About us

The UK Public Involvement Standards Development Partnership was established in July 2016 and brings together representatives from the Chief Scientist Office (Scotland),  Health and Care Research Wales, the Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland) and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (England) working with an independent expert.

The team

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Ade Adebajo

NIHR INVOLVE Associate & Sheffield University & Barnsley Hospital NHS Trust

Sally Crowe

Crowe Associates

Hothan Esmael

Former PPIE Senior Programme Manager, NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF)

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Bob McAlister

Public Member, Health & Care Research Wales Public Delivery Board

Barbara Moore

Senior Public Involvement and Engagement Manager, Health and Care Research Wales Support Centre

Alex Newberry

Head of NHS Research Governance and Informatics, Division for Social Care and Health Research, Welsh Government

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Martin Quinn

Regional Personal and Public Involvement (PPI) Lead,  Public Health Agency 

Una Rennard

Public Member, NIHR Centre for Engagement and Dissemination 

Paula Wray

Former Senior Public Involvement Manager, NIHR INVOLVE Coordinating Centre

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Julie Simpson

Research Manager – Information and Capacity, Chief Scientist Office 

Philippa Yeeles

Former Director of Involvement & Engagement at NIHR Central Commissioning Facility  and previous member of the Standards Development Partnership (2016-2018) 

Angela Martin

Former Lead for Public Involvement & Engagement at Research and Development Division, Welsh Government and previous member of  the Standards Development Partnership (2016-2019)

If you would like to contact us:

NIHR 

Email: PublicPartnerships@nihr.ac.uk       

Telephone: 020 8843 7117 



Health and Care Research Wales 

Public Involvement and Engagement Team

Email: research-involvement@wales.nhs.uk

Telephone: 02920 230457