Meet the Team
Research Fellow
Liz O’Nions
Liz currently works as an epidemiologist at Bradford Institute for Health Research. Her work is focused on investigating health inequalities experienced by people with multiple sclerosis using routinely collected data. She also works as an adviser for the NIHR Research Support Service Specialist Centre for Public Health. Before moving to Bradford, Liz worked on the AUDIT-50 study, a UCL project funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust looking at health and healthcare needs in older autistic people. Before that, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the UK and Belgium on a variety of projects connected to neurodiversity.
Consultant in Public Health
Dan Lewer
Dan’s research focuses on mental health, the way the healthcare system treats people with stigmatising conditions such as drug and alcohol dependence, and social exclusion. He specialises in causal analysis of observational data, and is particularly interested in within-case comparisons, matched cohort designs, and simulation-based approaches to create intuitive effect estimates. He is a member of the NIHR Public Health Research funding committee. Dan is a Consultant in Public Health and can supervise public health trainees who are interested in health research. He is also honorary Associate Professor of public health and epidemiology at University College London and Co Principal Investigator on our Bradford Mental Health Collaboratory Programme Grant.
Senior Research Fellow
Ellena Badrick
Ellena Badrick is a Senior Research Fellow working on the Born in Bradford cohort study. She provides data analysis support and works on collaborative projects such as the Better4U consortium, UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration and Population Research UK. She has detailed knowledge of impact of COVID and data collected during the pandemic. She has a PhD in medicine from the University of Manchester (2017) and an MSc in Social Epidemiology from UCL (2006). She is an experienced epidemiologist with particular interest in the use of routinely collected data in research, ethics, risk prediction modelling and survival analysis.
Senior Research Fellow
John Pickavance
John is a data scientist and epidemiologist at the Bradford Centre for Health Data Science. He currently co-leads on evaluating the effectiveness of community-based interventions at improving young people’s mental health. He also leads on the centre’s digital and social media theme, leveraging the power of trials and digital footprint data to understand the role these technologies play in the wellbeing of teens. His previous work on Born in Bradford: Age of Wonder adopted novel technologies to further understanding of adolescent development and address health inequalities, developing simple games for tablets, web-browsers, and virtual reality headsets, to measure neural processes in education settings. He also worked with teachers and senior leadership teams to deliver data dashboards giving oversight of how their pupils’ physical and mental health needs are being met in local and national contexts, sign-posting support where further needs are identified.
John is passionate about engaging young people and schools with science. Rather than using them as participant pools, he aims to bring students closer to the scientific method, providing interactive lessons, workshops, and datasets. Through this approach, he hopes to educate and inspire future generations of scientists from all backgrounds.
Research Project Manager
Emma Doggett
Emma currently works as the Research Programme Manager for the Bradford Mental Health Collaboratory programme and BCHDS. She previously worked as Research Project Manager for ActEarly and prior to that as the Research Evaluation Facilitator in the Innovation Hub working on Better Start Bradford projects. She was also a Research Assistant, recruiting participants into the BIBBS research programme. Previously. Emma worked in Children’s Social Care, Early Help and SEND for over a decade before completing her MSc at the University of Bradford in 2016 and her AFT Systemic Social Work qualification from the Centre for Systemic Social Work in 2020.
Senior Research Fellow
Faith Moyo
Faith is an Epidemiologist and Public Health Researcher with over 13 years’ research experience in global health, specializing in the prevention and management of HIV and non-communicable diseases in African settings. Faith’s work focuses on designing and implementing large-scale studies and analysing routine health data to develop strategies to improve health outcomes. She is a passionate advocate for health equity and creation of resilient, and sustainable healthcare solutions.
Faith currently works as a Senior Research Fellow within the Bradford Centre for Health Data Science where alongside colleagues, she leads the development of epidemiological methods and execution of statistical analysis plans for health impact assessments and exposome studies in the Urban Burden of Disease Policy and Health Urban Places projects.
Head of Research Data
Dan Mason
Dan is the lead data manager for the Born in Bradford family of longitudinal health studies. He is responsible for facilitating secure access to Born in Bradford data for UK and international researchers. Dan leads a team of 12 full-time technical and analytics staff and is responsible for maintenance and development of all data assets with respect to data availability, quality and harmonisation with external data assets, along with data documentation and the creation of new data assets. He takes the lead on governance of data access and provide robust stewardship of data access arrangements.
