Team

SysteMatic Core Team

Reviewers requested detail about community psychiatry representation: our core team includes two community-facing psychiatrists and the co-directors of the NIHR Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre who also have leadership positions in the NHS partner mental health trust.

Another reviewer asked about the lead applicant’s MLTC research – this includes writing a book chapter on the need for MLTC systems engineering in 2009 1 and founding CHIL to address major population health challenges including MLTC with interdisciplinary research. A further reviewer asks about policy influence: we have a track record of policy research ranging from widely-cited equity work on the North-South divide to data/digital/systems policies such as starting the #DataSavesLives movement, delivering Connected Health Cities and current work on networking learning health systems.

Developing and Training Early Career Researchers (ECRs)

From Stage 1 we have enabled ECRs to pursue MLTC research (e.g. Driver project P4 is led by a clinical academic nurse with a new grant in MLTC data science from Stage 1 work), and in Stage 2 we will provide support for ECRs to take the lead on academic publications and be involved as co-investigators on subsequent grant applications through mentorship and buddying with experienced team members. We have budgeted for ECRs to travel and meet as a community, developing careers around MLTC challenges and have a track record of world leading capacity building in MLTC research.

References

1. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/4th_paradigm_book_part2_buchan.pdf