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You can find out more about each member of staff, including their latest publications and their contact details by following the links below.

CHIR Co-directors

Harry Scarbrough, older white man in a suit, with greying hair, pictured in a blue circle.Harry Scarbrough

Prof Harry Scarbrough is Co-director of CHIR and a Professor in Information Systems and Management at City's Business School, and brings a wealth of experience in research on healthcare innovation and knowledge translation. This includes the role of Principal Investigator on a major NIHR-funded study of the role of social networks in bridging the gap between research and practice in healthcare settings.

He was Director of the ESRC research programme on ‘The Evolution of Business Knowledge’, and has also led ESRC and EPSRC-funded studies of innovation in a range of other sectors, including manufacturing, financial services, and video games. His work has been published in leading international journals, including Organization Studies, Social Science and Medicine, and Information Systems Research.

Charitini Stavropoulou, white woman with chin-length brown hair, pictured in a yellow circle.Charitini Stavropoulou

Dr Charitini Stavropoulou is Co-director of CHIR and a Reader at City's School of Health and Psychological Sciences. She is a health services researcher, with a background in health economics and policy. She has been interested in the role patients play in health and health care and she has more recently started doing research on the impact that funded health research has on academic, economic and social outcomes and innovation in the UK. Charitini’s work has appeared in leading international journals, including The BMJ, The Lancet Public Health, Milbank Quarterly, Social Science and Medicine and Journal of Health Economics among others. She has received funding from different bodies, including The Health Foundation, NIHR and The Royal Marsden.

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CHIR Research Team

Kyriaki Giorgakoudi, young white woman with long straight dark hair with a side parting, in a yellow circle.Kyriaki Giorgakoudi

Dr Kyriaki Giorgakoudi is an SHPS Senior Research Fellow (substantive post) at City's School of Health and Psychological Sciences. She is the leader of CHIR's Economic Evaluation workstream.

Kyriaki is a mathematical modeller and health economist interested in applying quantitative methods in interdisciplinary health research. Her experience includes research in veterinary, human and zoonotic infectious diseases, vaccines, cancer-related innovations, mental health, food policy and science communication. She is currently leading work-packages in several NIHR-funded studies and works closely with the NHS. Kyriaki is the CHIR Impact Lead and a Fellow of Advance HE.

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Anita MehayAnita Mehay

Dr Anita Mehay is a Senior Research Fellow at CHIR. She is a chartered Health Psychologist with an interest in developing, spreading and embedding innovations to tackle health inequalities, particularly those relating to race and ethnicity. She has worked across a variety of health and social care services as well as diverse community contexts including maternity healthcare, children and family services, prisons and offender care. Anita has been successful in securing grants from various agencies including the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Youth Endowment Fund, UK Department for Work and Pensions, Ministry of Justice, and the Greater London Authority. Her work has appeared in leading journals including The Lancet, BMC Medicine, Journal of Public Health, Health & Place, BMJOpen among others and has featured in the IPPR Progressive Review, Public Sector Focus and HSJ.

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Katie Rose Sanfilippo

Dr Katie Rose Mahon Sanfilippo is a Presidential Research Fellow at SHPS and a member of the Centre for Healthcare Innovation Research. Her overall research interests concern the function and application of music and the arts within healthcare contexts to address health inequalities. Her current research is investigating how community and arts-based approaches and interventions can be scaled up, spread and sustained more equitably in the UK and globally, with a focus on resource-constrained settings. She also works with various policymakers, charities and health organisations to promote maternal mental health in the educational and health policy agendas in The Gambia and across Africa. She is an affiliated lecturer in Cambridge within the music faculty and also has extensive experience working in the charity sector in the UK.

Follow Katie Rose Sanfilippo @krsanfili


Mengjun Wu

Dr Mengjun Wu is a Research Fellow at City’s School of Health and Psychological Sciences.

Mengjun is a health economist and quantitative researcher. She has worked across a variety of health-related research topics, including prisoner’s mental and physical well-beings, dental services in prison, hearing, dementia, stroke, child psychology and mental health.

Her research interests lie in health economics, epidemiology and public health, and undertaking health economic evaluations to understand and use of economic evidence in decision making.


Emma XueEmma Xue

Emma Xue is a Research Assistant at City’s School of Health and Psychological Sciences. She holds a BSc in Economics and Finance, and an MSc in International Health Policy (Health Economics). She has experience in evidence synthesis for pharmaceutical products to help them achieve market access. Her interest lies in conducting health economic evaluations to facilitate evidence-based decision-making, especially around the area of oncology.

