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Stakeholder Data-Enabled Research Advisory Group (SRAG)

Stakeholder Data-Enabled Research Advisory Group (SRAG) will meet approximately twice per year, continuing the model of the legacy Research Advisory Group (RAG) to provide a forum for discussing the work of NHS England in supporting data enabled research.

SRAG will make use of its wide membership to contextualise NHS England's work through the lens of data-enabled researchers needs, also providing a horizon scan to understand emerging needs.  RAG and its individual members play a key role in identifying priority areas for advice; this began at the meeting of SRAG on 27 February 2024. 


Membership of this group

SRAG members, grouped under the research constituencies they represent, are detailed in the table below. 

Chairs

Co-chair of the Research Advisory Group Professor Patrick Chinnery Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-chair of the Research Advisory Group Professor Lucy Chappell

DHSC Chief Scientific Adviser

NIHR Chief Executive Officer

Academic and life science members

Academic representative Professor Sir Rory Collins Principal Investigator and Chief Executive of UK Biobank
Academic representative Professor Matt Brown Chief Scientific Officer, Genomics England
Academic representative Professor Sir Martin Landray Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology within the Nuffield Department of Population Health and Deputy Director of the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford
Academic representative Professor Sir Alex Markham  Professor of Medicine and Director of the MRC Medical Bioinformatics Centre in Leeds
Academic representative Professor Harry Hemingway Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University College London and Director of the Farr Institute in London
Academic representative Professor Cathie Sudlow Director, BHF Data Centre
Academic representative Kathy Rowan

Director of the NIHR Health and Social Care Delivery Research Programme, Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Academic representative Cheryl Battersby

NIHR Clinician Scientist and Clinical Senior Lecturer Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College London

Industry representative Dr Janet Valentine

Director Health Data and Digital Policy,

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)
Industry representative Andrew Davies ABHI Digital Health Lead
Academic representative Professor Gary Ford Chief Executive Officer of the Oxford Academic Health Science Network

Public and patient

Public and patient representative Various representatives use MY data

Funder representatives

Charity sector  Tariq Khokhar

Head of Data for Science and Health Priority Area

The Wellcome Trust
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Professor Jamie Pearce Health Geographer, University of Edinburgh 
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Dr Emma Gordon Director for Administrative Data Research Partnership Strategic Hub
Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) Nicola Perrin Chief Executive Officer
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Professor Alison Park

Interim Executive Chair

System level representatives

Health Data Research UK Professor Andrew Morris Professor of Medicine, Director Health Data Research UK and Vice-Principal Data Science at the University of Edinburgh
Health Data Research UK David Seymour  Partnership Director, HDRUK
Health Research Authority (HRA) Dr Janet Messer Director of Approvals Service at the Health Research Authority
Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) Dr Darren Lunn Head of Health Data Science
National Institute for Health Research Professor Danny McAuley Programme Director, NIHR Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation
Office of the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care Professor James Wilson Representing the National Data Guardian
Office for Life Sciences Colin Wilson Office for Life Sciences industrial strategy projects and genomics
Department of Health and Social Care Dr Gail Mazetti Director of Science, Research and Evidence (SRE)

Devolved Administrations

Health and Social Care Northern Ireland Dr Nicola Armstrong Programme Manager, HSC Research and Development Division
Public Health Scotland Carole Morris Head of Data and Modelling Services, Data and Digital Innovation
Welsh Government Alex Newberry Head of Research Governance, Public Involvement and Digital, Research and Development Directorate, Health and Social Services Group

NHS England Data Enabled Research Representatives

NHS England Ali Austin Deputy Director of Research 
NHS England Kathy Jeays-Ward Research and Innovation Lead
NHS England Dr Michael Chapman Director of Research and Clinical Trials 
NHS England Ming Tang Chief Data and Analytics Officer
NHS England Rebecca Cosgriff Deputy Director Data for Research and Development 
NHS England Jackie Gray Executive Director of Privacy, Transparency and Ethics 
NHS England Kirsty Irvine Chair,

Interim data advisory group

NHS England  Liz Gaffney Head of Data Access
NHS England 

Shavaun Glen

Senior communications manager

SRAG sponsorship team

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) Justin Riordan-Jones Head of Systems and Information (Research)
Medical Research Council (MRC) Dr Alex Bailey  Programme manager
NHS England Estelle Spence Head of strategic engagement, research and life sciences
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Beccy Shipman Deputy Director of Data Strategy and Infastructure

Minutes

2024

Last edited: 12 August 2024 11:08 am