Yorkshire and Humber Satellite

Professor Jane West is Director of the Yorkshire and Humber satellite. She works in Bradford as the Director of Public Health Research, ActEarly Consultant in Public Health at Bradford Institute for Health Research/Bradford Council, and is also an honorary Professor of Public Health at ScHARR, University of Sheffield. She is a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and has UKPHR registration. 

Jane is a co-investigator on the UKPRP ActEarly consortium and the Wellcome funded Born in Bradford Age of Wonder Programme. Her research interests include income and ethnic inequalities and their impact on child health and opportunity, wider and commercial determinants of health and wellbeing, and systems approaches to disease prevention and population health. 

From 2014 – 2024 Jane was the NIHR CRN National Specialty Lead for Public Health, and from 2019 - 2024 was a member of the Advisory Board for Safer Gambling.

Dr Janine Bestall is Research Design Lead for the Yorkshire and Humber satellite and is the co-lead of the  pre award research design team with Dr Louise Hayes. Janine is also a Senior Research Fellow at University of Leeds, as well as an Embedded Research Fellow at Wakefield Council.

Janine completed her PhD in 1999. It focussed on the effectiveness of pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with moderate and severe COPD. She was a Public Health commissioner for 7 years, developing and commissioning services for people with Long Term conditions at NHS Kirklees.

She has been a research adviser for 10 years, previously for the NIHR Research Design Service Yorkshire and Humber (RDS YH). She was Deputy Director of RDS YH for 4 years. Janine has experience of a range of research methods including systematic reviews, mixed methods research including feasibility and definitive trials, qualitative research and public involvement.

Carolyn is the administrator for the Yorkshire and Humber satellite and works at the Bradford Institute for Health Research as a Project Support Officer. She has worked within the NHS for nearly 25 years and provides admin support to several different research projects, as well as to the Director of Research.

Dan is a methodologist who supports the Yorkshire and Humber satellite, he specialises in causal analysis of observational data, and is particularly interested in within-case comparisons, nested case control and matched cohort designs, and simulation-based approaches to create intuitive effect estimates. . Dan leads the Bradford Centre for Health Data Science. He is an epidemiologist who focuses on mental health (particularly for young people), the way the healthcare system treats people with stigmatising conditions such as drug and alcohol dependence, and social exclusion.  Dan is also a Public Health Consultant and a member of the NIHR Public health research funding committee. 

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