Emma’s current research includes an economic evaluation on alternative pathways in adaptive radiotherapy, and validation of a health resource utilisation questionnaire that can be used in economic evaluations.

Zuhur Balayah, young black woman in a headscarf, in a grey circle.Zuhur Balayah

Zuhur Balayah is a research student and PhD Candidate at CHIR. Zuhur's PhD research focuses on the ways in which the speed and effectiveness of the implementation of innovations in NHS organizations may be enhanced by learning from the experience of other sites. She is interested in exploring how forms of social learning relate to achieving implementation outcomes, by exploring the possible value of vicarious learning from other implementation sites for implementing organizations. Her current research looks at conceptualising implementation depth of healthcare innovations. Prior to beginning her PhD, Zuhur held a research position within the Centre for Implementation Science at King’s College London. She holds a BSc in Pharmacology and an MSc in Public Health.

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Luke O'NeillLuke O’Neill

Luke O’Neill is a research student and a PhD Candidate at City's School of Health and Psychological Sciences. Luke’s PhD research is evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of One Health vaccination strategies. To better understand the dynamics, I shall develop a framework of mathematical models which will incorporate health economics for both animals and humans. Through the evaluation of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of One Health vaccination strategies, I will identify optimal vaccination strategies for both RVF and CCHF. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this work aims to support policy makers in development and implementation of preparedness plans for both diseases in the future.

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CHIR Associated Research Team

Raheelah Ahmad, south Asian woman with dark hair in a pony tail, in an orange circle.Raheelah Ahmad

Dr Raheelah Ahmad is a Reader in Health Systems at the School of Health and Psychological Sciences.

Raheelah leads the Health Management and Leadership and the Innovation and Change teaching on the Health Management MSc programme.

She contributes an international health dimension as well as key considerations from a knowledge mobilisation perspective at the macro-strategic level.

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Sabrina Germain, young white woman with long, dark straight hair, in a grey circle.Sabrina Germain

Dr Sabrina Germain is a Reader in Healthcare Law and Policy at The City Law School. Her research interests lies in the connections between public and private entities in healthcare law.

She is most interested in the role of medical profession in the elaboration of healthcare reforms and questions of resource allocation for the British, Canadian and American healthcare systems.

Dr Germain is a member of the Central London NHS Research Ethics Committee and a research associate at University of Montreal’s Health Hub: Politics, Organizations and Law (H-POD).

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Amit Nigam, South Asian man with short curly dark hair, a beard and glasses, in a blue circle.

Amit Nigam

Prof Amit Nigam is a Professor in Management at City's Business School.

His research focuses on the change in work within and across professions and on processes of organizational change two themes that are crucial to understanding the healthcare innovation.

Embedding innovation in healthcare involves significant organizational change, as well as the change to professional work. This process will be more likely if professionals in healthcare settings act and interact in ways that embrace innovation and cement them into new ways of working.


CHIR Advisory Board

  • Rifat Atun - Harvard University
  • Amanda Begley - UCLP
  • Alex Boys - NAVCA
  • Gary Ford - AHSN
  • Neil Gowe - iRhythm
  • Zisis KozlakidisWHO
  • Zoe Lord - NHS Horizons
  • Sonja Marjanovic - RAND Corporation
  • Graham Martin - THIS institute
  • Eivor Oborn - Warwick Business School
  • Shani Shamah - Patient and Public Involvement subject matter expert, UK
  • Sanjiv Sharma - GOSH

CHIR Honorary Fellows

Adrian Baker, young white man with short curly brown hair and glasses, in a grey circle.
Adrian Baker - Senior Manager, Innovation, Research & Life Sciences Group, NHS England and NHS Improvement , UK

Nick Ibery, white man with short dark hair and wearing a suit jacket, in an orange circle.
Nick Ibery - Senior health and life science VC and policy advisor, UK

Milou Silkins, young white woman with brown hair a pony tail, in a blue circle.
Milou Silkens -Associate Professor, Department of Health Services Management & Organisation (HSMO), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Yiannis Kyratsis, white man with short dark hair greying at the sides, in a yellow circle.
Yiannis Kyratsis - Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Organization Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , The Netherlands

Radhika (Sriskandarajah) Narasinkan, South Asian with long dark hair with a side parting, in a blue circle.
Radhika (Sriskandarajah) Narasinkan - Head of Data Driven Development, Health Intelligence/Health Improvement Directorate, Public Health England, UK