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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Impact of COVID-19 national lockdown on asthma exacerbations: interrupted time-series analysis of English primary care data
In:
Thorax
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Using Blueprints to promote interorganizational knowledge transfer in digital health initiatives—a qualitative exploration of a national change program in English hospitals
(9 pages)
In:
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab020
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Effectiveness of First Dose of COVID-19 Vaccines Against Hospital Admissions in Scotland: National Prospective Cohort Study of 5.4 Million People
Research output: › Working paper (Published) -
Association of socioeconomic deprivation with asthma care, outcomes, and deaths in Wales: A 5-year national linked primary and secondary care cohort study
In:
PLoS Medicine, vol. 18, pp. e1003497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003497
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Examining the effectiveness of telemonitoring with routinely acquired blood pressure data in primary care: challenges in the statistical analysis
In:
BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-021-01219-8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Potential Interplay between Nrf2, TRPA1, and TRPV1 in Nutrients for the Control of COVID-19
In:
International archives of allergy and immunology, pp. 1-15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000514204
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Assessing public support for extending smoke-free policies beyond enclosed public places and workplaces: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
In:
BMJ Open
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040167
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
The international Perinatal Outcomes in the Pandemic (iPOP) study: protocol
In:
Wellcome Open Research , vol. 6, pp. 21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16507.1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Real-time spatial health surveillance: Mapping the UK COVID-19 epidemic
In:
International journal of medical informatics, vol. 149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104400
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Identifying strategies to overcome roadblocks to utilising near real-time healthcare and administrative data to create a Scotland-wide learning health system
In:
Health Informatics Journal, vol. 27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458220977579
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)