The University of Sheffield
Centre for Health and Wellbeing in Public Policy

Management group

The Centre is administered by a management group, headed by Professor Aki Tsuchiya. The management group includes representation over a broad range of research interests.

Each person's name below links through to their personal departmental website profile.

Aki Tsuchiya (Director of CWiPP) is a Professor of Health Economics with a joint appointment between the Department of Economics and the School of Health and Related Research. She has a research interest in the measurement and valuation of health and wellbeing; and in the valuation of inequalities in these.
Dimitris Ballas (Deputy Director of CWIPP) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography. His current research interests include economic geography, social and spatial inequalities, social justice, exploring geographies of happiness and well-being and socio-economic applications of
GIS.
Chris Armitage is a Health Psychologist registered with the Health Professions Council and is based in the Department of Psychology. He has research interests in psychological intervention and behaviour change.
Ian Bache is a Professor in the Department of Politics. He has research interests in understanding how well-being has risen up the agenda in a range of political arenas and the potential implications for politics and policy of new measures of social progress.
John Brazier is a Professor of Health Economics at the School of Health and Related Research. He has an interest in the measurement and valuation of health and well-being for use in economic evaluation of health and social care interventions.
Emma Everson-Hock (CWIPP seminar organiser) is a research associate in the School of Health and Related Research. Her research interest in well-being relates to health behaviour change, particularly in physical activity and/or smoking cessation as well as interventions and relationships between building design, postnatal depression, chronic illness (e.g. cancer) and well-being.
Rebecca Goodchild is the cross-cutting income capture officer for healthcare across the disciplines at the University of Sheffield. She provides support on funding opportunities and events on this theme related to CWiPP objectives.
Liddy Goyder is Professor of Public Health in the School of Health and Related Research. Her research interests focus on the development of the evidence base for public health interventions and aims to ensure that policy and practice in public health is based on the best available evidence.
Ben Hennig  is a research associate in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield. His works in the field of well-being include the research on analysing issues of happiness and well-being in their geographical distribution and including them in maps and other forms of geovisualisation.
Jian Kang is a Professor in the School of Architecture. His research interests are in architectural/environmental acoustics and noise control.
Melanie Knight is the cross-cutting income capture officer for energy and environment theme at the University of Sheffield. She provides support on funding opportunities and events on this theme related to CWiPP objectives.
Josie Messina (CWIPP seminar organiser) is a research associate in Public Health within the School of Health and Related Research, specialising in systematic reviewing and qualitative methodology. She has a research interest in lifestyle and behaviour modification research, as well as public health intervention research.
Clara Mukuria (CWIPP webpage administrator) is a health economist in the School of Health and Related Research. She has an interest in measuring and valuing well-being and health.
Tessa Peasgood is a health economist in the School of Health and Related Research. She has an interest in measuring well-being for public policy purposes, and exploring the determinants of well-being.
Kate Reed is a Senior Lecture in Medical Sociology in the Department of Sociological Studies. She has a research interest in sociology of health and illness, gender, social theory, race and ethnicity.
Donna Rowen is a health economist in the School of Health and Related Research. She has a research interest in the measurement and valuation of health and well-being.
Joanna Shapland is a Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Law. She has an interest in measuring the effects of crime on victims (QALYs on victimisation), in cost-benefit analysis of criminal justice initiatives, in the economic cost of crime and in the informal economy.