Prof Richard Lilford

Professor Richard Lilford has pursued a successful career in medicine for over 40 years, specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology and more recently, health service research. He has research methodological expertise in the evaluation of complex interventions and prospective health economic evaluations of service delivery interventions. He is also invested in global health research, including health and sanitation in low and middle-income countries, treatment and prevention of leprosy and Buruli ulcers, and improving health in slums.

Richard is also Director of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West Midlands (ARC WM), NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Improving Health in Slums, Director of NIHR RIGHT: Transforming the Treatment and Prevention of Leprosy and Buruli ulcers in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and Co-director of (NIHR) Midlands Patient Safety Research Collaboration (PSRC). In 2018 he was awarded a CBE in recognition of his services to health research.