People Involved
Gari Clifford
Gari Clifford, Director of CAHT, is on faculty at Oxford in the Dept of Engineering Science at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering. He has been working in affordable healthcare since co-founding ICT4D and SanaMobile at MIT in 2007, where he was a Principal Research Scientist. His research focuses on introducing state of the art signal processing and machine learning into both intensive care and resource-poor environments by leveraging smart phones and low cost sensors.
David Clifton
David is the Associate Director of OxCAHT. A graduate of the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford, he spent four years as a post-doctoral researcher in biomedical engineering at Oxford before being appointed to the faculty. His research concerns the interface between machine learning and large-scale medical data analysis (from both m-health systems and electronic health records), an emerging field called computational health informatics. David is a Royal Society of Engineering Research Fellow, a Research Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford, and a Lecturer in Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford.
Joachim Behar
Joachim Behar (BSc, MSc) did his undergraduate studies in France at l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne in General Engineering. He continued at the university of Oxford where he was offered a place in the MSc in Biomedical Engineering. During his time there, he co-funded O×CAHT and have been involved in the MIT Sana telemedicine project where he worked on the creation of a diabetic-foot management system in collaboration with MIT and the university of Thessaloniki. He is currently doing a DPhil in Biomedical Engineering at Oxford within the Intelligent Patient Monitoring Group working on ECG signal processing for foetal electrocardiography.
Alessandro Guazzi
Alessandro completed his undergraduate studies in Physics at Imperial College. He is now pursuing a DPhil in Healthcare Innovations at Oxford University and is working on novel non-contact methods of vital sign monitoring. Within the Oxford Centre for Affordable Healthcare Technonlogies, Alessandro has taken part in the development of the front- and back- end of the Smart Water Systems project.
Sana Fathima
Sana Fathima is currently a 3rd year DPhil student at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. J. Alison Noble. Her dissertation is focused on the use of population data and probabilistic atlas construction in characterizing fetal growth and development. She also manages the Intergrowth-21st and Inter-Bio Databases for the Nuffield Dept of Obstetrics & Gynaecology.
Olayinka Oduwole
Olayinka Oduwole is a second year DPhil student in Engineering Science. Her research involves the use of magnetic separation techniques for various biomedical applications. She also works for the National History and Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.
Gari Clifford. BSc Exon, MSc Soton, MA, DPhil Oxon
University Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science; Associate Director, Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation Dr Gari Clifford is the Director of Kellogg College's Centre for Affordable Healthcare Technologies, which was formed to extend his research as the head of the Intelligent Patient Monitoring Group at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering where his group applies techniques from signal processing and data fusion to cardiovascular disease, circadian rhythms, critical care, foetal monitoring, mental health, and resource-constrained healthcare.
Amanda Burls. BA MBBS MSc (Neuroscience) MSc (Public Health) FFPH
Amanda Burls is a public health physician. She is Director of Postgraduate Programmes in Evidence-Based HealthCare (EBHC) at the University of Oxford, and a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. She is Director of the Oxford International Programme in Evidence-Base Health Care which includes a Masters and DPhil programme in EBHC.
Jeremy Gibbons. BSc Edinburgh, MA DPhil Oxford, CEng, CITP, MBCS, FIAP
Professor of Computing, Deputy Director of Part-time MSc in Software Engineering, Oxford University Department of Computer Science Jeremy Gibbons has been a fellow of Kellogg College since October 1999. He is Deputy Director of the part-time MSc in Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Science, where he also served as Deputy Head for 2008–2010. Before joining Kellogg, he held lectureships at Oxford Brookes University and the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
James W Davies. MA MSc DPhil Oxford
Professor of Software Engineering; Director of the Software Engineering Programme, Oxford University Department of Computer Science Jim Davies is trying to change the way that people think about software. He teaches software design, and his research interests are: frameworks for description and analysis, combining state-based, behavioural, and object languages; and practical, automated techniques for software verification.
Carl Heneghan. MA DPhil Oxford, BM BCH Oxford, MRCGP
Carl Heneghan is a Reader in Evidence-Based Medicine, Director of the Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine and a General Practitioner. He has had an association with the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine since 1995 and is a fellow of Kellogg College.
Davjd Mant. MB ChB Birmingham, BA Cambridge, MSc London, MA Oxford, FRCGP, FRCP, FMedSci
David Mant is head of the University Department of Primary Health Care, which provides community based teaching of undergraduate medical students in Oxford, and a service general practitioner at South Oxford Health Centre. He is also responsible for supervising the Departmental research programme which aims to provide a scientific base for everyday clinical practice. Most of the clinical questions addressed by the research are straightforward (e.g. how do we minimise delay in diagnosing serious illness?) although providing an answer often requires application of the latest scientific techniques.
Andrew C Simpson. BSc Wales, MSc, DPhil Oxford, CEng, CITP, MBCS
University Lecturer in Software Engineering, Oxford University Department of Computer Science Dr Andrew Simpson is a University Lecturer in Software Engineering, based in the Department of Computer Science. He is currently Director of Graduate Studies for the Software Engineering Programme, which offers professionals the opportunity to study for MScs in Software Engineering and Software and Systems Security on a part-time basis. He is currently responsible for delivering the Programme’s Data Security and Specification and Design courses.
Agathoniki Trigoni. BSc Athens, MA Oxford, PhD Cambridge
Rachel Hall-Clifford
Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc, is Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Primary Health Care and Research Associate in the School of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She is a medical anthropologist working at the intersections of anthropology and public health. Her research focuses on the delivery of primary health care services, and she is currently researching the implementation of an SMS-based system for monitoring community health workers in Guatemala. Dr. Hall-Clifford conducted fieldwork in the central highlands of Guatemala on treatments for childhood diarrhea and the delivery of primary health care for rural Maya populations. She is interested in the measurement of long-term impacts of public health intervention and inequalities in the distribution of health and development funding. She has also held medical anthropology research positions at Harvard University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Hall-Clifford is Co-Director of the NAPA-OT Field School in Medical Anthropology.
Kazem Rahimi
Kazem Rahimi is the James Martin Senior Fellow in Essential Healthcare at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. As the Deputy Director of the George Centre for Healthcare Innovation, he leads the Essential Healthcare Programme, which aims to find practical and affordable solutions for the global health priorities of the world’s largest emerging economies, as well as the priorities of vulnerable or disadvantaged populations in established economies. He graduated in medicine from the University of Leipzig in Germany with postgraduate training in cardiology and health services research in Leipzig, London and Oxford. Prior to joining the George Centre, in 2010, he was a Research Fellow at Oxford’s Clinical Trial Service and Epidemiological Studies Unit. His research interests include innovation in chronic disease prevention and management, large-scale complex intervention studies, and development of innovative methodologies in health services and systems research such as complexity science.