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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Superusers’ Engagement in Asthma Online Communities: Asynchronous Web-Based Interview Study
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/18185
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Early pandemic evaluation and enhanced surveillance of COVID-19 (EAVE II): protocol for an observational study using linked Scottish national data
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/ bmjopen-2020-039097
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Telemonitoring at scale for hypertension in primary care:: an implementation study
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003124
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Compliance of smokeless tobacco supply chain actors and products with Tobacco Control laws in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan: Protocol for a multi-centre sequential mixed-methods study
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036468
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
What’s the way out? Potential exit strategies from the COVID-19 lockdown
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.10.010370
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Developing and Applying a Formative Evaluation Framework for Health Information Technology Implementations: Qualitative Investigation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/15068
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The Burden of Skin and Subcutaneous Diseases in the United States From 1990 to 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2020.1573
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
ARIA digital anamorphosis: Digital transformation of health and care in airway diseases from research to practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/all.14422
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The Help for Hay Fever community pharmacy-based pilot randomised controlled trial for intermittent allergic rhinitis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-020-0180-4
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30105-3
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)