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Professor Azeem Majeed, Head, Department Primary Care and Social Medicine
Joint Lead

Azeem is Professor of Primary Care and Head of the Department of Primary Care & Social Medicine at Imperial College London. He qualified at the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff, Wales. He is accredited in both General Practice and Public Health Medicine and began his academic career at St. George's Hospital Medical School as Lecturer in Epidemiology & Public Health Medicine, and then as a Senior Lecturer in Primary Care. He then moved to a Senior Lecturer post at University College London, where he had a joint appointment between the School of Public Policy and the Department of Primary Care & Population Sciences. He was promoted to Professor by University College London in 2002. He took up the post of Professor of Primary Care and Head of the Department of Primary Care & Social Medicine at Imperial College London in 2004. Azeem is also Co-Director of the NW London Comprehensive Local Research Network and Associate Director (Primary Care) of the Diabetes Research Network. 

Dr. Laura Gunn, Research Associate in Biostatistics & Deputy Director of the Global
e-Health Unit, Department of Primary Care & Public Health, Imperial College London

Laura’s training is in biostatistics, with particular focus in public health.  She earned a PhD (2004) and MS (2001) in Statistics from Duke University (North Carolina, USA), and a BA with Honours in Mathematics (1999) from Jacksonville University (Florida, USA).  During her doctoral studies, she held a Fellowship with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS, North Carolina, USA) and provided consultation to several units of the Duke University Medical School.  In her previous position, she was a tenured Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH) at Georgia Southern University (Georgia, USA).  She co-led the development of the College since 2004 (as one of the initial six faculty) through a nationwide CEPH accreditation, which was earned in 2011.  She was Program Director of Biostatistics through the spring of 2011 and became Interim Associate Dean of the College at that time before moving to London in the fall of this same year.  She has taught numerous courses, at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels, spanning a broad range of biostatistical areas.  Though her training is in Bayesian statistics, she regularly uses both Frequentist and Bayesian methods of analysis.  Recent applications include, though are not limited to the following: an evaluation of a Georgia (USA) childhood asthma management program for Medicaid eligible patients; an analysis of postural control following concussion; receipt of health care transition counselling in the National Survey of Adult Transition & Health (SATH); colon, breast, and prostate cancer screening behaviours in regional environments; trends in infant mortality; social and behavioural health; health policy; nutrition; toxicology; reproductive health; oncology; and urology.  She has served as member of the US Department of Health & Human Services’ Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee, Chair of the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium, Treasurer for the American Statistical Association-Georgia Chapter, and as a grant recipient and reviewer as well as a journal reviewer for multiple international associations and journals.  She was awarded Excellence in Teaching & Mentoring as well as Excellence in Service at JPHCOPH.

Dr John Tayu Lee, Health Economics consultant, Department of Primary Care & Public Health, Imperial College London

John Tayu Lee is a Health Economics consultant at Research Design Service, Imperial College London. He has a MSc in Economics from University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in Health Economics from Centre for Health Economics, University of York. He has published studies on a variety of health policy issues, including health care finance, economics of prevention, insurance design and payment for physician, health inequalities, and economics of general practice.

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