Dasha is the lead for the ARC Northwest London Multimorbidity & Mental Health theme as well as the Child and Adolescent Mental Health research team in the Division of Psychiatry. She is also a practising Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Central and Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust’s Children and Young People's Eating Disorders Service. Her research focuses on risk factors and early intervention for child and adolescent mental disorder, including disordered eating behaviour, and seeks practical and scale-able solutions, from parent training to policy change, that directly influence outcomes. Dasha is National Specialist Advisor on Eating Disorders to NHS England, Past Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) Eating Disorders Faculty, and Past President of the Academy of Eating Disorders She has served on the NICE guideline committee for eating disorders and chaired development of the guidance on Medical Emergencies in Eating Disorders.

Benedict is a London-based GP and is the deputy lead of the ARC Northwest London Multimorbidity & Mental Health theme as well as the Digital Health theme. After qualifying at University College London in 2005, he was awarded an LLM in Legal Aspects of Medical Practice in 2009, an MD in 2014 and Fellowship of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics in 2020. He's authored more than 60 peer-reviewed papers, and his current research interests include antimicrobial resistance, diagnosis and management of long-term conditions and digital health. 

Amrit is a researcher in the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) at the Department of Health Sciences, Brunel University and an Honorary Research Associate at the Imperial College London. Amrit provides health economics support to the Best for You Project as well as the monthly evaluation seminars provided to the ARC team in partnership with Innovation and Evaluation Theme.

Before joining Brunel, Amrit was working on the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Nepal Injury Research supporting health economics across all projects at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Amrit has a particular research interest in health economics aspects of public health interventions.

Amrit is an Associate Editor in Frontiers in Public Health (Health Economics) and has reviewed several international peer-reviewed journals, including The Lancet Global Health, the BMJ, European Journal of Public Health, BMC Health Services Research, Systematic Reviews, and SAGE Open among others.

Dougal is a member of the ARC Northwest London Child Population Health theme. He previously returned from a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, where he studied health care policies affecting adolescents and young adults. Previously, he worked as a Clinical Advisor at the English Department of Health, leading a national project to develop, validate and implement national quality standards for adolescent care within the NHS. Since qualifying from Cambridge University in 1999, he has worked in a wide range of clinical roles, including international work in Turkmenistan, Pakistan and Bosnia. He has a MD(Res) in Adolescent Health Services from University College London and additional postgraduate qualifications in public health and health economics.

Jean is a Public Partner in the ARC Northwest London Multimorbidity & Mental Theme as a co-investigator on the Best for You study, based on her earlier career as a specialist teacher of vulnerable pupils, where she was seconded to the CAMHS (the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services). She particularly enjoys advocating alongside young people on their behalf. Jean was previously a CLAHRC Northwest London fellow and  has been involved in healthcare research as a public partner for many years. Initially with a focus on hearing loss, tinnitus and hearing aids. In recent years she has written opinion pieces for the BMJ and is also currently working closely with the BMJ on patient involvement in their International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare. 

Laura is the Lead for Improvement Science and Health Improvement in ARC Northwest London. Prior to joining Imperial College in 2011, she worked as a registered nurse in Ontario, Canada and obtained a Master’s in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Laura completed her PhD in the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London in 2019. Laura’s research focuses on understanding how healthcare systems can maximize investments and reduce waste to produce long term change for patient care. She is particularly interested in exploring the process of achieving sustainability and spread in practice and investigating how these processes can be influenced with the use of specific strategies and interventions. 

Michaela is a researcher with expertise in psychology and health services research. She completed her PhD in health policy evaluation, with a focus on improving fairness in access and quality of healthcare for those with long-term conditions and mental illness. Michaela applies mixed-methodology, epidemiology, and psychology for improving health inequalities and systems of health. Her research interests are producing care standards and monitoring strategies for person-centred and integrated care. She has delivered training and dissemination to audiences across diverse contexts and formats.

Michelle is a Public Partner working in the ARC Multimorbidity & Mental theme as a Co-investigator on the Best for You study. She has 23 years’ experience on GP Surgery Patient Participation Groups, including organising health and wellbeing awareness events, and 30 years’ experience delivering Stress Management and wellbeing training, and also as a Complementary Health Therapist. She has delivered training for charities, community groups, youth groups, schools, carers, NHS staff, hospices, mental health, and dementia care homes. She has worked with young people and adults experiencing stress and anxiety, and she provided wellbeing helpline support for Carers within Harrow during the pandemic. Before working in healthcare, Michelle trained in Drama and public speaking, and worked in Theatre in Education, with Youth Theatre Groups, a Young Women & Girls’ Community Music Project, and she provided individual mentoring and coaching for young people on self-confidence, anxiety, and public speaking. Michelle has lived-experience of multimorbidity and is a carer for elderly parents with complex multimorbidity conditions.  

“I am passionate about delivering joined-up care. I believe qualitative research and anecdotal evidence can inform/enhance quantitative research, and both are valid channels for feedback. The NHS asks, “How are we doing” I think we should also be finding ways to ask, “What do you need?” Collaboratively we can find ways to meaningfully engage and achieve more equitable outcomes, better person-centred care and to translate that engagement into exemplary practice.”

Nana is the Director of Division of Global Public Health at the Department of Health Sciences within the College of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences at Brunel University. Nana's work on Economics of Physical Activity has been used by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to formulate three national public health guidelines on exercise referral schemes, and brief advice for adults in primary care. Having won the Walduck Prize for Research Impact, Nana’s work further secured prestigious UK Department of Health funding to conduct the first ever English general population survey on the economics of physical activity. His interests in public health are wide-ranging. How primary care can improve health outcomes; whether financial incentives improve maternal and child health; and what the link between shopping vouchers and breastfeeding may be, are some of the public health questions Nana is keen to answer.

Sofia is a Research Associate in the Department of Brain Sciences and a member of the ARC Multimorbidity & Mental theme. She has experience in qualitative and mixed methods research, with a focus on the development of health and psychological interventions for children and young people. She has also worked with young people, parents and clinicians to co-design digital tools for self-management of chronic conditions, for critical care and infection control. She joined the Best For You Evaluation Team in September 2022.  She is responsible for managing the qualitative workstream of the study to evaluate the early phase and implementation of the program.

Stuart is a member of the ARC Northwest London Multimorbidity & Mental Health theme. Over the last 10 years he has been involved in a range of quality improvement projects in Northwest London, working in a range of specialities including acute medicine, primary care and mental health. Stuart was awarded a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2020 which explored the implementation and scale up of evidence-based guidelines in clinical services. Stuart has published over 25 peer-reviewed papers and contributed to teaching and supervision on the Master of Public Health at Imperial College London, University of Liverpool and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Susan is a member of the ARC Northwest London Multimorbidity & Mental Health theme. She is experienced in working with NHS and Social Care teams bringing improvement science methods expertise to support them to make evidence-based innovations. Current and recent research interests include the integration of paediatric and mental health services; improvement of multidisciplinary team working; patient and public involvement in service improvement initiatives and research; perioperative care; the impact of health service design on people living with multiple long-term health conditions; spread and scale-up of innovative services. She works for Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals NHS Trust and the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London.

Vian is a post-doctoral researcher in the ARC Northwest London Multimorbidity & Mental Health theme. Over the last 7 years she has been involved in a range of studies, from quality improvement projects to implementation evaluation. Vian was awarded a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London in 2023, which involved a mixed method evaluation of a NIHR Global Health Research Group on developing psychosocial interventions for mental healthcare in in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia and Uganda. Since October 2021 she has been a member of the ARC North Thames Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network, a part of the career development subcommittee.