Programme Oversight Committee
The Programme Oversight Committee is responsible for oversight and approval of commissioning briefs recommended for research by the prioritisation committees. The group is also responsible for ratifying and ranking proposals recommended by the programme’s funding committees for submission to the Department of Health and Social Care for final decision and approval.
Chair
Professor Andrew Farmer - Director of HTA Programme, NIHR
Members
Professor Julia Brown - Director of Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Leeds
Professor Olivia Wu - William R Lindsay Chair of Health Economics | Director of HEHTA | Director of NIHR Complex Reviews Support Unit, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow
Professor Anthony de-Soyza - Professor of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Professor Marian Knight - Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health, University of Oxford
Dr Kamal Mahtani - GP & Deputy Director, Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, University of Oxford
Mr Richard Parnell - Public Contributor
Ms Gail Thornton - Public Contributor