The Artificial Intelligence and Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Health and Care call funds research projects focused on enabling AI and data-driven technologies to deliver better health outcomes for minority ethnic communities.
Panel members
Name |
Position |
Organisation |
Expertise |
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Professor Peter Bannister (Chair) |
Chief Customer Success Officer |
Mirada Medical |
Commercial, product, operations and technology leadership in digital health, life sciences, artificial intelligence, medical imaging and clinical research organizations |
Dr Naomi Lee (Deputy Chair) |
Senior Executive Editor |
The Lancet |
Heads the research section at The Lancet. A vice chair of a WHO/ITU group working on evaluation and regulation of AI in health, centred around the WHO principles of ‘leaving no one behind’ |
Professor Karl Atkin |
Professor |
Department of Sociology, University of York |
A medical sociologist, experienced in using qualitative approaches to understand healthcare in multicultural societies |
Professor Clare Bambra |
Professor of Public Health |
Newcastle University |
Impacts of interventions on health inequalities |
Professor Michael Barnes |
Professor of Bioinformatics |
Queen Mary, University of London |
Application of computational analysis techniques including AI to a wide range of health data, including electronic health records, imaging and genomics |
Ms Jenny Chong |
Non-Executive Director and Chair of Medway Innovation Institute |
Medway NHS Foundation Trust |
20 years investment banking experience with expertise in big data, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, unstructured date surveillance, technology infrastructure, portfolio management and software engineering |
Professor Nusrat Husain |
Professor in Psychiatry |
University of Manchester |
Professor Husain's expertise is in developing culturally adapted scalable mental health interventions. |
Dr Bilal Mateen |
Clinical Technology Lead |
Wellcome Trust |
A clinician by background, with academic appointments at the Turing Institute & UCL to carry out data science for health research |
Dr Rohini Mathur |
Professor of Epidemiology |
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
Use of large-scale real-world electronic health records to conduct epidemiological research into ethnic inequalities in healthcare usage and outcomes |
Dr Krish Nirantharakumar |
Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine |
University of Birmingham |
Clinical Epidemiology, digital technologies, health records. Developing novel digital tools that enable effective/efficient healthcare systems and expedite health care research |
Mrs Peju Oshisanya |
Director, Clinical Programme Lead |
BenevolentAI |
Over 20 years in the pharmaceutical drug development industry including an AI organisation leveraging its platform for drug discovery |
Ms Reema Patel |
Associate Director |
Ada Lovelace Institute |
Reema is a founding staff member of the Ada Lovelace Institute, and she leads the organisation’s engagement work, which encompasses public deliberation research, and broader engagement work on health and social inequalities, seeking to inform the Institute’s overall agenda to convene diverse voices |
Professor Niels Peek |
Professor of Health Informatics |
The University of Manchester |
Translational data science for clinical risk prediction, personalised and precision medicine, patient safety, and multimorbidity |
Professor Nasir Rajpoot |
Professor of Computational Pathology |
Warwick University |
Applied Machine Learning, Computational Pathology, AI for Pathology |
Mr Jon Siddall |
Chief Executive Officer |
South West Academic Health Science Network |
Joined the SW AHSN in April 2020 to continue his work across the health and care system leading innovation, strategy and building partnerships to improve population health |
Mr Anmol Arora |
PPIE Representative |
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Nanik Pursani |
PPIE Representative |
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A stroke and cancer survivor who has experience of lay reviewing and being a PPIE representative on NIHR funding panels.
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