Dr Simon Briscoe

Simon joined the University of Exeter Medical School in September 2012. Since April 2020 he has primarily worked with the Exeter PRP Evidence Review Facility as a systematic reviewer and information specialist. His work involves carrying out systematic reviews and other types of evidence synthesis commissioned by the NIHR Policy Research Programme to inform health and social care policy in the UK.

Simon came to systematic reviews through an information specialist post at the University of Warwick in 2011-2012. This followed working in a library setting in a large teaching hospital in North West England. His academic career has mainly been funded by NIHR programme grants, including HSDR, PenARC and PRP programme grants. He has also been a co-applicant on several HSDR funded realist reviews, and HSDR and HTA funded systematic reviews, both as a systematic reviewer and information specialist.

Alongside his NIHR funded work, Simon has developed an interest and publication track record in systematic review methods research, which was the focus of his PhD. More recently he has worked on projects and related outputs with a health equity dimension, which is a current area of interest, including here, here and here.