Professor Kerry Hood
Director & Senior Research Leader
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)
Professor Hood has a degree and PhD in Statistics and has worked in medical statistics since 1996. She spent the first part of her career focused on research in primary care and then in 2006 established the South East Wales Trials Unit and started to develop a broader research portfolio. Her specific methodological research interests are in trial design, outcome measurement and research inclusion with a particular focus on complex trials, whilst the topic areas she mainly focuses on are primary care, infections and learning disabilities. She is co-lead of the Trial Methodology Research Partnership Working Group for Trial Conduct.
Professor Hood 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 300 peer reviewed research publications and currently holds £20m of research grants. She is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Society for Academic Primary Care. Professor Hood is keen to develop career pathways for researchers and is a mentor on the Society for Academic Primary Care PHoCuS (Primary Healthcare Scientists) mentoring scheme and also mentors undergraduate medical students.
In the news:
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)