Who’s Who
Adelina Comas-Herrera
Care Policy and Evaluation Cente, London School of Economics and Political Science, England
Adelina Comas-Herrera is an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow within CPEC at LSE and was co-lead of the STRiDE project. She is the Principal Investigator of the STRiDE England project and the Social Care COVID Recovery and Resilience research project. She led the LTCcovid.org initiative. Previously she was academic project manager of the Modelling Dementia (MODEM) research project which aimed to estimate the impact, in terms of costs and quality of life, of making interventions that are known to work for people with dementia and their carers more widely available by 2040. She has been a consultant for the WHO, working on the development of a tool for countries to self-evaluate their long-term care systems. She has previously worked on making projections of future long-term care expenditure for the UK and other countries, and also on evaluating the potential role of private insurance and private/public partnerships in long-term care financing.
Anji Mehta
Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, England
Anji Mehta is Centre Manager of the CPEC at LSE and Finance and Impact Manager within the NIHR School for Social Care Research. Over the last nine years, Anji has also been working on studies exploring knowledge exchange and impact for adult social care research, implementation of research, engagement of practice and policy in research processes, and the types and use of knowledge in decision-making.
Chiara De Poli
Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, England
Chiara is a researcher at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) at the London School of Economic and Political Science (LSE). Her interests are in applied health and social care research, in the design and evaluation of complex interventions, and in research ethics in the context of collaborative research involving vulnerable groups. With her team she has recently completed a five-year collaborative study with people with dementia and their families in the North-East of England (UK). Participants first identified the gaps in their local dementia care and support system and then co-designed two interventions to help address those gaps. The study facilitated the co-design and supported the implementation and evaluation of the interventions. Chiara is also a PhD candidate in Social Policy at the LSE. Her PhD work explores how collaborative approaches to research unfold in practice and their impact on policy making.
Clarissa Giebel
NIHR ARC NWC, Department of Primary Care and Mental Health, England
Dr Clarissa Giebel is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool and the NIHR ARC NWC, leading on national and international research into inequalities in dementia care. Her research looks at the barriers and facilitators of accessing and utilising post-diagnostic care in dementia, and she has led national COVID-19 social care studies on community-residing and care home-based people with dementia, their carers, and staff, which were subsequently rolled out across 5 countries.
Erica Breuer
University of Cape Town, England
Erica Breuer is a global health researcher with skills and expertise in mental health, health services research, monitoring and evaluation, programme management and theory driven evaluation. Since 2011, she has worked on the Programme for Improving Mental Health Care (PRIME) based at the Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health. She holds an MPH from the University of Cape Town and has recently submitted her PhD looking at the role of Theory of Change as an approach to designing and evaluating complex interventions in health care.
Jayeeta Rajagopalan
Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, England
Jayeeta Rajagopalan holds a BSc in Global Health and Social Medicine from King’s College London and an MSc in Global Health Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her key research interests include ageing and social care, mental health and measuring health system performance. She joined the STRiDE India team as an Early Career Researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences [NIMHANS] in 2020. In April 2022 she joined the Care policy and Evaluation Centre at the London School of Economics as part of the STRiDE England team.
Martin Knapp
Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, England
Martin Knapp is Professor of Social Policy and Professorial Research Fellow within CPEC at LSE. He is the Principal Investigator for the STRiDE project. He has also been Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research since 2009. His current research emphases are primarily dementia, child and adult mental health, autism and long-term social care; much of his work has an economic focus, and in all of it he seeks to tease out the policy implications. He has published almost 600 peer-review journal papers and 15 books. His work has had numerous impacts on policy and practice in these areas.