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...

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...

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.

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;...

Sue Shortland

Associate Professor – Primary Care

Sue qualified as a registered nurse in 1984 and a registered midwife in 1986. Sue worked for over 20 years in general practice as a general practice nurse and then as an advanced nurse practitioner and non-medical prescriber. Sue joined Birmingham City University in 2008 as a Senior Lecturer on the MSc Advanced Practice Course...

Paula Smith

Senior Lecturer and Joint Programme Leader, Master of Public Health (MPH)

Paula Smith brings a wide range of experience, knowledge and skills to her post including: Practitioner roles - Public Health/Health Promotion practice leading on the implementation of the Dudley Health Inequalities Strategy (for Dudley Community Partnership – job-share); Senior Health Promotion Officer (Community...

Dr Nasrin Soltani

Lecturer in Public Health

Nasrin qualified as a midwife and worked in maternity wards, delivering babies in deprived towns of Iran. She then studied an MSc in Psychology and worked as a child and adolescent psychologist. In the UK, she achieved her second MSc in Health Psychology before achieving a PhD in Health Studies. Nasrin’s PhD research...