We are delighted to welcome some new members to the team:

Clara Martin Pintado has joined as a Graduate Research Assistant in the NIHR Policy Research Programme (PRP).
Joelle Kirby has joined as a Research Fellow in Information Science and Public Health Evidence Synthesis in the NIHR Public Health Review Team.
Valdemar Santo has joined as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Health Economics and Health Policy in the Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG)

Welcome to ESMI and we look forward to working with all of you.

Congratulations to our colleagues within ESMI on their recent promotions to Senior Research Fellow: Simon Briscoe, Michael Nunns, Liz Shaw and Becky Whear.  We are all so proud of you and wish you all the very best in your SRF roles.  

Peninsula Technology Group (PenTAG) recently celebrated its 20th birthday with an event at Reed Hall Exeter.   

PenTAG was established in 2001 at the University of Exeter on a sub-contract to the Southampton  

Health Technology Assessment Centre and became a group in its own right in 2003.  It is now one of the most highly respected and well-established health technology assessment (HTA) groups in the UK.

As a team, we were devastated to say goodbye to our colleague and good friend Ken Stein who died in early February. Most of us in ESMI have Ken to thank for being here, whether it be through his setting up of PenTAG in 2001 or through the various iterations of the CLAHRC/ARC which he and Stuart Logan set up and directed from 2008/9. His loss will be felt deeply and he will always be remembered for his vision and values, and in Stuart’s words ‘a passion to improve people’s health, intense intellectual curiosity and his loyalty to the people he worked with’. Thank you Ken, for everything.