Dr Munira Essat
BSc, MSc, PhD
School of Medicine and Population Health
Senior Research Fellow
+44 114 222 0860
Full contact details
School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
- Profile
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I joined ScHARR in April 2009 after gaining a BSc in Chemistry with Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool, followed by an MSc in Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Development and then a PhD in Organic Chemistry from Loughborough University.
My work at ScHARR mainly involves undertaking systematic literature reviews (including meta-analysis) on various topics for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment Programme, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the UK Department of Health (DoH), the pharmaceutical industry and other research funding bodies.
- Research interests
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- Systematic review of evidence for clinical effectiveness in healthcare
- Health policy and decision making
- Application and development of methods for systematic reviewing and evidence synthesis
Recent and current projects
- What matters to children, parents or caregivers in dietary management of child and adolescent obesity: Synthesis of qualitative systematic reviews
- Framework development for action on health inequities in primary care
- Analysis of costs associated with different safety profiles of trazodone and other products used to treat depressive disorders
- Frequency of blood tests for inflammatory conditions treated with immune suppressing and biologic drugs
- Major Trauma Triage Study (MATTS)
- The Design, Development, Commissioning and Evaluation of Patient Focused Vascular Services
- A programme to develop and evaluate a complex intervention to achieve a high calorie diet for people with ALS (HighCALS)
- Publications
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- Research group
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Research Students:
Asrar Alhadi
- Teaching interests
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- I teach post graduate Masters students and supervise PhD students in a range of subjects including systematic reviews and critical appraisal techniques, meta-analysis, health research methods, and processes for health technology assessment.
- I am a module lead for Study Design and Systematic Review Methods module (HAR6169) on MSc Health Economics and Decision Modelling.
- I Co-lead ScHARR's bespoke training course on systematic reviewing.
- I am interested in supervising research students in areas such as systematic review methodology and reviews of complex interventions
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Member of ScHARR Technology Assessment Group (ScHARR-TAG)
- Member of ScHARR Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team
- Development officer for UoS BAME Staff Network
- Peer-reviewer for a number of Journals
- Grant proposal and research report reviewer for the NIHR
- Conference Abstract reviewers for Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) symposium