Jenny has extensive healthcare experience in the UK and internationally, working to solve health systems knotty problems for population benefit, alongside reducing inequalities. Specific expertise in strategy development for health and care organisations, health systems, innovators and SMEs, and in the design and delivery of robust rapid evaluations and real-world evidence.

 

Jenny is Professor of Applied Health Research at UCL; Director of RSET (Rapid Service Evaluation Team), a team of health service researchers across UCL, Nuffield Trust and the University of Cambridge; Principal Investigator of major research programmes (The SPROCKET innovation Hub (Systems and Process Redesign and Optimisation at Childhood Key Events and Transitions), Mental Health Research for All (MH-ALL), The DISCOVER Implementation study, Improving Cancer Journeys); co-lead of KAILO, a systems approach to improving adolescent mental health; Data and Inequalities lead for the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Reproductive Health. She leads a collaboration with YouTube Health to scale and enhance young people’s access to accurate mental health information online.

 

Jenny is Strategic Advisor to the Harley Street Health District, a Non-Executive Director at Care City, a health and care innovation centre in East London; and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.