Southampton Health Technology Assessments Centre (SHTAC)

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.
Members of the SHTAC team with Professor Joanne Lord, gathered around a bright room with various posters in the background.
Some of the SHTAC team with Professor Joanne Lord in the centre of the group.

Dr Keith Cooper

Principal Research Fellow
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Miss Lois Woods

Senior Research Assistant

Research interests

  • Lois collaborates on projects across the university to provide information specialist support or as part of SHTAC’s review team.
  • Evidence synthesis contributions to a rapid review of the effectiveness of digital tools to improve recruitment and retention of participants in randomised controlled trials (project led by Southampton Clinical Trials Unit).
  • Information science support for a realist review of strategies to prevent urinary tract infections in older people in care homes https://southampton.likn.co/stoputi/ (StOP UTI project)
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Dr Marcia Takahashi

Research Fellow
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Ms Maria (Mary) Chorozoglou Bsc (Hons), MSc

Senior Research Fellow In Health Eco

Research interests

  • Research interests
  • Analysis of individual patient data from Randomised Controlled Trials and Electronic Routinely Collected data. Methodological aspects of health technology assessment in paediatric and early life interventions, incorporating long term economic implications,The use of Patient Level Information and Costing System (PLICS) data collection alongside RCTs. Methodologies of improving health outcomes in relation to health care using routinely collected NHS electronic records data to facilitate greater integration between NHS records and applied research processes.Health policy research and healthcare systems, providing data and observations about how policy changes could contribute to better outcomes through economies of scale.  
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Mrs Neelam Kalita

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Economic evaluations
  • Non Communicable Diseases
  • Adolescent health and wellbeing
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Professor Tracey Sach

Professor in Health Economics

Research interests

  • Health economics
  • Economic evaluation methodology and application, particularly alongside randomised controlled trials
  • Outcome measurement including non-monetary preference-based methods

Accepting applications from PhD students

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