Aziz Sheikh (OBE, FRSE, FMedSci)
Chair of Primary Care Research and Development
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
- Street
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
NINE
9 Little France Road
Edinburgh BioQuarter - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UX
Background
Professor Sheikh is Director of the Usher Institute. He is also Director of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR), Director of the Scottish Allergy and Respiratory Academy (SARA), Director of the NIHR Global Respiratory Health Unit (RESPIRE) and is Co-Director of the NHS Digital Academy.
Qualifications
BSc, MBBS, MSc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP, FRCPE, FFPH, FACMI, FFCI, FRSE, FMedSci
Responsibilities & affiliations
Currently Aziz holds a number of visiting chairs, namely: University of Birmingham (UK), Queen Mary’s University of London (UK) and Maastricht University (Netherlands). He was previously Visiting Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
He is an editorial board member of BMC Medicine, Health Informatics Journal, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Medical Care and PLOS Medicine, and is Editor-in-Chief of npj: Primary Care Respiratory Medicine.
Aziz was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for Services to Medicine and Health Care by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2014.
Research summary
Aziz is a primary care academic and epidemiologist with substantial research interests in asthma/allergy and in leveraging the potential of health information technology and data science to transfrom the delivery of care and improve population health.
He enjoys collaborations with academic colleagues across the globe and works closely with policymakers both in the UK and internationally.
He has held research grants in excess of $90m, publishes regulalrly in the world's foremost journals, has over 50,000 citations to his work and is a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate, 2018).
Project activity
Aziz's projects include work on health inequalities and asthma.
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Promoting inter-organisational knowledge sharing: A qualitative evaluation of England's Global Digital Exemplar and Fast Follower Programme
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 16, pp. e0255220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255220
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Menopausal hormone therapy and women's health: An umbrella review
In:
PLoS Medicine, vol. 18, pp. e1003731
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003731
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Effect of quitting smoking on health outcomes during treatment for tuberculosis: secondary analysis of the TB & Tobacco Trial
In:
Thorax
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215926
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Development of an educational intervention to reduce the burden of adult chronic lung disease in rural India: Inputs from a qualitative study
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 16, pp. e0254534
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254534
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Effect of smoke-free policies in outdoor areas and private places on children's tobacco smoke exposure and respiratory health: a systematic review and meta-analysis
In:
The Lancet Public Health, vol. 6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00097-9
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Strategies supporting sustainable prescribing safety improvement interventions in english primary care: qualitative study
In:
BJGP Open
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0109
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Temporal trends and forecasting of COVID-19 hospitalisations and deaths in Scotland using a national real-time patient-level data platform: a statistical modelling study
In:
The Lancet Digital Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(21)00105-9
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Management of asthma in childhood: study protocol of a systematic evidence update by the Paediatric Asthma in Real Life (PeARL) Think Tank
In:
BMJ Open, vol. 11, pp. e048338
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048338
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Do smokers with tuberculosis who quit smoking during treatment have better health outcomes than those who don’t? A secondary analysis of the TB & Tobacco Trial
In:
Thorax
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Chronic respiratory disease surveys in adults in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic scoping review of methodological approaches and outcomes
In:
Journal of Global Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.11.04026
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)