Meet the Team
We are a group of people passionate about systematic reviews. We believe systematic reviews play a very important role in improving people’s health and wellbeing. We’re excited to share the journey all the way through the different stages of a systematic review. We know we have much to learn from each other and we really want The People’s Review to help us achieve that. Above all, we want you to enjoy The People's Review.​​​
Éle Quinn​​​
Éle is a health researcher and PhD student. Her PhD is all about The People's Review. She believes that research is for everyone, and that we all have a right to access, use, and be included in research – especially health research. She is passionate about public and patient involvement (PPI) in health research, and using creative ways to make research more accessible, enjoyable and engaging! Before starting her PhD Éle worked as an occupational therapist in disability services. When Éle is not doing research related stuff she likes to spend her time running, drinking coffee in a cozy café or hiking. ​​​
Sinéad Hynes
Sinéad is a Senior Lecturer in occupational therapy in University of Galway. She started in this role in December 2015 following the completion of a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of British Columbia funded by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (US). Her research interest lie largely in the area of neurorehabiltation. Her research focuses on people with multiple sclerosis, older adults, people with brain injury and people with dementia. She is a strong advocate for PPI and Open Research. Other passions include all things bikes, beaches and mountains. ​​​
Chris Noone
Chris lectures psychology students and conducts research on how different communities, especially those who are marginalised in society, experience health and healthcare. Most of this work has been with LGBT+ communities, and in all of this work, Chris recognises the importance of Public and Patient Involvement. Teaching about and conducting research also means that understanding how evidence from lots of similar studies can be interpreted is vital. The People's Review will provide a way for communities to learn more about how this is done.
David Moher
David is a professor and clinical epidemiologist. He has spent his academic career pursuing many types research interests including developing the evidence base for how to conduct systematic reviews. He has developed important reporting guidelines including CONSORT 2024 and PRISMA 2020. These guidelines help researchers communicate their findings from trials and systematic reviews completely, precisely, and clearly for everyone. Over the last 10 years his research focus has been on the principles and practices of open science including data sharing and reproducibility. David was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Charlene Young
Charlene is a nominated and award-winning patient advocate. She became involved in health research due to her lived experience as a cancer patient. She uses her lived experience to raise awareness, support, and campaign for changes in cancer care (and beyond). Charlene sits on multiple boards and panels for charities, hospitals, and health organisations. She is chair of Healthwatch Southwark. In 2021, she was nominated for a Patient Ambassador Award for her contributions to improve the outreach of the Bone Cancer Research Trust’s Support & Information service for all communities. In 2023, Charlene was awarded Inspirational Mother of the Year.
Jeremy Holt
I am an inveterate PPIer. I have been involved in reviewing grant applications for the Health Research Board (HRB) as a Public Reviewer and I sit on the Public Advisory Board of the PPI Ignite Network. I am involved in lots of PPI type schemes in various capacities. I worked for Irish Rail for most of my career followed by a time at University College Cork as a general attendant, completing a BA in Sociology & Philosophy between shifts. When I retired I moved to a small island, Inis Bigil, off the west coast of Ireland. I worked as a carer for the HSE for a few years. I have been a widow for 9 years now. I am currently interrailing across Scandanavia – not bad for someone touching on 80! This photo is one that my grandaughter made.
Derek Stewart
I simply wonder. I like learning. In wondering, I wander amongst any aspects of research that will have me and some that don’t.
Involvement helps me understand my health. As a cancer patient of many years and more recently experiencing a mini-stroke, health research asks questions to help us all understand. It provides evidence for us to make better, more informed decisions. Wandering here…wondering whose review?
Maureen Smith
Maureen’s interest in health research stems from a diagnosis with a rare disease in childhood. She is a frequent healthcare user who is committed to improving involvement in research, health decisions and policies from patients, carers, and the public. Maureen chairs the Cochrane Consumer Network Executive and is involved in several projects where she partners with research teams to bring patient, carer, and public perspectives to their health research. She believes that science can be for everyone if it is accessible in language that is understandable. In her spare time, you can find Maureen travelling across Canada with her husband Jim in their trailer (a.k.a. caravan), providing good material (and photos from Jim) for her weekly travel blog.
Shaun Treweek
Shaun is a health services researcher interested in efficient trial design, particularly around inclusive recruitment and retention and the effective presentation of research evidence. He led the development of the NIHR INCLUDE Ethnicity Framework, a tool to help trialists design inclusive trials, PRO EDI, a tool to help systematic reviewers consider equity in their reviews, and PRECIS-2, a tool to match trial design decisions to what the users of the results need. He leads an initiative called Trial Forge (http://www.trialforge.org) that aims to be more systematic about how we identify, generate and use research evidence in making trial design, conduct, analysis and reporting decisions. Finally, Shaun is an Editor-in-Chief of the journal Trials.
Patricia Logullo
Patricia investigates how health research is planned, conducted, and reported. She currently works as a meta-researcher in the University of Oxford, trying to find solutions to help researchers and organisations communicate their findings completely, precisely and clearly for everyone. As a science communicator and a past journalist, she is concerned about how the public understands research, and recently she was delighted to find out that the best and fairest way to communicate about science is involving people in producing it. The People’s Review is a great opportunity to do exactly that.
Shoba Dawson
Shoba works as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield where she co-leads the Trial Forge Inclusive Research Centre which aims to increase evidence base for methodological approaches to improve inclusivity in trials therefore improving trial decision making, relevance and generalisability. Shoba’s research interests include inclusivity in trials, health equity, participatory research, patient and public involvement and engagement and evidence synthesis.
Ann O'Brien
I am a cross disciplinary researcher, and my work has focused on how community is created and valued in different settings: including sustainable communities, participation in online public engagement, cocreation in recovery education and hybrid/remote workers experience of value creation in rural communities. My work takes a cocreation and information sharing approach which aims to make research accessible to all. Fun fact about me: I was a horse-riding instructor and I often still long to work outside with nothing but the sky above me!
Shahed Hossain
Shahed is a physician trained in public health with 40 years of experience in working with the public health systems in Bangladesh, with WHO Bangladesh and as a research scientist with icddr,b. He has conducted community-based interventions, monitoring and evaluation of interventions, vaccine trials, operational, implementation and health systems research. He has participated and published several systematic reviews and impact evaluation papers with Cochrane, EPOC, EPPI Reviewer and 3iE groups. He is also engaged in teaching and training with the North South University, icddr,b and BSMMU.
Anna Noel-Storr
Anna is an information specialist (aka a librarian) who loves data, information, and tea. She looks after Cochrane Crowd — a citizen science platform that offers tasks aimed at finding reliable healthcare information. All of the tasks in The People's Review will be hosted within the Cochrane Crowd platform. Anna's work has instilled in her the power of collaboration As the saying goes, “alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Gordon Dooley
Gordon is managing director of Metaxis Ltd, a software company that has been involved with evidence-based healthcare since the 1990s. Metaxis works closely with Cochrane as developers of the Cochrane Crowd citizen science platform as well as other data management software. Metaxis also writes the PROSPERO register of protocols for systematic reviews and has been instrumental in developing a number of high-profile EBM databases over the years. Although Gordon does venture outside occasionally, he is at his happiest locked in a darkened room, slaving over a hot computer through the wee small hours of the night.
David Anstee
David is a senior software engineer at Metaxis Ltd. He is part of the team that has developed the Cochrane Crowd platform for use within The People's Review. David has a passion for creating software with a penchant for full-stack development. He enjoys solving complex problems and building innovative solutions. When not wrangling code or debugging, David likes to spend his time playing golf and walking his dog, but never at the same time.
