Professor Kerry Hood

Health and Care Research funding award:  

Award: NHS Research Time Award (April 2020 - June 2021)

Project title: Evaluate the impact of a medicines Safety Needs Indicator Tool in Child Health (SNITCH)

Kerry is a Professor of Trials and Dean of Research & Innovation for the College of Biomedical & Life Sciences at Cardiff University. She is also the Director of the UKCRC registered CTU Network for the UK.  

She has a degree and PhD in Statistics and has worked in medical statistics since 1996. The first part of her career was focussed on research in primary care and then in 2006 she established the South East Wales Trials Unit and started to develop a broader research portfolio. In 2015 she was appointed to lead the merger of three CTUs at Cardiff University and created the Centre for Trial Research, where she was the Director until 2023.  

Her specific methodological research interests are in trial design, trial conduct and research inclusion with a particular focus on complex trials, whilst the topic areas she mainly focuses on are primary care and infections. She collaborates widely across the UK and Europe on research studies from a broad range of funders including NIHR, UKRI, EU and industry. She has over 360 peer reviewed research publications and currently holds £32M of research grants as a co-applicant. She is a Fellow and Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society and the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Society for Academic Primary Care and the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 

In the news: 

Faculty webinar - What a NIHR HTA panel looks for in a competitive funding application with Professor Kerry Hood (June 2023)

Wales to play major role in national trial for COVID-19 vaccine (May 2022)

Health and Care Research Wales invests in leaders across Wales to shape the research of the future (April 2022)

“I’m taking part for my son” - COVID-19 antiviral trial recruits 1000th participant in Wales (March 2022)

Help researchers from your sofa following a positive COVID-19 test (January 2022)

Wales plays key role in finding safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine (December 2021)

Wales to play major role in UK-wide antiviral study into new treatments for COVID-19 (December 2021)