HTA Prioritisation Committee: Social Care

This committee will advise on the development of topics from across the HTA remit, but will have strengths in the area of social care.

Chair

Professor Geraldine Macdonald - Professor of Social Work. Senior Fellow within the NIHR School of Social Care Research and National Speciality Lead for Social Care within the Research Delivery Network

Members

• Dr Mary Baginsky - Reader in Social Care, King's College London
• Professor Ravinder Barn – Professor of Social Policy, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Professor Yvonne Birks - Professor of Health and Social Care/Associate Dean for Research, University of York, NIHR School for Social Care Research
• Mr David Burling - Public Contributor
• Professor Deborah Caldwell - Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Bristol
• Dr Michael Clark - Research Programme Manager, London School of Economics and Political Science, NIHR School for Social Care Research
• Professor Mike Clarke - Professor/Director of Northern Ireland Methodology Hub, Queen’s University Belfast
• Mrs Zoë Clarke - Chief Scientific Officer’s Clinical Fellow and Lead Healthcare Scientist, Barnsley Assistive Technology Team, Barnsley NHS Foundation Trust
• Mr Pete Jackson - Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) Improvement Director
• Professor Berni Kelly - Director of the Centre for Inclusion, Transformation and Equality (CITE), Queen’s University Belfast
• Dr Nina Maxwell - Health and Care Research Wales Social Care Specialty Lead; Senior Research Fellow, CASCADE, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
• Ms Suzie Shepherd - Public contributor with experience of working with NIHR to provide consistent approaches to embedding Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement in all areas of research.
• Professor Martin Webber - Professor of Social Work, University of York