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Neil Craig​
​Neil is Professor of Public Health Economics in the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University. He has interests in health economics, in particular public health economics; the economics of prevention, including prevention aimed at addressing the social determinants of health; and the evaluation (including economic evaluation) of public health interventions. He was a co-author on the guidelines for evaluating of complex public health interventions, commissioned jointly by the Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR, and a member of the International Interdisciplinary Advisory Group for an NIHR-funded project developing realist economic evaluation methods. He has previously worked on the evaluation of Minimum Unit Pricing for alcohol, citizens’ basic income, the increase in the funded hours of early learning and childcare and 20mph speed limits in Edinburgh and Belfast.
Micaela Mazzei
Micaela is a Reader in social economy whose work focuses on the social economy and social innovation. Her research uses place‑based and organisational analysis to: i) examine contextual determinants of social enterprise performance; ii) understand diverse local and regional economies; and iii) analyse co‑production models with the third sector. Her experience also includes evaluating place-based regeneration programmes and she is currently Scotland Section Chair of the RSA.
Margaret Munro
As Centre Senior Administrator, Margaret leads and co-ordinates administrative support for the Yunus Centre. Margaret works closely with the Economics of Health & Wellbeing team and is lead administrator for a number of externally-funded research projects including the NIHR CommonHealth Assets project and large scale conferences at the Yunus Centre.
Mohasin Ahmed
Mohasin is a public health practitioner specialising in community engagement in research and LGBT+ and racialised health inequalities. They have a vast experience of working and volunteering with local community-led organisations and charities across Glasgow and Edinburgh, and is passionate about community-led approaches to tackling social and health inequalities.
Rachel Baker​
Rachel is Yunus Chair and Director of the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University.
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Rachel focuses on two main areas of research broadly concerned with i) societal values and resource allocation for health and wellbeing and ii) social innovation, community infrastructure and health inequalities.
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She has recently led a large, collaborative study exploring community-led organisations in disadvantaged areas in the UK, and how they impact on health and wellbeing. Funded by the National Institute for Health Research, the Common Health Assets project (2021-2024) involves 14 community organisations, 3 community sector network organisations and 5 universities in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland.
Heather Brown
Heather Brown is a Professor of Health Inequalities at Lancaster University. Her main research interests are the economics causes and consequences of health inequalities and policy evaluation. Heather uses large datasets including linked data to evaluate policy as well as identify current trends and areas for future policy and interventions. She is also interested in engaging with a wide range of stakeholders to make complex quantitative data analysis accessible and user friendly.
Corinna Elsenbroich
Corinna Elsenbroich is a Reader in Computational Modelling at the Healthy Social Systems Lab at the University of Glasgow. She is a sociologist working at the intersection of methodological innovation and policy impact. Her research interests are a) complexity social science methods, their foundations and applications, and b) understanding inequalities resulting from economic, social and health policies, for example housing market dynamics, community wealth building and social interactions.
Jayne Galinksy
Jayne is the Research Fellow on the CoWBELLS study. Jayne holds a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Stirling and previously worked as a Research Economist at RTI-Health Solutions, working on patient preference studies for use in HTA and regulatory decision making. Prior to this, Jayne was Head of Research at Myeloma UK and Myeloma Patients Europe, where she worked on preference studies generating evidence for HTA in the UK and Europe. She has been part of international consortium projects such as IMI-PREFER and SISAQOL-IMI, generating guidance on how to use patient preference data in medical product decision making, and how to analyse PRO data in cancer clinical trials. Jayne has experience of working on mixed methods research projects across the academic, private, and public sectors and has interests in health economics and decision making in Scotland.
Dani Hutcheon
Dani is a Research Fellow at the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, GCU. Her research interests are community led interventions for the health and wellbeing of underserved populations, and the impacts of community asset ownership on community resilience and empowerment. Dani brings specific expertise on policy and practice on community ownership across the UK. Dani holds a PhD in Public Health from Liverpool John Moores University.
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Jim Lewsey
​Jim is a chartered statistician, appointed by the Royal Statistical Society in 2010, and has a long standing interest and experience in using routinely collected health data for undertaking health research. His current research portfolio is made up of evaluating public health interventions using (controlled) interrupted time series designs, alcohol research and decision analytic modelling for economic evaluation using individual patient data. He has developed, translated, and applied cutting-edge methodologies to my research, including synthetic controls, instrumental variable analysis and multi-state survival analysis modelling.​​
Gerry McCartney
Gerry McCartney is Professor of Wellbeing Economy at the University of Glasgow. He is currently developing a programme of research and teaching on how to redesign economies to better serve ecological, social and health outcomes. He is a honorary Consultant in Public Health at Public Health Scotland, and continues to work on the causes of mortality and health inequality trends. ​​
Jen McLean
Jennifer is Interim Director at the Glasgow Centre for Population Health where alongside Centre management responsibilities, she leads a research programme exploring innovative approaches for improving outcomes, community-based responses to population health improvement and patient and public involvement in research. Jennifer is also an honorary lecturer at the University of Glasgow