integration and network meta-analysis National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Feb 2019 31 Jul 2021
TAR Warwick Evidence Variation No 2 National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Oct 2017 31 Mar 2021
NIHR Warwick Evidence supplement of 0.5 TAR per annum for 5 years. National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Apr 2016 31 Mar 2021
Production of Technology Assessment Reviews (TARs) for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) HTA 14 National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Apr 2016 31 Mar 2021
NIHR DRF 2016 - Karoline Freeman: What is the role of faecal calprotectin testing for the differentiation between IBS and IBD in primary care? National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Oct 2016 30 Sep 2020
Social Prescribing short term project commissioned via NIHR NETSCC National Institute for Health Research (NIHR DoH) 01 Mar 2020 31 Aug 2020
Department of Work and Pensions: Invited Call: Implementation of a pilot fiscal incentive programme to improve employee wellbeing in small to medium size enterprises (SMEs): a cluster-randomised controlled trial in 100 SMEs West Midlands Combined Authority 01 Apr 2018 30 Mar 2020
PHE: National Screening Committee Tender: Screening for Type 2 Diabetes in adults Public Health England 01 Jul 2018 31 Dec 2019
UK National Screening Council: Screening to prevent sudden cardiac death in people aged 12 to 39 years old- evidence synthesis Public Health England 01 Nov 2018 31 Oct 2019
CLAHRC Theme 3 Research for 2019 National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Jan 2019 30 Sep 2019
National Screening Committee via Public Health England - TENDER: Non-invasive prenatal testing for T21, T18 and T13: an evidence review Public Health England 01 Apr 2018 31 Aug 2019
Collaborative Unit for defining the evidence base for health protection interventions. Public Health England 01 Apr 2014 31 Mar 2019
PHE: PHE:National Screening Committee: Newborn screening for tyrosinaemia type 1: screening and cost-effectiveness Public Health England 01 Mar 2018 28 Feb 2019
Centres for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West Midlands (CLAHRC WM), Theme 3 Prevention and Detection Department of Health 01 Jan 2014 31 Dec 2018
CLAHRC West Midlands Theme 3 Funding - Sophie Staniszewska National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Jan 2014 31 Dec 2018
UKNSC Tender Public Health England 01 Oct 2015 30 Sep 2018
NIHR Research Design Service West Midlands, Warwick Hub National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Oct 2013 30 Sep 2018
CLAHRC RCF Staff Support Funding for Theme 3 National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Apr 2017 31 Mar 2018
CLAHRC West Midlands Theme 3 Prevention and Detection of Diseases National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Nov 2016 31 Oct 2017
Specification for the recruitment of academic to complete a review of behavioural interventions to increase healthier purchasing and/or consumption of food and drink by NHS staff Public Health England 20 Mar 2017 19 Jul 2017
Specification for the recruitment of an academic to complete the retrospective analysis of hospital sales data to identify intervention to support healthier purchasing Public Health England 20 Mar 2017 19 May 2017
PHE Knowledge Dissemination Public Health England 01 Aug 2016 31 Mar 2017
Tyrosinemia Review (part of NSC framework agreement) Public Health England 01 Oct 2015 31 Dec 2016
National Screening Committee (NSC) - Evaluation of Screening Education UK National Screening Committee 01 May 2015 31 Dec 2016
NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Oct 2013 30 Sep 2016
Evaluation of the Coventry GP Alliance: Best Care, Anywhere: Integrating primary care in Coventry programme COVENTRY AND RUGBY GP ALLIANCE LIMITED 01 Nov 2015 31 Jul 2016
Production of Technology Assessment Reviews (TARs) for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) HTA; Variation National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Apr 2011 31 Mar 2016
Production of Technology Assessment Reviews (TARs) for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) HTA National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Apr 2011 31 Mar 2016
Integrated care for people with multiple chronic conditions in Europe European Commission 01 Mar 2013 29 Feb 2016
NIHR Infrastructure Doctoral Training National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Aug 2015 31 Oct 2015
Cost effectiveness of home versus facility based HIV testing in resource constrained settings Wellcome Trust 01 Sep 2012 31 Aug 2015
NIHR Cochrane programme grant: Lifestyle and pharmacological interventions for the primary prevention of Cardiovascular Disease National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Apr 2011 31 Mar 2015
Improving breast cancer screening performance through understanding radiologist performance patterns National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Oct 2011 30 Sep 2014
Improving breast cancer detection rates through understanding and modelling the patterns of radiologist performance Breast Cancer Campaign 01 Oct 2011 30 Sep 2014
HNA review for framework and care plan development in UK Strategic Clinical Networks Prostate Cancer UK 13 Aug 2013 31 Jul 2014
Understanding mental wellbeing in Coventry: Findings from the 2013 Coventry Household Survey Coventry City Council 21 Feb 2014 20 May 2014
National Screening Committee: Commissioned work, Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Public Health England 01 Oct 2013 31 Dec 2013
West Midlands Research Design Service Unit (RDSU) National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Oct 2008 30 Sep 2013
Evaluation of the Coventry Health Improvement Programme (E-CHIP) Coventry City Council 01 Jul 2010 30 Jun 2013
NIHR SDO: Patient Safety in Ambulance Services, (Revised bid) National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Apr 2011 31 Mar 2012
Supplement: (Management Fellowship) Evidence in Management Decisions - Advancing Knowledge Utilisation in Healthcare Management NHS Service Delivery and Organisation 01 Mar 2010 28 Feb 2012
Production of Technology Assessment Reviews (TARs) for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) HTA Department of Health 01 Feb 2010 01 Apr 2011
Evidence in Management Decisions (EMD) - Advancing Knowledge Utilization in Healthcare Management National Coordinating Centre for the Service Delivery and Organisation 01 Jan 2009 31 Dec 2010
Cross Cultural Validation of WEMWEBS Among English Speaking Members of Minority Ethnic Populations in the UK - continuing development 09/10 National Institute for Mental Health in England 01 Jun 2009 31 May 2010
Mental Well Being Survey, Levels and Factors Associated Among Adult Populations Living in Coventry Coventry Primary Care Trust 24 Mar 2009 23 Dec 2009
Warwick Edinburgh Assessment of Validity in Adolescents in Educational Settings (WAVES) NHS Health Scotland 01 Mar 2008 31 Oct 2009