Staff profiles

Dr Olatunde Aremu

Health Economist & Joint Programme Leader, Master of Public Health (MPH)

Dr. Aremu specialises in Health Economics and Management and Population health. Dr. Aremu completed doctoral training at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. He has more than 15 years of experience spanning MedTech consulting, Public Health, clinical practice and academia. Dr. Aremu has held a couple of postdoctoral academic...

Dr Fouad Berrahou

Senior Lecturer (subject lead), Health Leadership and Management

Dr Fouad Berrahou joined the University in 2014 as Subject Lead in Health Leadership and Management and Programme Director for the online MBA in Health. In 2010, founded a start-up company, Founouvel Informatics, Inc., in Oran, Algeria and directed the development and testing of an intuitive and integrated electronic health...

Dr Debra Evans

Senior Lecturer

Debra has taught at BCU for over 24 years. The principal subjects she teaches are topics related to research and evidence-based practice mainly at Master’s and degree level. Debra is very interested in equipping health students with research skills to evaluate the effectiveness of health care interventions – basically getting...

Dr Basiru Gai

Lecturer in Public Health

Basiru is a medical doctor with extensive experience in improving health outcomes in low and middle-income countries. With a solid foundation in clinical practice, he has transitioned into the area of Public Health and holds a Master's Degree in Public Health from Birmingham City University, which later paved his academic...

Katharine Hardware

Programme Director, Non-Medical Prescribing.

Katharine teaches on the following courses: Independent and Supplementary Prescribing for Nurses Supplementary Prescribing for Allied Health professionals (V300) at Levels 6 and 7 Prescribing from the Community Practitioner Formulary (V150)

Dr Angela Hewett PhD, CPsychol

Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology

Angela specialises in health psychology and has a keen interest in gender and health. She is particularly interested in women’s reproductive health psychology. She also has experience of working in practice as a Health Promotion Coordinator, with a focus on mental health promotion. Angela is interested in differences in...

Dr Chris Inman

Senior Lecturer

Chris is a registered nurse with about 15 years' post-qualifying experience prior to employment in education at the University of Hull and then as Head of Nursing Development at the Open University in Milton Keynes. At Birmingham City University she has many years of experience directing the MSc Advanced Practice/MSc Health...

Shirley Kirnon

Senior Lecturer, Infection Prevention and Control

Shirley's professional background is in nursing and she specialises in teaching Infection Prevention and Control, which is a specialism within the health protection strand of Public Health. She is involved in teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, across the various healthcare disciplines.

Dr Anne Robbins

Senior Lecturer, Public Health

Anne's background is in public health and health promotion, on research based projects at a local, regional and national level. This has been within the NHS, Local Authorities, BBC and National Charities. She has undertaken a wide range of research and consultancy appointments on health promotion and public health which have...

Claire J Roberts

Head of Nursing and Midwifery

Claire gained her B.Nurs (Hons)/RGN/HV in Manchester University (1995) and went to work at Birmingham Children's Hospital on P.I.C.U. She gained her RSCN and ENB 415 before she moved into a Health Visitor role. Since joining Birmingham City University in 2004, she has enjoyed a variety of roles including module leader;...