Aziz Sheikh (OBE, FRSE, FMedSci)
Professor of Primary Care Research and Development
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Usher Institute – The University of Edinburgh
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
- Street
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Usher Institute – The University of Edinburgh
NINE Edinburgh BioQuarter
9 Little France Road - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UX
Background
Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh is Director of the Usher Institute. He is also Dean of Data for The University of Edinburgh, Director of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR), Director of the Scottish Allergy and Respiratory Academy (SARA), and Co-Director of the NHS Digital Academy Digital Health Leadership Programme.
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, and received a knighthood for services to COVID-19 research and policy in 2022.
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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Patient-centred digital biomarkers for allergic respiratory diseases and asthma: the ARIA-EAACI approach
In:
Allergy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/all.15740
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (E-pub ahead of print) -
International consensus statement on allergy and rhinology: Allergic rhinitis - 2023
In:
International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology (IFAR), vol. 13, pp. 293-859
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/alr.23090
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published) -
Development and validation of an electronic daily control score for asthma (e-DASTHMA): a real-world direct patient data study
In:
The Lancet Digital Health, vol. 5, pp. e227-e238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(23)00020-1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Feasibility and acceptability of bubble continuous positive airway pressure oxygen therapy for the treatment of childhood severe pneumonia and hypoxemia in Bangladeshi children
In:
Journal of Global Health
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Consortium for the Study of Pregnancy Treatments (Co-OPT): An international birth cohort to study the effects of antenatal corticosteroids
(27 pages)
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282477
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Ethnic, racial and migrant inequalities in respiratory health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1183/2312508X.10021622
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Barriers to and Facilitators of Asthma Care For Malaysian Hajj Pilgrims: A Qualitative Study
In:
Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10105395231158684
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries
In:
Nature Human Behaviour
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01522-y
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Effectiveness and safety of coronavirus disease 2019 vaccines
In:
Current opinion in pulmonary medicine, vol. 29, pp. 138-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/MCP.0000000000000948
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Incidence determinants and serological correlates of reactive symptoms following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination
In:
npj Vaccines, vol. 8, pp. 26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41541-023-00614-0
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)