Warwick Screening
Warwick Screening is a multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Professor Sian Taylor-Phillips. We specialise in evaluating health screening for a variety of conditions. Our work spans primary research, evidence review for national and international policy-makers, and specialist teaching. Meet our team here.
Evidence review
We undertake evidence review for national and international policy-makers, including the UK National Screening Committee who advise UK government on screening policy. Recent reviews include evaluating the evidence on the use of surrogates for mortality in cancer screening, the prevention or delay of type 2 diabetes in people with intermediate hyperglycaemia and the effect of screening asymptomatic adults for type 2 diabetes or intermediate hyperglycaemia on health outcomes.
Find out more about the evidence reviews undertaken at Warwick.
We also research on the methods of undertaking these reviews, find out more about that here.
Breast screening
Warwick Screening leads trials, observational research and evidence review of breast cancer screening. We use large observational studies and trials to increase statistical power, so we can measure impacts on women screened. We specialise in pragmatic integrated trials (sometimes called quality improvement trials) where parts of the trial are integrated into the screening programme.
Teaching
We offer a Master's level module and a one day course in Health Screening in collaboration with PHE Screening. The course content includes how to decide whether to start or change screening for a range of different diseases. This includes the UK National Screening Committee criteria, test evaluation, health economics, ethics and quality assurance.
Social and ethical implications of genetic screening
Dr Felicity Boardman in the Medicine, Society and Ethics group focuses on the social and ethical implications of reproductive screening, particularly when used in conjunction with emerging genomic technologies such as whole genome sequencing. Find out more about this work.