People

pPOD is based between two sites; the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry and the Centre for Mental Health at Imperial College, London. The team comprises psychologists, psychiatrists and other doctors. It is jointly led by Dr Paul Ramchandani and Dr Susannah Murphy.

Current Research Team

Paul Ramchandani

Paul is a Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Imperial College London. He also works clinically as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in a busy clinic in Central London.

Susannah Murphy

Susannah is a senior postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. She completed a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford in 2007, funded by The Wellcome Trust, and an MSc in Neuroscience, also at Oxford University.

Lorraine Als

Lorraine is a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London. Her research at Imperial College has focused on the development of psychopathology in children and their parents following an acute episode of paediatric critical illness.

Beth Barker

Beth is a research assistant on the Healthy Start, Happy Start study.

Rajinder Ballman

Rajinder is a Clinical Psychologist working on the Healthy Start, Happy Start study. Her role includes supervising the interveners delivering the VIPP-SD programme to trial families.

Kirsten Barnicot

Kirsten Barnicot is an NIHR Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Imperial College London involved in both ACORN and Healthy Start, Happy Start.

Ellen Grimås

Ellen is currently working on the Healthy Start Happy Start study. Alongisde this role she is doing a PhD in Clinical Medicine, looking at coparenting behaviour as a risk factor in the development of child psychopathology.

Philippa Kemsley

Philippa is a research health visitor leading recruitment into the Healthy Start, Happy Start study in Islington and is also an intervener for the trial.

Marina Fabrega Ribera

Marina is a Koplowitz Fellow at Imperial College London. She also works as a honorary psychiatrist at Westminster CAMHS and as an intervener in the Healthy Start, Happy Start study.

Jane Iles

Jane is a Clinical Psychologist and works as a Research Associate at Imperial College London. She is currently working on the Healthy Start, Happy Start study in the Centre for Mental Health, Imperial College London.

Ruby Lee

Ruby is a research assistant on the Healthy Start, Happy Start study.

Christine O'Farrelly

Christine is a postdoctoral Trial Manager on the Healthy Start, Happy Start study. Her research interests include programme evaluation, research methods, infant mental health, and parental wellbeing.

Kike Olajide

Kike is a Wellcome Global Health Clinical Research Fellow at the Centre for Psychiatry.

Emily Pearson

Emily is a research assistant on the Healthy Start, Happy Start study. Emily leads recruitment in Camden and is an intervener for the trial.

Rachael Ryan

Rachael is a research assistant working on the Healthy Start, Happy Start study.

Eloise Stevens
Eloise is a Research Associate working on the Healthy Start, Happy Start study. Her role includes supervising the interveners delivering the VIPP-SD programme to trial families.