Meet the team

Evidence & Learning for Health is Ealing's Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) and is a partnership between Ealing Council, local community groups and universities.

Ealing Council

Dr Vaishnavee Madden

Director, HDRC Ealing

Shana Nessa

Programme Manager, HDRC Ealing

Arizona Hartley-Forbes

Project Officer, HDRC Ealing

Dr Rosie Rowe

Research Capacity Lead, HDRC Ealing

Dr Bayparvah Kaur Gehdu

Participatory Research Specialist, HDRC Ealing

Lily Mellor

Evaluation Specialist, HDRC Ealing

Jenny Davies

Research Data Scientist, HDRC Ealing

Grace Hanke

Communications and Engagement Lead, HDRC Ealing

Rajiv Ahlawat

Head of Research and Insight, Ealing Council

You can get in touch with us at: HDRC@ealing.gov.uk

Community groups 

Gurpreet Rana

Chief Executive, Ealing and Hounslow Community Voluntary Service (EHCVS)

Sharmarke Diriye

CEO,
Golden Opportunity Skills and Development (GOS&D)

Janpal Basran

Manager, Southall Community Alliance

Universities

Dr Elizabeth McGill

Assistant Professor of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Professor Matt Egan

Professor of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Dr Vanessa Er

Assistant Professor of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Dr Jo Howard

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies

Mariah Cannon

Researcher, Institute of Development Studies

Dr Santi Ripoll

Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies

Janine Shaw

Researcher, Institute of Development Studies

Dr Christina Atchison

Principal Clinical Academic Fellow, Imperial Collage

Ganesh Sathyamoorthy

Assistant Director, Ethnicity & Health Unit, Imperial Collage

Board members

Our board includes academic and community representatives who are independent of the programme. They help provide oversight and constructive challenge to our work.

Marie Snelling

Interim Strategic Director, Strategy & Change, Ealing Council

Lucy Clark

Programme Director, MindFood

Edmund Akeju

Chief Executive, West London Equality Centre

Professor Graeme Atherton

Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Regional Engagement, University of West London

Professor Fiona Verity

Professor of Social Work, Brunel University

Anna Bryden

Director of Public Health, Ealing Council