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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Risk stratification of patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol: development and validation of the 4C Mortality Score
In:
British Medical Journal (BMJ), pp. m3339
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3339
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
We need a robust evidence base to unravel the relationship between sex hormones and asthma
In:
Thorax
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215566
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Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17
In:
The Lancet Global Health, vol. 8, pp. e1162-e1185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30278-3
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Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
In:
The Lancet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30750-9
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Estimating global injuries morbidity and mortality: methods and data used in the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study
In:
Injury Prevention, pp. injuryprev-2019-043531
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043531
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Correction: Online Guide for Electronic Health Evaluation Approaches: Systematic Scoping Review and Concept Mapping Study
In:
Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 22, pp. e23642
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/23642
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Global burden of disease due to smokeless tobacco consumption in adults: an updated analysis of data from 127 countries
In:
BMC Medicine, vol. 18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01677-9
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Can Robots Improve Testing Capacity for SARS-CoV-2?
In:
Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 22, pp. e20169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/20169
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Online Guide for Electronic Health Evaluation Approaches: Systematic Scoping Review and Concept Mapping Study
In:
Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 22, pp. e17774
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/17774
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Cabbage and fermented vegetables: from death rate heterogeneity in countries to candidates for mitigation strategies of severe COVID‐19
In:
Allergy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/all.14549
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)