Chief Strategy Officer; UCLPartners, England

Dr Jenny Shand has expertise in forging collaborations across patient and community organizations, health and council partners, and the research and innovation system to identify opportunities for collaboration and joint work to transform outcomes in priority areas, alongside reducing inequalities. She leads the Learning Health System programme, the Evaluation and Insights team and provides strategic leadership to local and national partners, alongside securing funding to support delivery of the organization’s strategy.

Jenny is Associate Professor in Health Services and Population Research at UCL; Implementation lead at NIHR Applied Research Collaborative North Thames; Non-Executive Director at Care City, an innovation centre for healthy ageing and regeneration in East London; Director of the Care City Cohort, a unique ten-year individual-level linked dataset for residents of Barking and Dagenham in East London; and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

She holds a PhD in Health Economics and a masters in public health.