Population and Public Health Discovery Advisory Group
This advisory group shortlists candidates for Wellcome Career Development Awards and Wellcome Discovery Awards.
Its remit covers applications that aim to understand the causes and consequences of health, wellbeing and disease in individuals and populations. It includes a range of disciplines such as (but not limited to) epidemiology, social science, health economics and data science, and includes all study designs (observational sciences, trials or intervention designs), including interventions, if the main purpose is discovery research.
Examples include:
- understanding health and disease, their determinants, distribution and burden, where this brings new transformative knowledge in a specific context; it includes approaches such as surveillance, design and analytical methods development
- research to understand the biological, behavioural, socioeconomic, physical and ecological causes of health and disease including underlying mechanisms
- methodological developments in public and population health, including study design, data collection and linkages, statistical methods and conceptual frameworks
- research to inform health systems and health policy.
Members
Members are listed below. Additional experts will join the panel as necessary.
Dr Tamsen Rochat (Chair)
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Professor Linda Adair
University of North Carolina, USA
Dr Katherine Atkins
University of Edinburgh
Dr Simon Cauchemez
Institut Pasteur, France
Professor Zhengming Chen
University of Oxford
Professor Nicole De Wet-Billings
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Dr Kebede Deribe
University of Sussex
Professor Rosemary Green
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Dr Mark Jordans
King's College London
Professor Gilberto Kac
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Professor Victor Mwapasa
University of Malawi, Malawi
Professor Kate Pickett
University of York
Professor Maryam Shahmanesh
University College London
Professor Laura Shallcross
University College London
Manager
Rebecca Grayson
Funding Manager
Wellcome Trust