• Ethnicity and health
• The social consequences of sickle cell and thalassaemia disorders
• Health and social care in multi-cultural societies

• Systematic reviews
• Cochrane Wounds Group

• Personality and emotional intelligence in healthcare communication

• Economics of health policy
• Economic evaluation of cochlear implants
• Labour markets and health

• Evaluation of diagnostic tests
• Reporting of medical images
• Musculoskeletal conditions

• Childbirth
• Breast feeding

• Cardiac rehabilitation
• Heart failure care and management
• On-line learning for nurses
• Objective structured clinical exams for nurses

• Systematic reviews
• Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts)

• Computer and information literacy
• Educational technology
• Computer software design

• Health economics
• Economic evaluation of health technology

• Systematic reviews
• Systematic review methodology
• Cancer services
• The use of research evidence to inform health policy

• Learning disability advocacy/empowerment
• Augmented communication
• Autism

• Evidence-based nursing
• Palliative care
• Synthesis of qualitative and quantitative research

• Neurosurgical nursing

• Medical databases: content, coverage, how to search
• Finding medical research: searching databases and the internet

• Economic analysis of primary care
• Analysis of incentives, budgets and performance indicators

• Psychosocial aspects of childbearing
• Screening in pregnancy and after
• Social and ethnic inequalities in maternity care

• Dual diagnosis (mental health and substance misuse)
• Substance misuse
• Drug interactions
• Social inclusion
• Homelessness
• Care systems

• Paediatric cardiothoracic nursing
• Paediatric intensive care nursing
• Nursing research and evidence-based nursing

• Bioethics
• Medical ethics
• Nursing ethics
• Philosophical ethics

• Health policy - performance management
• Hospital costs and efficiency
• Budgets and incentives in primary care

• Clinical health psychology
• Cognitive behavioural chronic disease management
• Rehabilitation
• Self-management of chronic illness

Dr Marika Kullberg
Lecturer in immunology in the Immunology and Infection Unit in the Department of Biology and Hull York Medical School

• Cellular and mucosal immunology
• CD4 T helper cells
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Helicobacter infection

Karin Lowson
Project Director, York Health Economics Consortium

• Costing
• Financial analysis
• Information processes
• Health economics
• Strategic reviews

• Diabetes mellitus
• Hypoglycaemia

• Complementary and alternative medicine

• Workforce productivity
• Healthcare reform
• Primary care
• Illicit drugs

• Skill mix in nursing
• Nurses' use of information in decision-making
• Nurse independent prescribing in primary care

• Costs of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs to society
• Economic evaluation of substance misuse interventions
• Costing substance misuse services
• Treatment for the addiction to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs

• Evaluation of new nursing roles
• Evaluation of interventions promoting behaviour change
• Chronic disease management
• Heart failure

Anne Phillips
Department of Health Sciences

• Diabetes mellitus
• Diabetes education for healthcare professionals

• Epidemiology
• Health inequalities
• Social determinants of health
• Smoking in pregnancy

Professor Mary Renfrew
Professor in the Department of Health Sciences

• Mother and infant health and nutrition

• Trial management
• Complementary and alternative medicine
• Magnet therapy
• Research ethics

Professor Mark Sculpher
Professor in the Centre for Health Economics

• Economic evaluation in healthcare
• Rationing in healthcare and the NHS
• Measuring health outcomes
• Regulating healthcare technologies

Professor Trevor Sheldon
Professor in the Department of Health Sciences

• Assessing the clinical and cost-effectiveness of healthcare, including the systematic review of research evidence
• Resource allocation in health services to promote geographical equity and efficiency
• Promoting health policy on research evidence
• Quality in healthcare delivery
• The effects of health service organisation and outcomes

• Recovery from self-harm/self-cutting
• Grounded theory
• Stepped care systems
• Nursing people in acute mental distress

• Organisation and provision of maternity services and midwifery care

• Nursing workforce - registered nurses and health care support workers
• Patient and carer experiences
• Informal caregivers of older people

• Systematic reviews
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
• Evidence-based healthcare

• Leadership
• Change
• Teams
• Spiritually and ethically inspired leadership

• Health economics
• Economic evaluation
• National Health Service
• Performance evaluation in the acute sector
• Primary care groups

• Evidence-based healthcare
• Nurses' use of research information in their clinical decisions
• Research implimentation

• Osteoporosis
• Randomised trials
• Musculoskeletal problems
• Economic evaluation

• Economic evaluation alongside clinical trials
• Market access and reimbursement strategy
• Patient reported outcomes
• NHS financial flows (payment by results)

• Systematic reviews of cancer services
• Systematic review methodology

• Evidence-based healthcare
• Doctor/patient communication
• Primary care/general practice