Prof. Sonya Crowe

Operational research @ University College London

Sonya Crowe

Maths applied to healthcare: reflections from an operational researcher

In this talk, Prof Sonya Crowe will discuss opportunities for maths to improve the delivery of healthcare, drawing on her experience as an operational researcher. She is the Deputy Director of UCL’s Clinical Operational Research Unit, a team of researchers dedicated to applying operational research, data analysis and mathematical modelling to problems in health care. She has a PhD in physics and worked in the Government OR Services before joining CORU in 2009 from the Department of Health. She has worked on a wide range of projects relating to service delivery and innovation in health and social care, health protection policy and global health. In 2013 she was awarded a Health Foundation Improvement Science Fellowship. Her current interests include: combining quantitative and qualitative OR methods to improve services that span multiple sectors; linking national datasets to support quality improvement in services for congenital heart disease; applying OR and data analytics to operational problems in hospitals; and enhancing the effectiveness of OR in contributing to improvement.

90-10, 90-2