QQUIP research team

Sheila is a Research Professor in the School of Public Health at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Visiting Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Distinguished Associate of Darwin College at the University of Cambridge.

Sheila is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine at the US National Academy of Sciences (2002) where she serves on the Global Health Board, an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance (1997) and an Honorary Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians in the UK(2005).

Sheila conducts research and policy analysis internationally. In 1997, she was appointed by President Clinton in 1997 to the President’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry to develop a national strategy for quality measurement and reporting in the USA. She is co-author of a series of chartbooks on quality of healthcare in the USA, commissioned by The Commonwealth Fund.

In the UK, she was commissioned by The Nuffield Trust in 1997 to assess the proposed quality reforms for the NHS. She was also commissioned to evaluate the mid-term impact of the ten year quality agenda in the NHS, resulting in publication of the report The Quest for Quality in the NHS, in December 2003 and The Quest for Quality in the NHS; A Chartbook on Quality of Care in the UK (2005).

Gwyn is Professorof Management Science in both the Department of Management and LSE Health and Social Care at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gwyn has worked as an academic at Warwick Business School and in medical schools in London and Bristol. He has also worked in industry, consulting, the Treasury, and most recently for the Commission for Health Improvement where he was Director of the Office for Information on Healthcare Performance.

He has contributed to multidisciplinary evaluations of two major innovations in social policy: an extension of the scope of general practitioner fundholding in the NHS, and allowing public funds for legal aid to be spent on mediation to resolve disputes between separating and divorcing couples.

Gwyn's current research includes studies of performance assessment and regulation of healthcare, value for money in the NHS in England and modeling acute hospitals as a whole system for matching demand and supply to minimise waiting times. He is organiser of the multidisciplinary European Health Policy Group.

Peter is Director of the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York.  

Peter advises several UK government departments on finance and productivity issues, is a board member of the Audit Commission, and chairs the advisory board of the ONS Centre for the Measurement of Government Activity.  He has also acted as a consultant to many governments and international agencies, including the OECD, the World Health Organisation, the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the World Bank.

Peter has a special interest on the links between research evidence and policy and his current research interests include the financing, efficiency and performance management of public services, topics on which he has published widely. 

He was founding editor of the journal Health Care Management Science, and a member of council of the Royal Statistical Society.

Kim is a Senior Research Associate at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.  Her work concentrates on interactions between research evidence, policy and clinical practice within the NHS. 

Kim's current research interests focus on quality of healthcare, and organisational change.  In 1997 she was commissioned by The Nuffield Trust, with Sheila Leatherman, to conduct an assessment of the government’s ten-year quality agenda for the NHS and, in 2002-3, to undertake a mid-term review of progress in implementing that agenda.  The same team compiled a chartbook, published in July 2005, that depicted quality in healthcare across the UK. 

Her work has been published both in peer-reviewed journals, including British Medical Journal, Quality and Safety in Health Care, International Studies of Management and Organisation and Journal of Health Services Research and Policy.

She was also a contributing author to The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Organisational Behaviour (2005), a co-author of Organisational Change: A review for health care managers, professionals and researchers (for which she was awarded the British Association of Medical Managers’ Book of the Year Award 2002.