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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Segmentation and shielding of the most vulnerable members of the population as elements of an exit strategy from COVID-19 lockdown
In:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0275
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
An external validation of the QCovid risk prediction algorithm for risk of mortality from COVID-19 in adults: a national validation cohort study in England
In:
The Lancet Digital Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(21)00080-7
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on the incidence and mortality of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: national interrupted time series analyses for Scotland and Wales
In:
BMC Medicine, vol. 19, pp. 124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-02000-w
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Understanding Public Perceptions of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Social Media Analysis
In:
Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 23, pp. e26618
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/26618
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Health information technology and digital innovation for national learning health and care systems
In:
The Lancet Digital Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(21)00005-4
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (E-pub ahead of print) -
LSE-Lancet Commission on the future of the NHS: re-laying the foundations for an equitable and efficient health and care service after COVID-19
In:
The Lancet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00232-4
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Study protocol of the Edinburgh and Lothian Virus Intervention Study in Kids: a randomised controlled trial of hypertonic saline nose drops in children with upper respiratory tract infections (ELVIS Kids)
In:
BMJ Open, vol. 11, pp. e049964
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049964
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The implementation, use and sustainability of a clinical decision support system for medication optimisation in primary care: A qualitative evaluation
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 16, pp. e0250946
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250946
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a community-based smoke-free-home intervention with or without indoor-air-quality feedback in Bangladesh (MCLASS II): a three-arm, cluster-randomised, controlled trial
In:
The Lancet Global Health, vol. 9, pp. e639-e650
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00040-1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Interim findings from first-dose mass COVID-19 vaccination roll-out and COVID-19 hospital admissions in Scotland: a national prospective cohort study
In:
The Lancet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00677-2
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)