Jenny Shand


Jenny Shand


UCL; England


Jenny has extensive healthcare experience in the UK and internationally, working to solve health systems knotty problems for population benefit, alongside reducing inequalities. Specific expertise in strategy development for health and care organisations, health systems, innovators and SMEs, and in the design and delivery of robust rapid evaluations and real-world evidence. Jenny is Associate Professor of Health Services and Population Research at UCL; Director of RSET (Rapid Service Evaluation Team), a team of health service researchers across UCL, Nuffield Trust and the University of Cambridge; Principal Investigator of major research programmes (The SPROCKET innovation Hub (Systems and Process Redesign and Optimisation at Childhood Key Events and Transitions), Mental Health Research for All (MH-
ALL), Improving Cancer Journeys); co-lead of KAILO, a systems approach to improving adolescent mental health; Data and Inequalities lead for the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Reproductive Health. She recently launched a new collaboration with YouTube Health to scale and enhance young people’s access to accurate mental health information online. Jenny is a Non-Executive Director at Care City, an innovation centre for regeneration and healthy ageing in East London; and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.