Dr. Roger T. Webb is a Professor of Mental Health Epidemiology in the Division of Psychology and Mental Health at the University of Manchester. He received his B.A. in History and Politics from the University of Nottingham in 1990. He obtained, from the University of Manchester, his M.A. in Applied Social Research (1995), M.Sc. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics (2002), and Ph.D. in Medicine (Epidemiology) (2007). His research interests include the following: understanding the pathways to self-destructive, violent, and hazardous behaviour in young people; primary care patient safety for people who have harmed themselves; suicide risk among offender populations and in individuals who are violent or aggressive; determinants of suicide risk in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, and eating disorders; suicide risk in people diagnosed with major physical illnesses; and cause-specific mortality among infants and children whose parents have experienced mental illness.
Dr. Peter Bower is a Professor of Health Services Research and Chair in Health Sciences at the Division of Population Health, Health Services Research, and Primary Care, University of Manchester. He received his Ph.D. from St George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, in 1995. His main interests concern effective ways of improving the management of long-term conditions, with a focus on multimorbidity, the delivery of effective psychological therapies for common mental health problems, and the effective recruitment of patients to randomised trials.
Dr. Luke Munford graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2009 with first-class honours in Economics and Mathematics. After that, he obtained an M.Sc. in Economics and Health Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics, also at Sheffield, in 2010 and 2014, respectively. Dr. Luke joined the University of Manchester as a Research Associate in December 2013. He was then appointed to Research Fellow in November 2015, Lecturer in August 2019, and promoted to Senior Lecturer in August 2021. His research interests focus on applied health economics and microeconomics.
